How do I point a mail client at Microsoft outlook?

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:57:45 -0500 Michael Hennebry
<hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Jun 2011, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> 
> > Two questions: are you sure you have an IMAP account set up? Reading
> > from here, it appears that the settings may be different:
> >
> > http://www.ndsu.edu/its/help/index/e_mail/ndsu_outlook/non_supported_e_mail_software_setup/imap/
> 
> I noticed that.
> There is also this:
> http://www.ndsu.edu/its/help/index/mobile_devices/configuration/
>
> > E-mail Configuration
> >
> > For specific device setup instructions refer to your mobile device
> > owners manual or check with your service provider.
> >
> > General configuration settings:
> >
> >     * 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
> 
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2011, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > Also, I assume you want to fetch e-mail first and use a mailer
> > separately. Is this true? If not, you can forget about fetchmail and
> > have claws-mail or thunderbird or sylpheed or something else do it for
> > you. I am a latecomer to this thread, so do not know if you mentioned
> > this earlier.
> 
> I want to do whatever ends with my mail on my machine.
> So far, nothing likes me.

Interesting that there are two sets of instructions: assuming both are
correct, I guess we shall proceed. So what do you use for reading your
e-mail? 

Ranjan