The school server is capable of sending and receiving
email from teachers at home assuming of course the
teacher has some kind of Internet connectivity. There are two methods supported. The easy way, and the harder but more similar to the School Mail client way.
The Easy Way
This method is usable from anywhere there is a web browser. Simply click on:
That will result in this web page. Use your school login and password to get a web mail version of your email.
Or, find the school web page from anywhere, and click on the link in the lower left hand concern for Extranet/Webmail.
The More Complex but Similar to School Client Thunderbird Method
The steps to do this are similar to many of the steps
taken with a regular ISP account and require some
knowledge of the "lingo" of email accounts.
If you are the resident "techie" in the home, the school is
running a SSL protected IMAP and SMTP-AUTH with TLS based email system
requiring user authentication for both sending and receiving
email with a server name of school.blsacrament.org and standard
ports for the above. If you have perhaps another source of techie speak,
they will know what that means.
If you do not have that resident techie or know what that means
you can follow these pictures of a setup using the recommended Mozilla Thunderbird
as an email client but mainly because the excellent Mozilla Firefox
browser comes from the same folks. A USB keychain is available in the office or you
can download the software at the link provided here.
Here are the steps for Thunderbird once you install it. Other email clients you can contact me
or try to gather the settings needed from this email.
Run the Email Account Wizard
Once you install and run Thunderbird the account wizard will come up.
The Mail Account Wizard will come up if the first time run
Enter your Name and Account Name which will be your
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Pick IMAP as the server type
IMAP is a "protocol" that email programs speak. Its main advantage
is that it allows cleaner use from multiple computers which is
what you are doing here. Fill in the same server name school.blsacrament.org for both Incoming and Outgoing.
Fill in your school username
We require the same username and password that you use at the school
to access your IMAP email.
Give the Account a Nice Name
This is just the label on the left hand side of Thunderbird. I tend to use "School Mail" but if you have lots of email accounts, use whatever you would like.
Congrats you made it this far!
Confirm that you entered the information correctly. Obviously username
should be your school username.
Now a few tricky parts...
When you hit "Finish" the first thing you will likely get is this:
This is because you need to turn on SSL (security) in IMAP to talk to
our server. This is done as follows. Click the "OK" and then click the
"School Mail" line over in the left hand box above "Local Folders".
When you do you should get the Email settings window as such:
Click on "View settings for this account" and then "Server Settings" and
you will get this screen:
Simply make the check box active in "Use secure connection (SSL)".
Setting SMTP TLS Support
One more step to make the use of the sending part of email secure.
Click on the "Outgoing Server (SMTP)" and you should see:
Simply move the radio button over to TLS.
WARNING: Many ISPs block what is called outgoing SMTP. You may have to contact me for suggestions on ways to be able to send email from this class of ISP. This is not a school problem but I will help you work around efforts to fight spammers.
You are done!
Now check it by both checking your Inbox and sending an Email.
It should ask you for a password both times. You can save the
password if you would like. Thunderbird does a fairly reasonable job of saving passwords. Ideally you might make your School password a little better at this point.
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