Making Your Computer Work for You

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Making Your Computer Work for You

• Sponsored by the Newel K. Whitney Society and the
  BYU-Idaho Computer Helpdesk

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How can the Helpdesk help you?

• Our website www.byui.edu/helpdesk
• Walkthroughs and tips
• Come on in!
• We are open daily from 8am to 9pm in McKay 310
• Give us a call
• 496-2361
• Send us an email
• helpdesk_at_byui.edu

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Email Helps

• Is it too full?
• Can I read my BYU-I email in Hotmail or Gmail?
• Do I have to access my BYU-I email from the web?

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Mailbox too full

• Sign in to my.byui.edu

Click on this link to see what is too full
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What is full in your email

• When your account gets to 15 MB, you will begin
  receiving administrative emails, warning of the
  pending closure.
• After it gets to 25 MB, you will not be able to
  send or receive any mail.

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An example of how to effectively empty your email
account

• Watch as I demonstrate this. There is a
  walkthrough available online at
• www.byui.edu/helpdesk/email_limit.htm

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Using your account with Gmail

• Create or Sign in to your Gmail account
• Click on Settings in the upper right hand
  corner
• Click Accounts in the yellow box
• In the Get mail from other accounts box, click
  Add another mail account
• Enter your email address
• (ex. JON07025_at_byui.edu)

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Enter this information
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Finish Setup

• Simply follow the directions and you will be on
  your way to having your BYU-I email in your Gmail
  inbox.
• Hint By setting up Gmail to send using the BYU-I
  account, you can do all of your emailing from
  Gmail!

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Get your email using other services

• Sign into your BYU-I email using Internet
  Explorer (Firefox will not work for this)

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Set a rule

• Select Rules in the left pane

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Making the New Rule

• Click New to create a new rule

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Create Settings for the Rule
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Take organization a little further

• Setup Microsoft Outlook to view your mail
• Mozilla Thunderbird is a free alternative, it is
  available at
• http//www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

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Set up your account in Outlook

• A step by step guide to setting up Microsoft
  Outlook is available at
• http//www.byui.edu/helpdesk/Email/imap.htm
• If you have already setup a Gmail account to
  receive your BYU-I messages, you can set it up,
  by following these directions
• http//mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answe
  r13276topic1556

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Extra Using Outlook to keep a calendar

• This is the same whether you use Outlook Web
  Access (the web based BYU-I email) or Outlook on
  your personal computer.

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Viewing your Calendar

• While in Outlook, Click on the Calendar option

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Create a new event
Click here to create a new appointment
Select the day of the month here
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The New Appointment Dialog
Use this window to set up an appointment that
happens several times
Use this to set the start and end times for the
appointment
When you are finished, click Save and Close