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How do I set up POP3 and SMTP for the e-mails?


The POP3 and SMTP services are already installed on your server, and they are
ready to use. Incoming POP3 and Outgoing SMTP servers is your domain name.

Although the SMTP service can be used, in the standard configuration it will not
relay any e-mails from external addresses (e.g. your e-mail client) to external
addresses. This setting is intended to offer protection against spam e-mails.
(Spam means that strangers send large number of e-mails via your server.) Of
course, there are ways of sending e-mails via the root server without opening the
sendmail service up for spam messages.

You can set the sendmail configuration to relay e-mails from specific IP networks,
domains or sender e-mail addresses. Moreover the server is configured by default
to accept AUTH SMTP messages. That means that your e-mail client (Outlook, etc.)
needs to log into your mail server before it will be able to send any messages.

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