Email:Sending Email
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Settings
- Username: full email address including domain. For example foo@bar.com
- Incoming Mailserver: mail.yourdomain.com. For example mail.bar.com
- Outgoing Mailserver: smtp.yourdomain.com. For example smtp.bar.com The outgoing server requires authentication with the same username /password as the incoming mail server
- Outgoing Port: Use either port 25 or port 587. Some ISPs are now blocking traffic on port 25 so we are now offering SMTP-AUTH on port 587
- Use SSL: SSL is NOT available on any saskaweb services (IMAP, POP, SMTP)
Description
SaskaWeb.com offers authenticated SMTP service to clients of our mailhosting service. This service allows our clients to send email to domains hosted on other servers through a process known as relaying. Although this may sound trivial, many mailhosting companies do not provide any relaying capabilities, instead forcing the client to use another mail server to send email. This problem is compounded by certain ISPs who restrict this traffic unless it is directed to their servers. If a client uses their ISP's mail server to relay, they can lose the ability to send email from other locations (hotels, wireless access points...)
We want to provide our clients with the ability to send email regardless of their ISP.
- We provide a relaying service, but we've restricted relaying to clients who have a valid username / password to protect our servers from spammers.
- ISPs have been restricting traffic with a destination of port 25 and so we also provide our relaying service at port 587
We prefer clients of our spam filtering service to use us as their outgoing mailserver as they contribute to their whitelist and notspam collections. The use of the Outlook Plugin is also dependent on the client using our mail servers as their outgoing mail server.
HowTo
Instructions for configuring an email client are available here
