Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Accessing WGU Email Outside of the WGU Portal

UPDATE 4/25/2011 

WGU started using GMail some time last year so the post below will no longer work.  You can set up your WGU GMail account on your smart phone or other device by using your WGU email address and the regular settings for GMail.  I hope this clears up some of the confusion. 

Cheers!
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I have copied this information about accessing your WGU email outside of the WGU Student Portal from a thread on the the WGU Student Hall.

The following information is a quote by WGU Student Hall user Keith:

For what it's worth, I use SMTP and POP (not IMAP) to access my WGU mail, via Outlook. It's just set up as another "POP" style account. 

Incoming mail server: mymail.wgu.edu.
Outgoing mail server: mymail.wgu.edu. 

The port settings are standard (110 for POP, 25 for SMTP).
Your user name is just your base name (NOT with the @my.wgu.edu at the end).

You can also use IMAP, but I like to actually pull all my mail from my various accounts down to MY machine, for archival and offline purposes.

As has already been pointed out, if you're having trouble accessing the mymail.wgu.edu server, it could be a restriction put in place by your ISP, to only allow port 25 traffic to go through your ISP's mail server. This shouldn't prevent you from GETTING your WGU mail, though. It's very unlikely that any ISP would be goofy enough to block port 110 (POP) traffic.

I've tried the above with my GMail account and it works great. You have to use the "import mail" function within GMail to make it work. If anyone wants the details or a walk through just let me know. Cheers!

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15 comments:

  1. What are the IMAP settings?

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  2. What are the imap settings?

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  3. I don't know because I was quoting someone else in the this blogpost and I don't use imap. Sorry!

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  4. Most IMAP accounts use SSL encryption and port 993.

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  5. You saved my life. Thank you for posting this.

    -Isaac

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  6. Hey Isaac,

    I'm Glad to hear that I was able to provide some useful information.

    Thanks! Mike

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  7. IMAP settings look to be the same... I just set it up using Outlook 2007

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  8. I just tried to set this up with outlook '10 without success. I tried the emai address with @wgu.edu and @my.wgu.edu. I tried the email password as the original they issued me and my current one I use to log into the student portal.

    I've been back and forth with WGU IT dept for a while now asking them how to access my student email without haveing to be logged into the student portal first. THey insist it's easy by going to http://gmail.wgu.edu, entering your email address and password. But that simply takes you to the student portal log in! UNLESS you have another tab or another browser window open and logged into your student portal - THEN it accesses your gmail page. I've proven this with my mentor so it isn't my machine. I've tried to access through gmail's regular log in screen without success too. VERY FRUSTRATING!

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  9. Will these settings work on trying to access them on your smartphone (IPhone)?

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  10. WGU went to Gmail last year so the post above will no longer work for accessing your school email.

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  11. Hey guys.... Mike said that WGU is using GMAIL...remember???

    I set mine up by choosing the GMAIL option in my iphone and BAM! There it is... and I put it in as myemail@wgu.edu and it worked like a charm... google GMAILs server settings if your phone doesnt have it set up as a mail account already which is weird cause almost any phone has gmail already there...

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  12. OR, you just set up autoforward on your WGU account to another mail account. In Gmail you acn alias your replies to match the incoming mail, so you can reply from your regular email as "name@wgu.edu".

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  13. Thank For Your Info!!!

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  14. In order to configure your WGU e-mail in Outlook for POP3, first log into your WGU email account. Click the gear icon, then settings > Mail settings. Next click the tab "Forwarding and POP/IMAP". From here enable POP3 under the section "POP Download". Next click the link to mail client configuration instructions: http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=75726
    Good luck!

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  15. Access your WGU email OUTSIDE of MY WGU PORTAL is easy.

    Just type this:

    http://GMAIL.WGU.EDU

    There you go!!!
    Works like a charm.

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