SMTP Authentication 

 

One of the biggest challenges faced by the Internet community is how to deal with Spam email messages.  We are taking a proactive approach in the fight against Spam.  One component of our strategy is to modify the configuration of our mail server to ensure that mail it delivers can be properly traced back to its source. 

Because of this change, all of our customers will need to make a change in the settings in their email software.

This change is easy to do -- really!  In most cases it will just be a few clicks of your mouse.  We have created a web pages that provides step-by-step instructions for making these changes for Netscape, Outlook Express, Outlook, and the Eudora email programs.
"Spamming" is the sending of unsolicited copies of the same message to a large number of email accounts or newsgroups.  Spam is also referred to as junk mail and unsolicited bulk email (UBE).  It has been estimated that as much as 30% of of all email traffic on the Internet could be categorized as Spam.
   
Setting Up Outlook Express
Setting Up Outlook
Setting Up Outlook XP (2002)
Setting Up Outlook 2003
Setting Up Netscape
Setting Up Macintosh
Using WebMail
Your WebMail needs no configuration.
It is automatically set up for Authenticated SMTP.
If you need have any problems with this, please contact your admin..
What is SMTP?

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is the protocol, or language, that computers use to send outgoing email.  POP3 protocol is the language computers use for receiving or incoming email.  Spammers take advantage of the SMTP protocol by bouncing or relaying email off of an email server and sending it out to email addresses as unsolicited email.  In order to keep SPAMMERS from sending out their burdensome and sometimes annoying email solicitations to hundreds if not thousands of random email accounts anyone sending out email from any account on a this  mail server must be authenticated with both a username AND a password.

Our servers are configured so that if any combination of the username or password are incorrect or are not supplied at all, the email will not be sent.  This is a way to prevent relaying of unwanted, unneeded emails off of legitimate email servers.  It sounds like a hassle to the end user, but all that needs to be done is check a box or two via the instructions on these pages for whatever email program you are using -- and that's it.  You will not notice that you are receiving any less SPAM, but we are doing our part to help keep the internet free of such burdensome traffic.