How do I point a mail client at Microsoft outlook?

[Michael Hennebry]

On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Mike Williams wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Michael Hennebry
> <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
>> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 12:11 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>>> Alas still no go.
>>>> Now it asks me for a password, but it won't take it.
>
> You probably have something set wrong on your end.  Double check the
> server names, ports, and authentication.

The question is what?
The server names I cut and pasted.
The port numbers are right.
The options for authenticationn are password
and things I'd never heard or read about.

For the masochists, the data from which I am working is here:
http://www.ndsu.edu/its/help/index/mobile_devices/configuration/

I finally managed to read the "error box" from
when clicked on "Check for supported types":
"Querying server for list of suported authentication mechanisms."
I had to do a lot of fast clicking.

> If you can't get Evolution to play, try Thunderbird.  With either
> program, you will have to enter your password at least once and you

Is there a reason to expect Thunderbird to do better?
I have mmajor difficulties putting much effort
into something I expect not to work.

> At my school we switched to microsoft for email a while ago and there
> are two ways that I know of that work.
>
> The approach I took, since I do not care for outlook and I like gmail,
> was to use the web access to login to my email MS account and setup
> forwarding, so that all of my school email gets forwarded to my gmail

I've considered similar, but there are two problems:
The documentation seems to imply that if I do that,
I will lose the mail already in my inbox.
The described mechanism seems not to bethere.

> If you don't want use gmail then Thunderbird will work.  A professor

Gawd I hope so.

> that I work for uses Thunderbird on his home system and it works fine.
> As was mentioned in the discussion about Evolution you have to make
> sure you check the box for TLS and get the server settings right.
>
> One nice thing about using Thunderbird is that your messages get
> downloaded to your system so you can still get to the downloaded

I'd thought that all e-mail clients had that as an option.
No?

> Good luck,

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Michael   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
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Optimist:   The glass is half full.
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