Configure Your Email Client for VUmail (IMAP)

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Configure Your Email Client for VUmail

VUexchange/Microsoft Exchange information

Pre-configured VUmail Access

  • VUwebmail - web browser access from any computer with an internet connection
  • Mulberry - Legacy email client no longer supported by its vendor nor actively supported by ITS.

Other Clients

VUmail IMAP and SSL configuration instructions. You will need this information to proceed.

Group Mail Configuration

Accessing VUmail from an external Internet Service Provider (ISP):

To prevent unauthorized use of Vanderbilt's mail servers to send unsolicited commercial email (spam), technology leaders and support providers campuswide devised the following rules, which were instituted in August 1998.

  1. Any mail originating from a computer with a Vanderbilt network IP address will be accepted for relay regardless of destination.
  2. Any mail originating from a computer with an IP address not belonging to Vanderbilt will be accepted for relay only to destinations within Vanderbilt.
  3. Messages originating from a computer with an IP address not belonging to Vanderbilt will be accepted for relay to non-Vanderbilt destinations only if the From: header of the message contains a valid BCA.

Personal Information for Configuration

You must have the following information before configuring your email client for use with VUmail:

  • Your VUnetID and password,
  • The name of your IMAP server - the form will be X.mail.vanderbilt.edu where X is the first letter of your VUnetID.
  • The name of your SMTP server - the form will be X.smtp.vanderbilt.edu where X is the first letter of your VUnetID.
  • Your BCA (Business Card Address) - the form will be firstname.m.lastname@vanderbilt.edu. You can set up several BCAs for your account by modifying your options.