Using Other Email Clients to Access Groupwise E-mail Accounts

If you want to use your own, outside e-mail system, you can use the directions below to configure your system to retrieve your Pacific Groupwise e-mail.

You can use software packages that meet the specifications of a "POP3 Client" to view and send email to and from your Pacific Groupwise email account.

All email client programs require the same basic information for configuration, but the interface for each application, or even a different version of the same application, will vary.  A POP3 client will typically need to know the following information:

• POP3 Server Name/Host Name: This is the DNS (Domain Name Server) name or IP (Internet Protocol) address of the POP3 Server host machine. This is the machine where the GroupWise Internet Agent is installed.  The host name is pop.dental.pacific.edu
   
• User ID: This is the users' GroupWise User ID (user@pacific.edu). You can add options to your User ID. There are several options you can use to control how the POP3 Server handles your e-mail messages.  For example you can limit how many messages you want downloaded for each session (accessing e-mail).  For example: in order to get e-mail messages only from the past one day:

User@pacific.edu t=1 (Note space between EDU and t)

• Password: This is the users' existing GroupWise password.  It is not a new password, a POP3 client-specific password, a NetWare password or any network server password.  The GroupWise password should have already been defined.  POP3 requires that you have a password defined in your GroupWise system for any user that wants to use the POP3 Server.
   
• SMTP Server (outgoing mail): Some systems will ask for the server address or name of the server to be used for outgoing mail.   Typically this is the mail server of the Internet Service Provider (ISP) that you are using. For instance, if your ISP is Mindspring, the outgoing server name might be "mail.mindspring.com"

• Automatic Email Check Interval:  This defines how often the email program checks the Groupwise mail server for new e-mail.  Should be set to 10 miunutes or longer.

You should always refer to the product documentation and help menu of  individual email client for further details on POP3 configuration.