E-Mail

1. Install the Mozilla Thunderbird email application. You can download the software from Thunderbird for free.

2. After installing Thunderbird, a new window will open, which allows you to set-up your email-address:

• "Your complete name“: This is the name that will be shown as sender.
• "Email-Address": Your complete email-address, in the following form: first name.last name@institute.uni-stuttgart.de.
• "Password": The password of your account.

Confirm with "Continue" ("Weiter").

3. Thunderbird is not able to finalize the set-up with this information, there will be an error and you will have to enter your user name again. 

Click on "Continue".

4. Again, Thunderbird will ask for configuration-details: 

• Protocoll: IMAP
• Hostname: imap.uni-stuttgart.de
• Port: 993
• Connection security: SSL/TLS
• Method of authentification: Password, normal
• User name: your user name, short version (ac123456)
• Hostname: smtp.uni-stuttgart.de
• Port: 587
• Connection security: STARTTLS
• Method of authentification: Password, normal
• User name: your user name, short version (ac123456)

Confirm your configuration.
 

4. Create account for students

4a. Please enter your personal data in the fields below:

• "Your name." Your name. This will be displayed as sender name.
• "E-mail address": Your complete e-mail address in the form st****@stud.uni-stuttgart.de.
• "Password": The password of your account.

Then confirm the entry with "Next".

4b. Thunderbird automatically detects the necessary settings. Select either IMAP or POP3 to pick up your mails.

We strongly recommend to use IMAP, because here the mails remain stored on the server and you can access your mails with other e-mail programs or the web interface.

Confirm the configuration with "OK".

1. Click on "File" in the upper left corner.

2. Click on "Add account".

3. Enter the following data:

• "Your name." Your name. This will be displayed as sender name.
  "E-mail address": Your complete e-mail address in the following format:
  
  firstname.lastname@institut.uni-stuttgart.de (for employees)
  st******@stud.uni-stuttgart.de (for students)
  
  
• "Password": The password of your account.

Then click on "Next".

Using Office 365, Users have to select "Exchange" as account type. If you have problems setting up your your mail account in Outlook 365 please contact our support.

4. Accept the configuration.

A pop-up appears in which you must allow the configuration of https://lbvs.tik.uni-stuttgart.de. You can also check the box "Do not ask about this website in the future" to avoid being asked about it again.

Click on "Allow".

Es erscheint ein Pop-up, in dem Sie die Konfiguration von https://lbvs.tik.uni-stuttgart.de zulassen müssen. Sie können auch den Haken bei "Zukünftig nicht mehr zu dieser Webseite fragen" setzen, um nicht ein weiteres Mal danach gefragt zu werden.

Klicken Sie auf "Zulassen".

5. Es erscheint ein Pop-up für die Anmeldung. Klicken Sie hier auf "Weitere Optionen" oder "Anderes Konto verwenden".

Bitte beachten Sie, dass beim ersten Start von Outlook diese Anmeldedaten erneut abgefragt werden können.

A pop-up for the login appears. Click on "More options" or "Use another account".

Please note that the first time you start Outlook, you may be prompted to enter these credentials again.

6. Now enter your user ID (long).

ac******@uni-stuttgart.de (for employees)
st******@stud.uni-stuttgart.de (for students)

Place a check mark next to "Save login data" and then click "OK".

7.  Now click on "Finish".

8. Outlook then prompts you to restart the program. Click on "OK".

1. Open Apple Mail.

2. Click on "Accounts..." under the "Mail" tab.

3. To add an Exchange account now click on "Exchange".

4. Enter the following data:

• "Name": Your name. This will be displayed as sender name.
  "E-mail address": Your complete e-mail address in the following form:
• firstname.lastname@institut.uni-stuttgart.de (for employees)
  st******@stud.uni-stuttgart.de (for students)
• "Password": The password of your account.

5. Despite the message "Account name/password could not be verified", click "Next".

6. Enter the following address in both the Internal URL field and the External URL field:

• https://mail.uni-stuttgart.de/ews/exchange.asmx

Then click on "Register".

7. Decide for yourself which applications and information will be connected to Apple Mail and click "Done".

Please note: E-mail applications differ depending on the end device and Android version. The following instructions were written in the Gmail application on Android 9.

1. Open your preferred e-mail application. Select "Exchange" under "Add account".

2. Enter the following data:

• "E-mail address": Your complete e-mail address in the following form:
• st******@stud.uni-stuttgart.de (for students)
  firstname.lastname@institut.uni-stuttgart.de (for employees)
• "Password": The password of your account.

3. The message "Redirect request" appears and confirm it with "OK".

6. In the following you have to change some settings manually:

• "Domain\username": Your complete username in the following form:
• ac******@uni-stuttgart.de (for employees)
  st******@stud.uni-stuttgart.de (for students)
• "Server": Please change to "activesync.uni-stuttgart.de"

Then click on "Next".

7. Allow permissions

You will be asked for different permissions. Confirm these. They are necessary to set up the account.

1. Under "Settings" go to "Mail".

2. Now go to "Accounts".

3. To set up a new Exchange account go to "Add account".

4. Select "Exchange".

5. Enter the following data:

• "E-mail address": Your complete e-mail address in the following form:
• firstname.lastname@institut.uni-stuttgart.de (for employees)
  st******@stud.uni-stuttgart.de (for students)
• "Description": How your e-mail address should be displayed (optional).

6. Now enter the corresponding password and select "Next".

7. Enter the following data:

• "Server": Please enter activesync.uni-stuttgart.de
• "Domain": Please leave this field blank!
• "Username": Your short username in the following form:
  • ac******@uni-stuttgart.de (for employees)
  • st******@stud.uni-stuttgart.de (for students)
• "Password": Enter the corresponding password again.

Confirm with "Next". Your Exchange account is now connected to iOS Mail.

You can use the following interfaces for your e-mail client:

1. Log in to the UniMail web interface.

• Please visit the page https://mail.uni-stuttgart.de
• The login takes place with your short user ID in the following form:
  
  ac****** (for employees)
  st******(for students)

2. Select "Options" from the "Settings" menu (gear symbol):

3. You are now in the options. On the left side there is a nested menu structure. There, select "Incoming mail and cleanup rules". This is located as a submenu item under the option "E-Mail" > "Automatic processing". To create a new forwarding, click on "Add" (plus symbol) in the "Incoming Mail Rules".

4. Create a new call forwarding.

• Choose a name for the rule (it can be any name you like)
• As condition select "Apply to all messages".
• As action select "Forward, Redirect or Send" > "Redirect Message To".
• A pop-up appears. In the line "Forward message to...", enter the e-mail address to which the message should be forwarded
• Confirm the changes with "Ok".
• It may take a few minutes for the rule to become active.