Safe Computing

Your Case email account is created when you enroll as a student or are hired as staff or faculty. You may already have an email account you like and use, however the Case Account is listed in the On-line directory and readily available to the Case Community. It is preferred that if you do not check your Case email, you have it forwarded to an address you do check regularly. How can you check your Case email? Here at Case there is no one right way to check your email. Pick the method listed below which works best for you!

So, how do I do this?

Warning! switching an email program from POP to IMAP may result in loss of old email messages! If you plan on changing an exsiting email program from POP to IMAP, back up your email first!

There are two ways to check your Case Email:

Set up an Email Program on your computer.
- Eudora for Windows
- Eudora for Macintosh
  Note: Eudora can be set up for multiple users: Windows instructions • Macintosh instructions
- Outlook
- Outlook Express
- Netscape Communicator
- Macintosh OS X Email
- Microsoft Entourage for the Macintosh
Use the Case Email webpage http://mail.case.edu Current Students, Staff and Faculty only!

POP vs. IMAP

All current students, staff and faculty have a choice between using POP email and IMAP for their Case email. What's the difference between the two?

POP	IMAP
The Old method, Post Office Protocol	The New Method, Internet Messaging Access Protocol
Best if you only use only one computer to check email	Best if you use many different computers to check your email
Downloads your email to the particular computer you are checking it on	Your mail is always on the server
Allows you to keep a large backlog of email messages only limited by the size of your computer.	You are limited by your mailbox size quota for how many messages you keep, though you can archive old messages and save them onto your computer manually.
Does not have a web interface (Some webmail companies, such as Yahoo, will let you check POP mail)	Has a web interface
New messages are downloaded in their entirety, you have to wait for the message to download.	New message headers are downloaded so you see all your mail faster, the message you want to read is not downloaded to your computer until you click on it.