Free Personalized Princeton E-mail
Accounts
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Princeton residents can have as many as five (5) personalized E-mail
accounts. Each account will have addresses of the form:
MyAccount@princeton-ma.us
Use the
Subscription form to
request your personal account(s). You'll receive an E-mail notification
when it has been established.
To request
additional E-mail accounts, use the
Subscription form. Just
designate your submission as a change order. |
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MyAccount can be any
reasonable string of letters, numbers or characters.
- No FirstNameOnly
addresses.
- Instead of "johnandjane",
you may use "john-jane". Don't use "&".
- No blank spaces.
Use separators such as
" .
" or " -
" or " _
".
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After subscribing,
here's how to set
up
your Princeton E-mail account.
www.princeton-ma.us/webmail.
Usernames
are NOT case sensitive. ( i.e., MyName
=
myname )
Passwords ARE
case sensitive. ( i.e., worcester ≠
Worcester )
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Mailbox
Quota
Each mailbox
has been allocated 100 Mb of storage space.
Contact
Customer Service if you find an
increase necessary. |
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Forgot your password? Just point here. |
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Particularly if you use Webmail rather than Outlook, you might want
to change some of the General Options, i.e., local time zone,
etc.
Use
the E-mail Forwarding option if you want your Princeton E-mail to be
forwarded to another E-mail system ( i.e., AOL, Yahoo, your business,
etc. ).
Set
Keep a copy of the forwarded messages to
NO. If you
unnecessarily keep copies of forwarded messages, you will be
consuming limited storage space. This might limit operation of your
E-mail account.
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Under
E-mail Filters, SpamAssassin and Antivirus have been activated for
all E-mail accounts. You may change these settings.
We recommend that you use a Junk Mail folder to capture (for up to
14 days) blocked messages. This gives you a chance to retrieve any
that you consider not to be spam. You can add those addresses to a
While List.
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How to use your
Princeton E-mail to compose and retrieve messages
Messages sent
to your Princeton E-mail account are directed over the internet to a mail server located
in Waltham, MA. You can either view and manage your
messages there ( using webmail ) or download your messages to your PC ( using MS
Outlook ).
These two methods for using your Princeton E-mail account are
described below:
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To import an address book,
use the CSV Import/Export link under the Address Book tab.
The
.csv
file must be in the format:
<name1>;<email1>,
or <name2>,<email2>
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Webmail
—
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Login
using the procedure described above in the How to set up your
Princeton E-mail account paragraph.
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The Inbox,
Compose and Address Book are straightforward.
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For further assistance, use the
Help tab.
MS Outlook, Thunderbird other E-mail clients and devices such
as smartphones & IPads —
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An E-mail
client, such as MS Outlook ( or Outlook Express ), connects with the mail server, downloads your messages to your PC and
provides a path to send messages.
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Instructions for setting up Outlook are available from Microsoft. They
should be in the Help section of your PC.
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Set up the
following parameters:
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Incoming
mail is a POP3 server. Do not use IMAP as this will
leave messages on the server and, eventually, exceed your account's
quota.
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Incoming
mail (POP3): mail.hoster906.com. Use port 110.
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Outgoing
mail (SMTP): mail.hoster906.com. Use port 587.
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If you wish to
connect over SSL/TLS you must replace both the
incoming and outgoing mail server hostnames in the mail
application (i.e., Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.) with mail.hoster906.com
rather than mail.princeton-ma.us. Also, select
TLS for the type of encrypted connection in the
Advanced settings (i.e., in Outlook).
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Also, replace the hostnames if
you get a message like "CANNOT VERIFY
SERVER IDENTITY. The identity of mail.princeton-ma.us cannot be verified".
This is more likely with Apple Mail.
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Account
name: My Account
( your Princeton E-mail account name )
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Password:
Your Princeton E-mail account password
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More
Settings / Outgoing Server:
My outgoing server (SMTP) requires
authentication and Use the same settings as the incoming
mail server should be checked.
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More Settings /
Advanced: Leave a copy of messages on the server
should be unchecked or you will eventually exceed your account's
quota.
Note:
Your E-mail messages will remain on the princeton-ma.us mail server
until you select "Send/Receive" from MS Outlook. Thus, you can use
Webmail from any browser to check your messages ( i.e., when you travel,
etc. ).
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