LEVEE to GMail remote access
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LEVEE is our ever popular e-mail server and it works great for most people
on campus. However, off campus, people want to retrieve their LEVEE mail,
so you can use our own webmail facility on LEVEE, or you can do what I tell
most people, use a free GMail account to access your LEVEE mail. Using GMail
is also a great way to use Eudora/Thunderbird or even Outlook from off campus
and is actually more secure than using the university provided
mechanisms.
GMail actually provides a nice repository to store all your e-mail and is much
more robust than using either LEVEE or the ArtSci system. Would you rather use
our sad little five year old $5,000 Sun upstairs, ArtSci's aging $100,000 Sun
system over at West Campus, or Google's multi-billion dollar multiply located
datacenters distributed around the country for your e-mail?
Reading Your E-Mail remotely using a GMail Account
The first thing many people want to do is read their e-mail remotely. To do
this from GMail, you must first set it up to grab a copy of your LEVEE mail.
- Sign up for a free GMail account and login.
- Click on Settings and click on the tab that says Accounts
- Look for the entry that says "Get mail from other accounts" and
click the link that says "Add a mail account you own".
- You will see a pop-up where you will need to add your e-mail address (name@levee.wustl.edu), and then click Next.
- Enter your username, your LEVEE password, and for POP Server use
levee.wustl.edu (NOT mail.levee.wustl.edu!).
Leave the port number as
110 and check the box to Leave a copy of retrieved message on the server. Do NOT check the secure connection (SSL) box and you can label the messages if
you like.
- It will ask you if you want to be able to send mail as that user and you should go ahead and say Yes
- If you did say Yes to send mail as your LEVEE account, select to use
GMail's mail server NOT our SMTP server.
We certainly are not a professional domain!
- Ask GMail to send you a verification e-mail message which will contain a link you can click on to verify your address
- Once you click on the link in the mail message or enter the verification
code from the message your account should be set
Using Eudora/Thunderbird/Outlook to Read Your LEVEE/GMail mail
Once you have setup your GMail account to grab all of your LEVEE mail,
you can use any POP3 compliant mail client to grab your mail from GMail. In
your GMail account, go into Settings and select Forwarding and POP/IMAP and make sure POP Download is Enabled for all mail that arrives
from now on. You can also decide whether to leave the mail in you
GMail account's Inbox, archive them, or to delete them once your PC has grabbed
the messages. You can find instructions on setting up your client to grab mail
from GMail by looking at their
online instructions. This will also allow you to send mail through GMail
and the messages can be sent as your username@levee.wustl.edu address.
That means you can leave your Reply-To: address as your WUSTl address and GMail
should happily accept it.
Hugh Chou,
hugh@levee, Room 289, 5-4012
(add .wustl.edu to the e-mail address if e-mailing from off campus!)
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