Any tips on setting up an @mail.edu account?

[Delta_Sigma_Pi]

Okay so this is my school email address (very important) and we use Google apps so it should not be too hard.

Any way, I keep getting a message of "connection error"

Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong here?

 

[bigboss]

Why not have your. Edu email forwarded to gmail? That's what i've been doing for the past couple of yrs

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[gtmci84s]

I have a .edu account for school/work. I just called the college's IT department ant they gave me all of the server names and told me exactly what I needed. Most of the employees who have their mail forwarded to their phones here use blackberry and I'm pretty sure the smtp (Outgoing server, I think that's what it's called) is different for BB than Android because I tried using the same settings as my co-workers BB and it didn't work. I got lucky though, the guy I got a hold of had a droid. Anyway, call IT.

 

[gtmci84s]

Why not have your. Edu email forwarded to gmail? That's what i've been doing for the past couple of yrs

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I didn't have mine forwarded to g-mail because when you reply to one that was forwarded doesn't it say it's from @gmail.com instead of your .edu when the person your replying to gets it? If that's the case It would go directly into person's spam box if I was replying to someone I work with and they most likely would never see it.

 

[Delta_Sigma_Pi]

Thanks, i'll call the IT department later on today.

Hopefully it won't be too difficult

 

[Topweasel]

I didn't have mine forwarded to g-mail because when you reply to one that was forwarded doesn't it say it's from @gmail.com instead of your .edu when the person your replying to gets it? If that's the case It would go directly into person's spam box if I was replying to someone I work with and they most likely would never see it.

I believe the trick is to set up a Gmail account specifically for this .edu account and any response back from that address can be configured to have your .edu address as the from.

 

[kpageisgreat]

I believe the trick is to set up a Gmail account specifically for this .edu account and any response back from that address can be configured to have your .edu address as the from.

That is true, I did it a few times but I forgot all about it since I graduated.

 

[Delta_Sigma_Pi]

I called the IT department and they walked me through it. Quite simple actually

 

[Delta_Sigma_Pi]

I just had to enable IMAP in my Gmail, and then utilize the correct configurations.