Montreat College uses Microsoft Exchange and provides support for access to your email via Outlook from Windows PCs, Entourage for Macs, and via Outlook Web Access for remote access when you're away from your computer and need to see your email.

Security Guidelines - Our mail system has a dedicated spam and virus filter. All email is filtered through this device. Nevertheless you should follow some general guidelines with your email for your own security and for the security of the college.

Vacation - An easy way to manage your vacation settings is through the Outlook Web Access. You can turn on and off vacation mode through the web access portal.

Vacation

If you are going on vacation and want to set up a vacation away message autoresponder, whether you are using a Mac or Windows PC, you can manage your settings from Outlook web Access.

Go to Outlook Web Access at e3kmail.montreat.edu/exchange/ and log in to your web mail with your user ID and password. Don't forget that you need to add the "domain" to your user ID to tell Outlook Web Access that you're part of the Montreat network. If your username is "fred" then you would type MONTREAT\fred into the username field. Note that's a backslash "\" between the two.
After you log in, go to "Options" on the links on the left. There you'lls ee the "Out of Office Assistant" conveniently at the top. Just check the "I'm currently out of the office" radio button and fill in yoiur AutoReply message.
Don't forget to go back and set it to "I'm currently in the office" when you do finally come home.
Have a nice vacation.

Security Guidelines

While the College has an integrated spam and virus filtering system for email, there are still some common practices you should use when dealing with your email:

Phishing Attacks - This type of attack tries to dupe you into logging in to a fake website to access an account. If you are deceived by this dupe, you will be providing a hacker your username and password to a potentially highly secure account. The best way to stay safe with a phishing attack is to not ever click on links in emails to access web accounts. Instead, always type the website address into your web browser URL area.

Note that it is safe to click on "account confirmation" links in emails when you sign up for them, but even then you can also copy and paste the link rather than clicking on it. You should only receive these messages when you sign up for something on a website anyway. But do not enter your username and password on a web page that displays after clicking on a link in your email.

Attachments - Do not open attachments from untrusted sources. If you receive a questionable attachment from a friend, you may want to confirm with the friend that they sent the message before you open the attachment. A generic message like..

"Hey! Check out my latest poem!"

That has a document attached to it might be sent by a virus on a friend's computer that faked the message. Correspondingly, if you send an attachment to someone, you may want to put more than just a generic message in your message body so that your recipient knows that you wrote it personally.

Connecting iPhone to Email

If you have an iPhone and you want to connect it to Montreat's email server, here are some great instructions.

Students: You may connect to your Montreat email through services called POP or IMAP (but not through "Microsoft Exchange." - the instructions are here. (Not a Montreat College website.) Note that the servername is https://smail.montreat.edu.

Faculty and staff: Great instructions are here! (This site is not a Montreat College website.) Use e3kmail.montreat.edu in step 8. Thanks.