POP3 Settings
POP3 (Post Office Protocol) is the most common way for accessing your email on a mail client. Mail is sent to our servers and resides in a mailbox until it is collected using the POP protocol and stored locally on your machine. Most mail clients will delete the mail from our servers once downloaded locally although it is possible to specify a copy remains on our server. This can be useful if multiple machines need access to a copy of the same message.
| Incoming Server | mail.interdns.co.uk |
|---|---|
| Incoming Port Number | 110 |
| Alternative Incoming Port Number | 6110 |
Connecting securely.
To connect securely to our mail servers with data encrypted, simply enable TLS / STARTTLS on your mail client. No port changes are required by your mail client for this facility to function. Some mail apps (like mail on iPhone / iPads) need to be set to SSL, at which point they change the ports incorrectly, so go back and change the port back to 110 for POP3.
Authenticated SMTP
As standard, and for free, all hosting customers can send email through our SMTP servers. In order to send through our servers you need to authenticate a POP3 or IMAP mailbox username and password. The authentication ensures only our customers can utilize this service.
| SMTP Address | smtp.interdns.co.uk |
|---|---|
| Mailbox Username | user@username (or the full email address) |
| Mailbox Password | ******** |
| Default Outgoing Port Number | 25 |
| Alternative Outgoing Port Number | 2500 |
| Alternative Outgoing Port Number | 587 |
Connecting Securely
To connect securely to our mail servers with data encrypted, simply enable STARTTLS on your mail client. No port changes are required by your mail client for this facility to function. Some mail apps (like mail on iPhone / iPads) need to be set to SSL, at which point they change the ports incorrectly, so go back and change the port back to 2500 for SMTP.
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