How do I point a mail client at Microsoft outlook?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 21:47 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 17:39 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> >> Alas, I expect not.  We are rapidly becoming a Windows-only shop.
> >> I have my doubts they actually know.
> >> I'm pretty sure Microsoft has the actual mail.
> >> Supposing they do know, neither evolution nor
> >> KMail is on their list of approved clients.
> >> How should I phrase the question to avoid explicitly mentioning a client?
> >
> > Ask them how to access your mail from your smartphone. If you don't have
> > one just pretend you're evaluating which one to get.
> 
> Thank you for that suggestion.
> It turns out that they have just that information on their website.
> I was wrong about POP:
>      * Account type: IMAP
>      * Incoming mail server: imap.ndsu.nodak.edu
>      * Incoming mail server encryption: SSL on port 993
>      * Outgoing mail server: smtp.ndsu.nodak.edu
>      * Outgoing mail server encryption: TLS on port 587
>      * Username: Your NDSU Electronic ID
>      * Password: Your NDSU Password
> 
> That said, I still can't do it.
> evolution tells me
> evolution-mail-Message: Error occurred while existing dialogue active:
> Could not connect to imap.ndsu.nodak.edu: Connection timed out

Looks very standard and Evo (or TBird) should be able to handle it.
There's nothing MS specific in that config info. Are you sure you've set
up the ports as specified? Could there be an authenticated password
step? To check from Evo, go to Edit->Preferences-><account
name>->Receiving Email and click "Check for supported types" under the
Authentication Types heading.

poc