-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Email Clients . . . 2 at once?

  • From: "Roger" <rcleavitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:06:53 -0700

> SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), POP switches over to port 995, but SMTP will
> still use port 25.  You might occasionally come across a server that
> dictates the use of a different port, but those are pretty rare.

Port 25 does not use SSL. I'm guessing that if you use SSL and POP on 995 
you will need to switch to Port 465 for SMTP.
Both ports require authentication!

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sandi Beach" <sandib2@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 10:56 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Email Clients . . . 2 at once?


> This conversation made me wonder if I need to have any concerns about 
> having
> both dialup and wireless connected at the same time?  Any issues or 
> problems
> with that?
> Sandi
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "GuitarMan" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 12:18 AM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Email Clients . . . 2 at once?
>
>
>> Don,
>>    From your description, it sounds like you wouldn't have the same
>> account
>> set up in both email clients.  If that's true, knock yourself out, my
>> friend.  They won't interfere with each other, at least from an account
>> standpoint.  The only thing I would caution you on depends on whether you
>> have both set for POP access.  If you do have POP accounts in both, set
>> them
>> both to check for new messagesusing the same interval (say, 20 minutes),
>> but
>> start one of the 10 minutes after the other.  POP accounts normally use
>> specific ports for each direction (pop = port 110 & smtp = port 25).
>> Using
>> SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), POP switches over to port 995, but SMTP will
>> still use port 25.  You might occasionally come across a server that
>> dictates the use of a different port, but those are pretty rare.  In any
>> case, you MUST use the port that's supported by the email server or you
>> simply won't be able to connect to it.
>>
>>    Assuming you'll have one client set for POP and the other set for 
>> IMAP,
>> they shouldn't be tripping over each other at all since IMAP uses an
>> entirely different set of ports.
>>
>> Peace,
>> Gman

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