How To Set Up Secure Email

We provide 2 services for making email secure: IMAP/POP over TLS(SSL), which provides privacy for incoming mail, and SMTP over TLS(SSL), which does the same for outgoing mail.

We have also enabled SMTP AUTH. This allows users to send mail from their cs account from outside our network.

What is required

All that is required is a mail client that knows how to use the secure services. Examples are Netscape Mail and Microsoft Outlook.

Netscape Mail

• Edit->Preferences... Mail & Newsgroups -> Mail Servers


Outgoing mail (SMTP) server:

run the program my-mail-server.

Outgoing mail server user name:

your unix username.

Use Secure Socket Layer(SSL) or TLS for outgoing messages:

choose Always.

Incoming Mail Servers

click the Add... or Edit... button.

General tab

Server Name: Run my-mail-server.
Server Type: choose IMAP.
User Name: Your unix username.


IMAP tab

make sure Use secure connection (SSL) is checked.

Microsoft Outlook