Well guys, the time has come. We placed a reminder in everyone’s control panel this past Friday letting you know that this week we will be making the change over from POP before SMTP to SMTP Auth. Now that this week has arrived we are ready to go. There should be little to no impact for most of you as you are likely already using the correct settings. This change is mainly on the back-end in how you authorize yourselves on our mail servers to send out email.
The main difference between the two methods is that when using POP before SMTP, your mail client is not required to send any login information to the server once you’ve already downloaded(POP) your email account and with SMTP Auth your mail client must send login information for each email you send. We put together some simple instructions on how to update your mail client to use SMTP Auth on Friday.
The change in settings is the same regardless of which email client you use it may just be in a different location. Below are some screenshots of where you’ll find the setting in Thunderbird and Outlook.
Check out our tutorials for various mail clients with instructions on how to make the necessary changes.
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Great job. There were no interruptions to my mail service. It appeared seamless
Great… now let’s try to work on letting us not send passwords in the clear, eh?
Are you referring to sending passwords for SMTP without using SSL encryption?
I think the above person is referring to how NetFirms will send our Password/PIN unencrypted in email correspondence between customer and NetFirms Support or other depts. at Netfirms. That bugged me too. I know my PINs and don’t need for it to be sent to me in broad daylight via email.
Buenas, este cambio afecta joomla 1.0.15, por que desde que hicieron este cambio no he podido enviar emails desde mis webs y estamos hablando de 10 paginas web que dejaron de funcionar de pronto.
Su correo electrónico del Joomla no está funcionando debido a otras razones. He enviado un mensaje de correo electrónico acerca de ello
A donde al soporte de netfirms??
support@netfirms.com , via http://support.netfirms.com or from directly inside your Netfirms Control Panel.
ya m respondieron muchas gracias!
I am referring to the fact that, as far as I know, the Netfirms POP servers do not support encrypted authentication, so all passwords are sent as plain text, and can therefore be intercepted by third-parties. (Correct me if I am wrong.)
Also, as the person above me noted, Netfirms tends to like sending passwords *to me* in plain text as well. I am generally very pleased with the services, but when I change my hosting/FTP password, I do not want my password to be easily readable by any person who is between me and the sender.
Jake
Noted. We will bring this up for review with our security and abuse department. It is a valid point and imo it should be more secure.
Thank you Dan. It is good to know that you guys are listening.
I have been waiting for more secure POP authentication for some time. You wouldn’t believe how easy it is to “sniff” plain-text passwords. The POP servers could be upgraded to support SSL or TLS encryption (which most–if not all–mail clients support).
Keep the blog posts coming!
Jake