1. Double-click on your Outlook Express icon.
2. Open the Tools menu and select Accounts.
3. Click on the mail tab.
4. Click Add and select Mail.
5. Type in a display name and click Next.
6. Select " I already have an e-mail address I would like to use" and enter your Hillsdale
   College e-mail address and click Next.
7. For the incoming server type, select IMAP from the pull down menu.
8. For the incoming mail server type mail.hillsdale.edu
9. For the outgoing mail server type mail.hillsdale.edu
10. Click Next.
11. Now enter your student logon name and password. These were given out during registration. -- If you do not have one, you will need to stop at the I.T.S. office (Lower Level Knorr Center) and pick one up and then click Next.
12. Click Finish.
13. Make sure your new email account is selected and click Properties.
14. Click the Servers tab.
15. Check the box for "My server requires authentication."
16. Click OK.
17. Next Close the Accounts dialog box.
18. You will then be asked to download folders from the server. Click Yes.
19. You have the option of displaying or hiding certain folders. Once things are set the way you want them, click OK.

You have now setup your student e-mail account on your computer. You may now check your e-mail by simply double clicking on the Outlook Express icon. You will now see a new mailbox (mail.hillsdale.edu) in your folder list on the left. This is your student e-mail account. Please note, when you delete an item in Outlook Express it places a strike through the message, but does not delete it until you hit the purge button. Your email box may take up to 50 mb of space. See Managing Mailbox Size for more details.

Note that for those living off campus it is not possible to SEND (i.e. use the college's SMTP server) from off campus. You MAY be able to send using your ISP's SMTP server (i.e. mail.comast.com).
You will need to contact your ISP for details about that server's name and how to authenticate.