E-mail: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 14:17, 27 April 2012

Email works with two servers :

receiving server which is post.science.ru.nl. You can access it by using the IMAP protocol.
sending server which is smtp.science.ru.nl. You can access it by using the SMTP protocol.

Note: all email will be stored on the receiving (IMAP) server and not on your home directory.

make in your email program a new account with the following settings
- IMAP protocol
- mailserver: post.science.ru.nl
- turn on SSL security (IMAP than uses port993 )
add in your email program a new sending (SMTP) server :
- SMTP-server : smtp.science.ru.nl>
- Turn TLS on! Authentication is only allowed if TLS is used. Sometimes this is called STARTTLS (Eudora) or SSL (Outlook, Pine).
- port : 25
In your email client you can now make new folders under your Inbox folder. These new folders can be used to store mails from your Inbox folder by using drag and drop.

IMAP uses SSL, but SMTP uses TSL!
With IMAP you cannot turn SSL off!
With SMTP you can turn TLS off and it then still works on port 25. However when TLS is turned of authentication is disabled and you will be disallowed to connect to the SMTP server when you are outside the university network. SMTP can use TLS or not!
For SMTP I advice to always keep TSL turned on.

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 #*Turn '''TLS''' on! Authentication is only allowed if TLS is used. Sometimes this is called STARTTLS (Eudora) or SSL (Outlook, Pine).
 #*port&nbsp;: '''25'''<br>
-#In your email client you can now make new folders under your Inbox folder. These new folders can be used to store mails from your Inbox folder to  using drag and drop.
+#In your email client you can now make new folders under your Inbox folder. These new folders can be used to store mails from your Inbox folder by using drag and drop.
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