Configuring Outlook Express for Your Barnard Email Account
Outlook express is provided free with Internet Explorer.
- Start Outlook Express. In the main, right panel, click on "Set up a Mail account..."
- The Internet Connection Wizard will appear. Type your name or the name you would
like people to see when they recieve mail from you. Click Next.
- Type your Barnard email address into the Email Address field. Click Next.
- Select "IMAP" from the drop-down list. The Incoming mail server (IMAP) should be eclipse.barnard.edu
and the Outgoing mail server (SMTP) should be send.columbia.edu. Click Next.
- In the "Account Name" field type your Barnard username, i.e. bb1234. Click Next.
- Click Finish.
- A dialog box will come up asking if you would "like to download folders from the email server you just added." Click No for now.
- You have successfully set up your account, but you now need to secure your connection or you will not be able to connect to the Barnard
and Columbia email servers. Click on Tools from the menu bar followed by "Accounts..."
- The Internet Accounts window should open. Select "eclipse.barnard.edu" in the Account column. Then click "Properties" on the right.
- Click on the Servers tab. Make sure "My server requires authentication" is checked. Next click on Settings on the lower right hand side of the window.
- Click on the radio button next to "Log on using". In the "Account name" field, type in your Barnard username, i.e. bb1234. Click OK.
- You will now be back at the Properties window for your account. Click on the Advanced tab.
- Next to Outgoing mail (SMTP), check the box next to "This server requires a secure connection (SSL)."
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- Next to Incoming mail(IMAP), check the box next to "This server requires a secure connection (SSL)."
- Make sure that the port number for the outgoing mail server is 587, not 25.
- Click OK, then Close.
Your folders should now automatically download from the server.