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POP3 Mail with Netscape 4.x Mac OS 8.x-9.x
Posted: 10:37 AM, Monday, February 10, 2003
Last Updated: 7:00 PM, Tuesday, June 30, 2009

POP, Post Office Protocol, can be thought of as a "store-and-forward" email service. When you using POP mail clients, your email messages are transferred from the email server to you computer's hard drive and unavailable for viewing or download from other computers.

Let us begin...

1. Start Netscape the way you normally do.

RELATED LINKS
- Download Netscape 4.7x
- Netscape IMAP Mail for Mac OS
- Outlook Express POP & IMAP
- Other Support Email Clients

2.Click on the Edit, then Preferences... Open Location

3. Open the Mail & Newsgroups field by clicking on the gray triangle and selecting the Identity field. The following window will appear: Preferences
4. In this window, enter the following:

- Your Name: Your Name Goes Here
- Email Address: Your email address at GW
(I am using ithelp@gwu.edu because that is my email address)
- Reply-to-address: This may be left blank
- Organization: The George Washington University

5. Next, click on Mail Servers in the left column and ... Adding Mail Servers
... set the following:
- Outgoing mail (SMTP) server: smtp.gwu.edu
- Outgoing mail server user name: use the first part of your email address.

SMTP Note: If you have your own ISP, you will need your ISP's SMTP server. Please contact your them for this information as you will not be able to send mail through GW's mail server.

6. Next, click on Add... in the upper right corner of the window above and a Mail Server Window will appear on your screen.


In this window, set the following:

- Server Name: pop.gwu.edu
- Server Type: POP
- User Name: Your User name

and click on OK. You are now done configuring Netscape to receive your email via POP. 		Mail Server Info

7. Getting your mail:

To get your mail, click on Communicator in the netscape pull down menu and select Messenger		 Starting Messenger to get Your Mail

8. Next, you will see this screen, asking you for your email password.

Enter your email password and click on OK to receive your email. 		Enter Password

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