By Juan Perez—

Sometime between Fall 2011 and the beginning of Spring 2012 the Campus IT staff updated the email server. In an effort to cut costs and go green, the campus wants to go paperless and most professors are emailing materials to your NJCU email address or putting it on Blackboard. If you’re like me, you hardly ever sign into email traditionally and you just set it to your phone and only sign in when you have to. Thanks to updates to the server IOS and capabilities of Android devices, we now have native NJCU email support at our disposal. What does that mean? It means you can now use your tablet, smart phone, or any other handheld device with internet connection and e-mail application without having to sign into Gotmail through a web browser. If you’ve had those devices since 2009 you can only receive NJCU email but never send it with your @njcu.edu account. That feature only worked for Blackberry users but not anymore. So sit back, pull out your device, and let’s configure it.

For Apple users:
First, go to settings, press on mail, contacts, calendars, then hit add account.
Next, hit other then pop3
Under pop account information:
Name: put the name you want the email to display
Address: [email protected]
Description: The name you want to give your NJCU account

Incoming Mail Server
Host Name: mail.njcu.edu
User name: just the first half of your NJCU email leave out @njcu.edu
Password: your NJCU email password

Outgoing mail server
SMTP: mail.njcu.edu
User name: just the first half of your NJCU email leave out @njcu.edu
Password: your NJCU email password
Use SSL: turn that on
Authentication: set it on password

These settings also work on Android, just go to the email app and hit the menu button. Next tap on more then add account and follow the same instructions. But the SSL settings may vary on different Android devices otherwise it is the same.