Seminary Computing Services

An email client is a program that is installed on your computer, which communicates with an email server (such as Earlham's). In the 'classical' email system, you would use a client to download mail onto your computer; in the brave new world of 'Web 2.0', many web-based email clients (GMail, Yahoo, etc.)  can download email from remote servers directly, allowing you to access your email all in one place. Note that this is one way to work around the current problems with automatic forwarding in WebMail.

The two pieces of information that you'll need to set up the Earlham mail server in your email client are:

• the server name: mailer.earlham.edu.
• your Earlham/seminary username (the part of your email address before the @).

The details of exactly how you go about setting things up depend on your client program. Here are directions for a few common systems:

Mozilla Thunderbird

1. Click Tools > Account Settings.
2. Click "Add Account"
3. Select "Email account" and click Next.
4. Fill in your name and Earlham/Bethany email address; click Next.
5. Select "POP"* for the type of server, and fill in the mail server address given above (mailer.earlham.edu) in the "Incoming Server" field; click Next.
6. Fill in your Earlham/seminary username for the Incoming User Name; click Next.
7. Set the Account Name as you lie; click Next, then Finish.
8. Click the "Get Mail" button in the upper left corner; enter your password when prompted.

Google Mail (GMail)

1. Click "Settings" in the upper right corner of the GMail window.
2. Click "Accounts".
3. Click "Add a mail account you own".
4. Enter your @earlham.edu email address in the "Email address" field, then click Next Step.
5. Enter your password, and set any other settings as you like (if you still want to see your mail in WebMail, check the "Leave a copy of retrieved messages on the server" box.
6. Click "Add Account".
7. Click "Next Step" if you'd like to send mailfrom your Earlham account within GMail (if you're not interested in this, select "No" and click "Finish").
8. Set your 'real name' to whatever you'd like, and click "Next Step".
9. Click "Send Verification".
10. Log into WebMail to find the verification message from Gmail, and click the link found therein.

Yahoo Mail

1. Click "Options" in the
   upper right corner at the top of your Yahoo! inbox. Choose “Mail
   Options” from the drop-down menu.

2. Click "Mail Addresses".

3. Click "Add".

4. Enter a name for your Earlham
   email account. (For example: Earlham, EC Webmail, School) and then
   click continue in the lower left corner of the page.

5. Enter your name into the “Name:”
   field. Whatever you enter in the “Name:” field is what will
   appear in “From:” field on the emails you send. Enter your
   @earlham.edu email address in the "Email:" field, then
   click Continue.

6. In the field titled “Mail
   Server:”, you need to enter: mailer.earlham.edu. Then input your
   username and password into the appropriate fields.

7. At the bottom of this page you'll
   see a list of check boxes under the title of “Options”. You need
   to make sure they are all unchecked.

8. Click "Setup Mail Address”

9. Check your Earlham email address
   through squirrelmail for an authorization email from Yahoo!. Click
   the link sent in the email and it will open up a new webpage. Click
   continue to authorize Yahoo! to download your email.

* The Earlham mail server also supports IMAP; only use this if you know what you're doing!