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Re: [LUG] Email and SSL

 

On 26/10/2018 13:01, Neil wrote:
> I have just added a new email account for myself. (This is one way to
> keep things separate instead of too many filters.) Anyway, when I had a
> look at the manual settings I noticed that it was recommended to use the
> secure settings. I use IMAP and the only difference I could see was the
> port numbers for the incoming servers. On most of my email accounts I
> have port 143 set up for incoming emails. Just one account uses port
> 993. I have never noticed this before.
> 
> Can anyone comment on this please? If is is better to use port 993
> because it is more secure, and I change that setting, will it cause me
> any problems? The outgoing server is set to port 587, whereas the
> recommendation is to use 465. I am using the Thunderbird client and
> there is only one outgoing server for all accounts. At least, if there
> is a way to have different outgoing servers for each account I have not
> found it.
> 
> Or should I just not mess with it?
> 
> Neil
> 

I have found the ports are set by my ISP provider and in case of my own
hosted website by my host.
If i do not use their named ports no action.
However the ports are different for my main ISP and my host provider.

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regards
Eion MacDonald

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