[nabs-l] Problem with setting up my college email on my Apex

[Sami Osborne]

Hi all,

I know this question has recently been asked before, but I'm 
having a problem with setting up my college email account on my 
Apex.  I'll be starting my college classes next week, and thought 
that I could use my Apex for reading/writing my emails to make 
things easier.  I unfortunately wasn't able to obtain the POP and 
SMTP information, either at freshman orientation or through 
emails with the coordinator of Disability Services.  I tried 
different things, for example not entering any POP or Smtp 
information but changing the port numbers (which are different 
from the default settings with my Verizon account,) and then 
changing them back to the default, but neither of those worked.  
I can also access the emails just fine on my iPhone, by creating 
it as though it were a Gmail (Google account, without the need to 
enter any information beside my name, email address, and 
password.  So as you can see, I can access my college emails on 
my phone just fine, but not on my Apex.

Therefore, I have a few questions for you Apex users out there: 
1.  Is it required for all email accounts you create on the Apex 
to enter POP and SMTP information? 2.  If the answer to my first 
question is yes, how can I obtain this information? Could I 
possibly get it before class starts? Another concern that came to 
my attention is that not everyone out there is the most 
technologically advanced individual, so how can I explain it to 
them if they get confused, and what if they tell me afterwords 
that they still can't find the information I requested? 3.  I 
know that a lot of you guys on this list use Gmail accounts, 
including you other Apex users.  Did you have to enter that 
information when creating your account since Gmail uses iMap and 
not POP?

I hope you guys can get back to me ASAP.

Thanks and enjoy the start to your semesters,

Sami