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How To Check Your Email

Posted: 10:37 AM, Monday, Feb 10, 2003
Last Updated: 8:00 AM, Thursday, September 24, 2009

Select your email program under your operating system for set up instructions. If your favorite mail program is not listed, please see the generic IMAP and POP server settings below. IMAP is recommended.

	Mac OS	Windows
Apple Mail 2	Mail Using LDAP Service Archive Mail to Local Folders
Apple Mail 3	Pending (Leopard)
Blackberry	BlackBerry Internet Service	BlackBerry Internet Service
Colonial Mail	http://cmail.gwu.edu/	http://cmail.gwu.edu/
Entourage	Archive Mail to Local Folders Using LDAP Service
GWMail	http://mail.gwmail.gwu.edu/	http://mail.gwmail.gwu.edu/
iPhone	IMAP	IMAP
iPod touch	IMAP	IMAP
Netscape Mail	Official support ended in 2008. IMAP POP3 Subscribe Folders (IMAP) Archive Mail to Local Folders (IMAP)	Official support ended in 2008. IMAP POP3 Subscribe Folders (IMAP) Archive Mail to Local Folders (IMAP)
Outlook 2003		IMAP Using LDAP Service Subscribe Folders (IMAP) Archive Mail to Local Folders (IMAP)
Outlook 2007		IMAP
Outlook Express	IMAP POP3 Subscribe Folders (IMAP) Archive to Local Folders (IMAP)	IMAP POP3 Subscribe Folders (IMAP) Archive to Local Folders (IMAP)
Pine	Pine Download SSH	Pine Download SSH
Thunderbird 2	Pending	Pending
Windows Mail		Pending

Generic Mail Settings	Incoming IMAP Mail Server: `imap.gwu.edu` Incoming POP3 Mail Server: `pop.gwu.edu` Outgoing SMTP Mail Server: `smtp.gwu.edu`* *smtp.gwu.edu will not work from off campus until you first connect through the GW VPN. (You may alternatively replace smtp.gwu.edu with your ISP's SMTP server.)


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