If you need to manually configure your email client program or app the details herein may help as a handy reference.
They are typical email configurations for incoming and outgoing email both IMAP and POP. Your mail server references may be different, according to your email hosting organisation.
Email client programs, for example Microsoft’s Outlook; Apples Mail and Mozilla’s Thunderbird, may be configured automatically with varying degrees of success. I have found Thunderbird to work best of the three, although a tweak may still be required.
Emails can be configured using either the POP or IMAP protocols.
The IMAP protocol leaves the emails on the server, allowing greater interaction of the emails across multiple devices. Conversely the POP protocol downloads the emails from the server.
POP
Incoming server
Mail server: mail.example.com
User name: email address, eg. info@example.com
Port: 110 or 995 (encrypted)
Password: as defined
Outgoing server
Mail server: mail.example.com
User name: email address, eg. info@example.com
Port: 25 or 587 or 465(secure)
Password: as defined
Authentication: frequently required
IMAP
Incoming server
Mail server: mail.example.com
User name: email address, eg. info@example.com
Port: 142 or 993 (secure)
Password: as defined
Outgoing server
Mail server: mail.example.com
User name: email address, eg. info@example.com
Port: 25 or 587 or 465 (secure)
Password: as defined
Authentication: frequently required
Port 587 is typically more reliable with port 25 often blocked by the ISP for connections to mail servers which aren’t their own.
In the above, example.com has been used as the domain name, replace this with the domain which you wish to configure.
Mail servers may also be named, for instance: smtp.example.com, pop.example.com or imap.example.com. Check with your email service provider to confirm these details.
If you chose a secure connection, your email client program may alert you to a mismatch.
The certificate mismatch is caused by the difference in naming between your domain and the certificate configured against the domain of the mail server by the email service provider.
Contact your email provider for advice. It may be possible to reference the mail server by its infrastructure naming.
