Technology UMDNJ email of for Droid?

[BMW19]

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Has anyone that has a Droid Incredible and a umdnj.edu email been able to get it directly on their phone!? I love the Incredible but I have not for the life of me been able to get my email on my phone. I called tech support and Verizon and they all give me the run around about how if you don't have the exact domain name, server and portal etc. then you can never get your email on your phone. This can't be right! Any suggestions?

BMW-

 

[deleted87716]

Yes, you do need to know the correct e-mail server address.

Sounds to me like you need to contact tech support at your school...or use a different e-mail address. You have an Android phone...might as well use GMail, since you've already sold your soul to Google. 😉

 

[BMW19]

well....I tried having it forwarded to my Gmail. But I ran into 2 problems:
1) once you forward it to Gmail it deletes all of your email on your actual inbox (not good)
2) you cannot reply from that server....i.e. if a higher up emails you you can only respond from your gmail label (I tried changing the settings so it responds from UMDNJ but it was a no go).

BMW-

 

[deleted87716]

If you're actually forwarding messages from one server to another, then no...the message won't be retained on the original server.

If you POP the server, however, you can choose to leave the messages on the server or delete them. This is what you should ask your school's tech support about.

As for responding to e-mail using the school's outgoing server, you would need to ask them about this, as well. Some organizations block outgoing e-mail through their server if the user is not actually connected to the network at the time (which is often the case with a cellphone).

 

[TMP-SMX]

Don't forward your mail to Gmail. Best-case scenario is if your med school has an exchange server. Otherwise IMAP will work fine too. Look on your school's tech support website or email them.

 

[J-Rad]

Might want to try looking around here:
http://www.umdnj.edu/istweb/istaccess/student/acs_emcfg.shtml

The hospital library where I work offers drop in tech support for PDAs/smart phones. Might want to see if theirs does as well.

 

[Neuronix]

If you POP the server, however, you can choose to leave the messages on the server or delete them. This is what you should ask your school's tech support about.

Gmail can POP the server for you automatically and bring the messages into your Gmail account. If you go into Settings -> Accounts and Import there's a section "Check mail using POP3". You can set that to leave a copy of the message on the original server as well.

That is if the school supports POP3... My med school only supports Kerberos enabled POP or IMAP, which almost no mail client actually supports. Everyone in the med school uses web mail and the idiots who run IT have told me repeatedly I'm the only one who complains about this 😕.

BMW19 I just forward my mail to Gmail and reply using my Gmail address. In the unusual case where I must use my med school's email (to email class mailing lists...), I webmail in. At first I was very hesitant to do it, but now I've realized that at least a quarter of my med school class does the same thing and using gmail is never an issue.