Email: Configuring Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP)
April 12, 2006
Adding an email account in cPanel is simple, but sometimes configuring your email client to receive email can throw you for a loop. The reason? There isn’t one set way to do it. What will work for you might not work for me and it all rests on choices made by your ISP.
In an effort to reduce junk mail and spam, a growing number of ISPs have implemented outbound email SMTP port controls. If this is true of your ISP, then if you are not hosting your website with them, but are using a separate company, your hosting mail server will not be able to send outgoing email using the same settings you use for your Incoming Mail Server (POP3).
Instead, you can send outgoing mail messages by converting your Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) to use your ISP’s mail servers. The Incoming Mail Server (POP3) does not need to be changed.
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