Port 725 Questions

Our previous email platform Smartermail allowed connections over port 725. This was a port that we allowed to be used in order to get around the common practice of blocking port 25; the standard port for sending email.

Port 25 is the default port used to transport or communicate email across the Internet using the SMTP protocol.
Many ISPs and broadband / cable providers now block or restrict SMTP connections on port 25 (the default port for SMTP ), the main reason for this is because when a computer gets infected by a virus it can be hijacked by the virus writers to send out thousands, if not millions of spam emails - the ISPs have to prevent this from happening and blocking the port is the only real solution.
 - From https://www.authsmtp.com/faqs/faq-4.html

Our new email platform, OpenSRS does not allow the use of port 725, but another combination of settings will allow you to send email without the commonly-blocked port of 25.

If you are using port 725 in your email client, you will no longer be able to send messages through our email server as of October 1st. 

To ensure that your email program is configured properly, please follow these easy steps:

Microsoft Outlook 2003/2007/2010/2013

1. Open Outlook > Click Tools (Or File for version 2010/2013) > Account Settings > Double click on the appropriate email account. Ensure that your Account Settings are configured as below:

Incoming Mail Server: sesameemail.com
Outgoing Mail Server: sesameemail.com
User Name: Your full email address
Password: The password for the email address above

2. Click More Settings > Advanced and ensure that the settings are configured as below:

Incoming Server port (POP3): 995
SSL = On 
OR
Incoming Server port (IMAP): 993
SSL = On 
AND
Outgoing Server port (SMTP): 465
SSL = On 

All other email clients

Please see this page for additional information. 

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