Configuring Netscape Mail
To configure your Netscape Mail or any other e-mail client, you need to know
your POP3 and SMTP servers. To find them out:
- Log into H-Sphere control panel;
- Click Mail Service on your control panel home page.
Your provider's mail server may use different SMTP relays for sending mail - POP before SMTP or SMTP AUTH.
In POP before SMTP, the relay system collects your IP address when you authenticate yourself
with the POP server, and then permits SMTP relaying from that IP address for a short period of time.
In other words, if your server uses POP before SMTP, you need to check your mail first, only then you
can send your messages. If your mail servers uses SMTP AUTH, you must configure your Outlook Express to send a login
and password not only when you receive mail, but also when you send it. Ask your provider which relay the server uses.
Configuring Netscape Mail (POP Before
SMTP Relay)
To configure this email client with the POP before SMTP relay:
- Open Netscape Mail.
Note: Netscape users may experience problems with
collecting their mail. In this case, mail server login name must be written with the % character instead
of the @ sign, e.g. username%example.com. Netscape only supports a clear-text SMTP AUTH protocol so SSL use is required.
- In the top menu bar, select Preferences from the Edit drop-down menu.
- Click
Mail and Newsgroups in the left menu and select Identity. On the page that appears:
- enter your name as the following example shows;
- enter the email address of the account you're setting up;
- enter the reply email address (usually the same as email address).
- Select
Mail Servers in the left menu and click Add against the
Incoming Mail Servers field.
- On the dialog window that shows, choose the
General tab and fill the form:
- Enter the
Server name;
- Choose
POP as Server type
- Enter
User name
- Select
Remember password if you want to login to your mail account without having to type a password every time.
- Optionally, select
Check for mail every specified period of time.
- Select the
POP tab to choose different Incoming Mail options.
- Click
OK to save settings.
- Back on the
Mail Servers page, enter the Outgoing Mail Server info:
- Enter
Outgoing Mail Server name;
- Enter
User name (make sure to type full email address in this field).
- Click OK to save settings.
Configuring Netscape Mail with SMTP Auth
Relay
- Repeat steps 1-8 from of the instructions above
- Under the "Use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) or TLS for outgoing messages", select
Always.
- Click OK to save settings.
Now that Netscape Mail is configured, you can send and receive emails.
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