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Accessing Legacy Email from Home

 

Legacy Email System is available to Undergraduate Students admitted before September 2010

Users with legacy email accounts can still access them through SMUport or through a client on their computer. These accounts are being phased out, with end-of-life scheduled for October 2015.

If you choose to access your email through a mail client such as Outlook, Eudora or Thunderbird, this page will provide you with the information you need in order to configure your computer to receive email.

Saint Mary's Legacy System enables users to select between IMAP and POP3 service.

POP3: Recommended if you want to access your email from one computer. It downloads messages from the server and saves them on your hard drive.

IMAP: Recommended if you want to access your email from more than one computer. Messages stay on the Saint Mary's server and you view them remotely. This allows you to synchronize inboxes on different computers.

Email Account Information
Server Type POP3 or IMAP
Incoming Mail Server pop3.smu.ca or imap.smu.ca
Outgoing Mail Server* Eastlink: smtp.eastlink.ca
Aliant: smtp.ns.aliantzinc.ca
Sympatico: smtp1.sympatico.ca
AOL: smtp.aol.com
Username Your s#. Don't know it?
Password Your password.

* These may change without notice. If you experience problems with sending email, or your Internet Service Provider is not on this list, we recommend that you contact your ISP for assistance.

Tutorials for Common Email Clients

There are dozens of email programs on the market or still in use today. We have provided links to tutorials for adding email accounts in various clients. Most email programs also have comprehensive help indexes, which can usually be accessed by pressing F1 while in the client. Searching for "add email account" in the help index will usually get you the information that you need.

 


This page last modified Tuesday, 19-Jul-2011 14:14:17 ADT