The Mail service provides the means of creating and managing mail services at the domain. That includes creating mail user accounts, mail lists, etc. The features accessible to the mail users include availability of multiple mailboxes, redirects, automatically generated replies capabilities (autoresponders), etc.
Note: The Mail service provided by your subscription can be used on all of the domains you have, independently on the limit unit stated at Home > Resource Usage page > Mail hosting resource.
The list of the supported email protocols is the following:
- POP3 – Post Office Protocol (POP) used by email clients to retrieve incoming emails from mail server.
- POP3 over SSL – Post Office Protocol (POP) used by email clients to retrieve incoming emails from mail server over secured connection.
- IMAP – Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) used by email clients to retrieve incoming emails from mail server.
- IMAP over SSL – Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) used by email clients to retrieve incoming emails from mail server over secured connection.
- SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) used by email clients to transmit outgoing emails to mail server.
- SMTP over SSL – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) used by email clients to transmit outgoing emails to mail server over secured connection.
- SIEVE – Language for filtering email messages. You can manage the SIEVE email filtering rules using Open-Xchange Web Mail or any SIEVE-enabled email client.
You can configure any of these protocols using documentation for your mail client. The server addresses are displayed at Mail > Mailboxes page.
Note: The list of the available email protocols depends on your hosting subscription.
Important: For correct operation of qmail-based mailboxes, it is necessary that SMTP authentication is turned on in your users' mail client programs.