To connect to our servers securely, you will need to tick two boxes in your email client.
Steps to secure your email transaction (based on outlook express)
- Create an email account
- From the email account properties popup, click on Servers
- Change both incoming and outgoing mail server to the servername you are hosted in (Refer to your welcome email)
- From the email account properties popup, click on Advanced
- Tick both This server requires a secure conection (SSL) checkbox (Refer to figure below).
- Change the port number according to the below table.
Email connection type (Default)
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POP3
| 110 |
SMTP
| 25 26 587
|
IMAP
| 143 |
Email connection type (SSL)
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| POP3 (SSL) | 995 |
| SMTP (SSL) | 465 |
| IMAP (SSL) | 993 |