Alumni Help Desk → E-mail Clients

E-mail Client Configuration

General recommendations

For e-mail accounts on the Cyrus mailserver, we recommend the following client settings, using the IMAP protocol.

Incoming mail

Server name: username.mail.wesleyan.edu
Port: 993
Username: username
Secure connection: SSL
Secure authentication: No

Outgoing mail

Server name: username.post.wesleyan.edu
Port: 465
Username: username
Secure connection: SSL

If you prefer POP, the incoming port number is 995. The outgoing information is the same.

Is Your Account on Cyrus?

How can you tell? Accounts on Cyrus have a 100 MB quota. Graduates since 2005 will be on Cyrus. Accounts on alumni.wesleyan.edu have a 25 MB quota. Alumni from 2004 or earlier who have not yet elected to upgrade their accounts will be on alumni.wesleyan.edu. You can upgrade at any time.

Using a specific application

We have detailed instructions for the following e-mail clients:

• Apple Mail 2.1
• Eudora 7.0
• Gmail
• Microsoft Outlook 2003
• Microsoft Outlook Express
• Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5

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