Mail Client Setup

The best way to ensure no one can get your password (at least not without going to a huge amount of trouble) is to POP your email using a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) connection. This means that all data exchanged between your mail client and the server is encrypted with a digital security certificate, making it [pretty close to] impossible for anyone with malicious intentions to steal your email, and/or password.

Trickhosting offers secure SSL (Secure Socket Layer) POP, as well as SSL SMTP email, as a standard feature on all our email hosting accounts. To use this service you must use the following options in your mail client

• Mail server name (web1.trickhositing.biz) you may also use (mail.yourdomainaname.tld)
• Incomming Mail Server Port (995) - Check the SSL option
• Outgoing Mail Server Port (465) - Check the SSL option 

• When a mailbox is opened using standard POP3 protocol, the username and password are sent in the clear over the internet. This means, that anyone with the ability to "listen in" on your mail client's login session with your mail server can easily retrieve your username and password, as well as read your email. In addition, once they have your password, they could read your email without your knowledge or permission, or they could even send SPAM email from your account.  Possibly getting you into serious trouble, since spamming is a crime in most Western countries these days.