how do you check email?

Colleges & Universities Carnegie Mellon University
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<p>I have my AndrewCarnegie ID, but how do I check to see if I have any email at my address. Don’t all students have an andrewcarnegie email account?</p>

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<p>Go to <a href=“http://webmail.andrew.cmu.edu/[/url]”>http://webmail.andrew.cmu.edu/&lt;/a&gt; and sign in with your andrew ID and password. All students do have accounts. I suggest downloading Thunderbird (related to Firefox) and setting it up with your email account. Webmail is nice for convenience, but a pain to write long emails in.</p>

<p>Download Thunderbird:<a href=“http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/[/url]”>http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/&lt;/a&gt;
Configure Thunderbird: <a href=“http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~help/mail_news/xp_thunderbird/xp_thunderbird.html[/url]”>http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~help/mail_news/xp_thunderbird/xp_thunderbird.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Also, subscribe to misc market (bboard where people sell stuff like textbooks and gossip about campus events) by going to folders in your webmail and subscribing to cmu.misc.market .</p>

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<p>i subscribed to the misc market thing. its really cool. are there any other things that i should subscribe to?</p>

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<p>There are other bboards for classes and organizations, but I don’t think those matter yet.</p>

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<p>login to
<a href=“https://my.cmu.edu%5B/url%5D”>https://my.cmu.edu</a></p>

<p>pretty neat gateway to cmu events.</p>

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<p>But if you route your email to an email client such as Thunderbird, you will not be able to use the webmail, correct?</p>

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<p>I don’t quite get you, Sylvania.
It’s the content of email that matters, not which client you are using…</p>

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<p>My question rephrased: Will you be able to use webmail (to perhaps to check your email when you are not at your own computer) after you have set up Thunderbird?</p>

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<p>i have been using thunderbird for a qhile now, and i havent had any problems with webmail or thunderbird. i used these sites to sonfigure my thunderbird.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.cmu.edu/computing/contributed/documentation/thunderbird_install/thunderbird.html[/url]”>http://www.cmu.edu/computing/contributed/documentation/thunderbird_install/thunderbird.html&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://www.cmu.edu/computing/contributed/documentation/thunderbird_use/thunderbird_use.html[/url]”>http://www.cmu.edu/computing/contributed/documentation/thunderbird_use/thunderbird_use.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>they are kinda long but they cover EVERYTHING, and i havent had a problem.</p>

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<p>Yes, you can still use webmail. I know what you mean Sylvania, and it has to do with what kind of email server is used- the email addresses through Roadrunner only allow you to see messages not opened in a client when you are online.</p>

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<p>I still use webmail … I just have it foward to my gmail account, then go into the Carnegie Mellon label.</p>

<p>That way I don’t have to check like 8 (literally) email addresses.</p>

<p>OH, and you can send from those emails through gmail too, why not then?</p>