Email Access From an Email Client (Outlook, Thunderbird, Zimbra, etc)

I emailed the IT dept asking how we can access our email from a client and this is their reply: So for those of you that are tech savvy, here's the bad news

Dear Joon Kang

Due to technical problems we had to disconnect the functionality for
forwarding emails, this should be working in the New Year. 

Regards

EISAStudent Support


-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxxxxx@gmail.com [mailto:xxxxxx@gmail.com]
Sent: 07 November 2008 15:46
To: EISAStudent Support
Subject: Portal Pilot: Feedback

This message was generated from an HTML form submitted to
the generic form handler at: www.londonexternal.ac.uk
The data came from the form at:
http://www.londonexternal.ac.uk/contact_us/portal_feedback.shtml
The browser making the request came from 58.238.17.15.
The current date is Fri Nov  7 15:45:31 2008.


name         :  Joon Kang
email        :  xxxxxxxx@gmail.com
subject      :  Email via Email client
suggestions  :  How can I access my email via Mozilla Thunderbird (pop3)
or Zimbra Desktop?
send         :  Send Feedback