To receive your Email sent to
@aem.umn.edu,
this is what you should know.
(note: you are required to read your email as a condition of maintaining an account with us)
Note - By default, all mail for the above domains is forwarded to the corresponding accounts @umn.edu (unless you have changed that)
If your mail is not already forwarded - you should consider setting up the forward now and start reading your mail there.
The instructions below are our OLD instructions if you keep mail on our mail server.
The server name is: imap.enet.umn.edu
Enet recommends using IMAP with TLS, on port 143 (Mozilla, Seamonkey, Thunderbird, Netscape 7+, Eudora 6.1+) .
If you have an older email client that does not support TLS but uses the older SSL protocol, use port 993 (iPOD/iPhone, Old Netscape [6 or less]).
If you use the MS Outlook/Outlook Express email client set the port to 143 with SSL checked (it will actually use port 993).
Advantages: IMAP clients can access multiple mail "folders". The server notifies your client immediately of new messages (the check interval is a backup and should be set to 15 minutes). IMAP clients can be configured to keep an offline copy of all messages (the primary copy is always the one on the server).
The server name is: smtp.enet.umn.edu
Enet recommends using TLS, on port 587 (Mozilla, Seamonkey, Thunderbird, Netscape 7+, Eudora 6.1+) .
If you have an older email client that does not support TLS but uses the older SSL protocol, use port 465 (iPOD/iPhone, Old Netscape [6 or less]).
If you use the MS Outlook/Outlook Express email client set the port to 25 with SSL checked (it will actually use port 465).
The mail server supports authentication from anywhere (with your AEM/Enet unix username and password) but REQUIRES TLS/SSL be turned on before it will allow authentication.
Increasing numbers of Internet providers are blocking the OLD SMTP port 25. We suggest you DON'T use it.
For incoming e-mail - Enet recommends you DO NOT use POP as it will remove all your messages from your inbox. with IMAP you can do EVERYTHING pop can do (IMAP is a newer protocol), including read mail offline.
The server name is: pop.enet.umn.edu
It supports TLS connections on the native port (110).
It supports SSL connections on the alternate port (995).
It DOES NOT support Non-SSL POP (port 110).
WARNING - POP clients generally download and delete all the mail in the INBOX on the mail server when they connect to it. POP does not support multiple mail folders on the server (just the INBOX).
For other questions, problems, or support see the Enet Staff page