Getting Connected
Getting Connected
Information about your UST email account, Outlook, Entourage, and accessing your UST email from off campus...
The University of St. Thomas provides faculty, staff, and students with a UST account when they become part of the St. Thomas community. With this account comes access to an email account provided by the University. Email is an important means of communication on campus. Email is used for the Bulletin Today, administrative messages, timely updates, messages from professors and other students, as well as mail from family and friends.
Depending on the computer you are using there are several different applications that you can use to access your email account. IRT supports the following Applications:
Outlook - full Client and Outlook Web Access (OWA)
EntourageThe full version Outlook email client will work for faculty, staff, or student employees logging onto PCs that are joined to the UST domain.
Once logged in, open the Outlook application, your PC will connect to the email server (Exchange) and map your account profile automatically.
Outlook allows you access to your UST email mailbox, Outlook Calendar, Deleted Items folder, Sent Items, etc... Any folders created by individual users inside of his/her mailbox will be preserved on Exchange, and may be accessed on any PC running the full version of Outlook, any Mac running Entourage, or through Outlook Web Access (OWA).
All members of the UST community with a Net ID and password may use OWA to read/send email. See OWA for information on using Outlook Web Access.
For individuals with Macintosh computers, Entourage will need to be mapped on your computer with your Net ID account information before it can be used to send/read email. If you need assistance mapping an Entourage account on your Mac, please contact the IRT Tech Desk.
Entourage synchronizes email from Exchange onto the local Mac. This means email can be available to Entourage users even if the Mac is not online or even connected to the UST network.
For privacy and security reasons, it is recommended that Mac users who share a terminal use Outlook Web Access (OWA) rather than Entourage to check their email.
All members of the UST community with a Net ID and password may use OWA to read/send email. See OWA for information on using Outlook Web Access.
Outlook Express and POP/IMAP mail clients
POP mail applications are not supported by IRT because they completely remove all messages in a given mailbox from the Exchange environment onto a local computer.
IMAP email applications like Mozilla Thunderbird, Outlook Express, and Mac Mail are also not supported by IRT. However if you wish to use an IMAP application, here is some information that may help you get connected:
Email Address Your UST email address IMAP (incoming) Server Name mail.stthomas.edu SMTP (outgoing) Server Name exchange.stthomas.edu Account Name Your UST Net ID username Password
Your UST Net ID password
It is recommended that you choose not to have an IMAP email program remember your password, because you will need to change this setting every 120 days when your password expires.
