Hampshire College

Hampshire College provides e-mail accounts to all faculty, staff, students, and alumns as a means of fostering communications in support of academic, research, and administrative needs. Students are provided accounts upon enrollment at the college and may retain accounts while enrolled and as alumns. All official correspondence from the college sent via e-mail will be sent to these accounts. For details about account eligibility and retention, please see the guidelines listed in the E-Mail Account Policy page.

Basic Settings

A variety of e-mail programs are used by faculty, staff and students. As a result, Information Technology (IT) cannot provide specific instructions for every program. The IT Department supports Mozilla Thunderbird as the preferred e-mail client. Entourage, available only on the Macintosh platform, is also supported. To learn why and learn about configuring and using either of these applications, click the appropriate link at left.

For other clients, use the basic settings below:

Incoming Mail Server
Faculty/Staff: helios.hampshire.edu
Students: stout.hampshire.edu
Alumni: alum.hampshire.edu

Outgoing (SMTP) Mail Server
smtp.hampshire.edu

HampNet Username
Faculty/Staff: Initials + Mail Code   (example:  hjbLO)
Students: Initials + Year of Entry     (example:  hjb07)     
Alumni: Initials + Year of Entry       (example: hjb98)

IMAP protocol
If you choose to use IMAP as the mail protocol your mail program will use to check your e-mail, it is important to enter "mail" in the Advanced Server Settings as the "IMAP server directory".