Author Archives: Hasan Ali

Both POP3 and SMTP are protocols for handling your email over the Internet. The difference between them is that the SMTP protocol handles sending new emails, while POP3 takes care of receiving emails. For more information on that matter, take a look on our … Continued

SMTP is an abbreviation that stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. This protocol allows applications to transmit email messages over the Internet. Basically, SMTP handles your outgoing mail. Your email application connects to your mail server via SMTP and sends the … Continued

Many mail servers, including XonHost’s, are set up with pop-before-smtp. This is a Perl script that allows email relay control based on successful POP / IMAP logins. In other words, you need to establish a valid POP or IMAP connection to … Continued

The default number of maximum allowed IMAP connections in Mozilla Thunderbird is set to 5. Depending on the specific IMAP configuration on the server hosting your account, this may result in the following error message: 1 Unable to connect to … Continued

IMAP allows you to create folders on the mail server. Spam folders are also kept on the server. If your IMAP folders are not showing up, follow these steps to subscribe to them with your Mozilla Thunderbird mail client: Step … Continued

Google’s Gmail SMTP server is a free SMTP service which anyone who has a Gmail account can use to send emails. You can use it with personal emails, or even with your website if you are sending emails for things such as contact forms, … Continued

You will need the following settings to complete the email configuration on your iPhone: Name: the name of your email user (e.g. John Smith) Address: your email address (e.g. [email protected]) Password: the password for your email address. If you don’t know it … Continued

By default, when you send an email from your iPhone, a “Sent from my iPhone” signature will be added to your message. You can edit this following these easy steps: From your iPhone home screen go to the Settings menu. Tap on … Continued

If you receive the following error in your Outlook application: 1 Outlook reports: Sending and receiving reported error (0x800CCC65) Your outgoing (SMTP) email server has reported an internal error this means that your application fails to connect to the SMTP … Continued

In order to reconfigure an iPhone to keep the sent, drafts or deleted messages on the mail server, you should first login to the e-mail account through the built-in iPhone mail client and then browse the following folders: Drafts Mailbox … Continued