Originally Posted by Taunton

If you have Microsoft Office, you can use Outlook and have email right on your desktop, which in my opinion is even better than Gmail. I use Outlook to manage 4 different accounts, and I can send from whichever one I want with a single click.

TEACH ME please! I just always click reply to some obscure mcmaster email to reply to. or is Outlook 2003 too ghetto for this?

Originally Posted by mcinside

So, I actually tried it out on my hotmail account and it does let me send emails through my Mac account, but the only thing is there's the "from [Mac account] sent on behalf of [hotmail account]" which I don't want appearing..I don't know how to fix that.. :S

See this:

Originally Posted by webzn

It does. Both headers are sent to the recipient, but it depends on the program/site they use to read their emails on how it appears.

The official Gmail blog post and information is here:

http://gmailblog.blogspot.co m/2009...s-without.html

i hav a mac email problem... i tried to sign in.. nd it won't let me enter my email.. i activated my MAC ID.. nd i also tried to reset my password buh it tellz me that the answerz to my security questionz are wrong.... i dunno wat to do...

Originally Posted by kanagaap

i hav a mac email problem... i tried to sign in.. nd it won't let me enter my email.. i activated my MAC ID.. nd i also tried to reset my password buh it tellz me that the answerz to my security questionz are wrong.... i dunno wat to do...

Did you also enable your MacID?

i activated my Mac ID.. iz it the same??

Originally Posted by kanagaap

i activated my Mac ID.. iz it the same??

No, activating and enabling isn't the same. I don't think so anyways. When you first log into mugsi on the right under quicklinks you'll see Enable My MacID services. Click on that. You should also note that it'll probably take 24hours before you can access your e-mail.

Originally Posted by mcinside

So, I actually tried it out on my hotmail account and it does let me send emails through my Mac account, but the only thing is there's the "from [Mac account] sent on behalf of [hotmail account]" which I don't want appearing..I don't know how to fix that.. :S

You need to have hotmail send through the McMaster servers. I don't know if that feature is available. It's just been made available in Gmail.

I find thunderbird is better (and free) than Outlook

Originally Posted by jmbauman

TEACH ME please! I just always click reply to some obscure mcmaster email to reply to. or is Outlook 2003 too ghetto for this?

Lol, I can show you. I prefer to teach computer stuff in person though, so if you want to meet up, just let me know.

Outlook 2003 is just fine!

Oh, and I've never bothered looking at Thunderbird... Outlook does a fantastic job and is a very powerful program. I've always had a copy of Office, so Outlook is just a natural choice for me.

Originally Posted by Taunton

If you have Microsoft Office, you can use Outlook and have email right on your desktop, which in my opinion is even better than Gmail. I use Outlook to manage 4 different accounts, and I can send from whichever one I want with a single click...

I'm starting to learn how to use Outlook, but the program isn't letting me add the McMaster email address. Any way to work around it?

Originally Posted by _Luu_

I'm starting to learn how to use Outlook, but the program isn't letting me add the McMaster email address. Any way to work around it?

Which version do you have?

Originally Posted by _Luu_

I'm starting to learn how to use Outlook, but the program isn't letting me add the McMaster email address. Any way to work around it?

Make sure you set up the correct settings:

email address: [email protected]muss.cis.mcmaster.ca

Account type: POP3

Incoming Mail server: muss.cis.mcmaster.ca
Outgoing mail server (SMTP): muss.cis.mcmaster.ca

Originally Posted by Taunton

Which version do you have?

I am using the 2007 version.

Originally Posted by Taunton

Make sure you set up the correct settings:

email address: [email protected]muss.cis.mcmaster.ca

Account type: POP3

Incoming Mail server: muss.cis.mcmaster.ca
Outgoing mail server (SMTP): muss.cis.mcmaster.ca

What I did was go to Tools, then Account Settings, then pressed New, and then checked the Manual config box. Then I changed the incoming and outcoming mail servers to what you listed, and the account type and email address was right.

However, the inboxes and folders aren't showing up in the mail folders section. I just ran a Test Account Settings for the mac email address, and it failed to send the test email.

Originally Posted by _Luu_

I am using the 2007 version.



What I did was go to Tools, then Account Settings, then pressed New, and then checked the Manual config box. Then I changed the incoming and outcoming mail servers to what you listed, and the account type and email address was right.

However, the inboxes and folders aren't showing up in the mail folders section. I just ran a Test Account Settings for the mac email address, and it failed to send the test email.

When you go to set up the account, click "more settings"

On the "outgoing server" tab, make sure you have "my outgoing server requires authentication" checked, and have "use the same settings as my incoming server" selected.

Then, go to the "advanced" tab, make sure you have the following settings:

Port: 995
"This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL)" - checked
Outgoing Server (SMTP) : 25
Use the following type of encrypted connection: TLS

Hopefully that will allow it to work.

I never had problems setting up my McMaster email with Outlook 2007... it just set everything up automatically for me.

Does anyone know how to setup this up on the Mail app in OS X?