The following screenshots and directions are for Outlook Express, specifically; however you can use the following settings to configure your Stark State email to work with any email client.

1. To access your Stark State Student email using an email client such as Outlook Express you must first enable POP in your Stark State Gmail Account.
   1. Log in to your student email account.
   2. Click the ‘Settings’ link.
   3. Click the ‘Forwarding and POP’ link.
   4. Select either the button labeled ‘Enable POP for all mail (even mail that has already been downloaded) or the ‘Enable POP only for mail that arrives from now on’
   5. Click the ‘Save Changes’ button.
2. Open Outlook Express.
3. Click the ‘Tools’ menu then click ‘Accounts…’ (Figure 1)

Figure 1

4. Once you click ‘Accounts…’ the Internet Accounts window will be displayed. Click ‘Add’ then click i (Figure 2)

Figure 2

5. This will start the Internet Connection Wizard. Enter the name that you want to be displayed in the “From” field of an Outgoing message. Click ‘Next’. (Figure 3)
   
   Figure 3
   
    
6. Enter your entire Stark State email address and click ‘Next.’ (Figure 4)
   
   Figure 4
    
7. Enter the following Email server names to configure your email client (see Figure 5):
   Incoming mail server: pop.gmail.com
   Outgoing mail server: smtp.gmail.com
   
   Click ‘Next.’
   
   Figure 5

8. Enter your account name (your full Stark State Email address) and password. If you would not like to be prompted for a password every time you send email, check the ‘Remember password’ check box. Click ‘Next.’ (Figure 6)
   
   Figure 6
    
9. Click ‘Finish.’ (Figure 7)
   
   Figure 7
    
10. After clicking ‘Finish’ you will be returned to the Internet Accounts window. Highlight the account labeled “pop.gmail.com” by clicking it. Then, click ‘Properties’ (Figure 8)
    
    Figure 8
     
11. From the ‘Properties’ window, click the ‘Advanced’ tab and complete the following steps. (Figure 9)
    1. Change the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server port number to 465.
    2. Check the box labeled ‘This server requires a secure connection (SSL)’
    3. Change the Incoming mail (POP) server port number to 995.
    4. Once again, check the box labeled ‘This server requires a secure connection (SSL)’
    5. Check the box labeled ‘Leave a copy of messages on server’.
    6. Click ‘Apply’ and click ‘OK’.

    
    Figure 9

You have just completed configuring your Stark State College email account to work through your remote email client. You can now send and receive email from your Stark State email account without having to log into your email account through the Stark State College Web site.