The new email system is a POP (Post Office Protocol) system. This means that the school provides a server that stores your email until you access it. When you access your email, the email is downloaded to your individual computer and deleted from the school’s server. The good side of this system: once you’ve accessed your email, you can read those messages without an Internet connection. The bad side of this system: if you use lots of different computers across campus to access your email, your messages will be scattered across the different computers.

In order to access your email, you’ll need to install an email client on your computer. This software provides the link between your computer and the school’s email server. There are lots of these clients-- Outlook Express, Eudora, Netscape Messenger—just to name a few. Information Technologies doesn’t endorse or support any one of these, but, in the interest of being helpful, step-by-step instructions for Outlook Express will be provided.