E-mail

When you first start Thunderbird, you should be greeted with a configuration wizard. You can set up your e-mail address using the wizard using the following settings:

• E-mail address: [your Purdue e-mail address]
• Incoming Server Type: IMAP
• Incoming Server: [your career account login].mail.purdue.edu
• Outgoing Server Type: SMTP
• Outgoing Server: smtp.purdue.edu

After finishing the wizard, right click on your account name on the left and click "Properties". Go to "Server Settings" and under "Security Settings" click "TLS". Then go to "Outgoing Server (SMTP)" and click "Edit" on the right. Click TLS again, and change the port to 587. Click "Ok" twice. You should be able to login to your e-mail address now as well as send e-mail.

Newsgroups

You should also create a newsgroup account, which should be helpful when you have a question to ask. Create a newsgroup account and do the following:

• Fill in your name and e-mail address and click "Next."
• Use news.cs.purdue.edu for the newsgroup server and click "Next" twice and "Finish."
• Click on news.purdue.edu at the bottom of the left column.
• Click "subscribe to newsgroups"
• Find "purdue.class.cs190m" and click "Subscribe."

Computer Science E-mail

You may not know about this, but you have a departmental e-mail address ([CS login]@cs.purdue.edu) that you should be checking. The easiest way to do that is to simply have your e-mail sent to this account forwarded to your Purdue e-mail. To do this, simply open a terminal and type in "mailer forward me to [e-mail address here]" and the e-mails will start being forwarded over night.