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Requesting a Mass Mail Account

Before configuring the a mass mail account, you must request a mass mail account by emailing to massmail@uconn.edu.

Once you receive credentials for mass mailing from the e-mail team, you can use them to configure a new profile in Outlook and have it prompt you to select which profile to access: your mass mail profile or your normal outlook profile.

Setting Up the Mass Mail Account in a New Email Profile

  1. To set it up as a separate

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  1. profile, open Control Panel and click

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  1. Mail.

  2. Click

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  1. Show Profiles.

  2. Check

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  1. “Prompt for a profile to be used” and click add.

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  1. Enter the name of your mass mail account in an email format, appending “@appmail.uconn.edu” to the account name and then click OK.

  2. Select

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  1. Advanced options and Let me setup my account manually check box, and then

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  1. click Connect.

  2. After clicking ‘Connect’, Outlook may appear to do nothing for about 60 seconds. This is normal.

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7. In the Outlook dialog box, choose ‘IMAP’.

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8. In the IMAP Account Settings dialog box, enter the server information

Incoming mail

Server: appmail.uconn.edu

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  • Under Server Port Numbers, ensure that the incoming server (IMAP) is set to 993 and uses SSL as the type of encrypted connection.
  • Set the Outgoing server (SMTP) port number to 587 with TLS as the type of encrypted connection (data encrypted after sending) or port number 465 with SSL as the type of encrypted connection (data encrypted before sending)

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Port: 993

Encryption method: SSL/TLS

 

Outgoing mail

Server: massmail.uconn.edu

Port: 587

Encryption method: STARTTLS

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9. Click ‘Next

10. Provide the password for your mass mail account.

11. If you are unsure what the account password is, contact TSC.

12. When the Account is successfully added, click ‘Done’ and Close to exit the profile configuration.

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