Setting
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More information
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Example
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Username
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Where asked for the username, users must enter their complete email address
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johnsmith@example.com
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| Password
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Where asked for their password, users must enter the password they selected when creating the email account on our servers.
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********
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Incoming Mail Server / Host Name
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Using mail.domain.com will continue to work, but is no longer remcommended. See our
SSL certificate on shared email service support page for assistance.
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POP or IMAP: mailX.prohosting.com
(where X is replaced with the correct server number for your account. Do not use mailX.prohosting.com, it will not work. **)
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Incoming Server Port
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Our email servers use all the default incoming server port numbers.
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POP:
Non SSL= 110
SSL = 995
IMAP:
SSL = 993
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Outgoing Mail Server / Host Name
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Using mail.domain.com will continue to work, but is no longer remcommended. See our
SSL certificate on shared email service support page for assistance.
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SMTP: mailX.prohosting.com
(where X is replaced with the correct server number for your account. Do not use mailX.prohosting.com, it will not work. **)
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Outgoing Server Port
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Most Internet Service Providers (ISP) block port 25 for their own outgoing emails.
We recommend using port 587 or if connecting via SSL, 465
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Non SSL = 587
SSL = 465
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| Authentication Type
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Users must use password authentication to send or
receive
emails from our servers.
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Password
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