Filed under: Technical References
Posted: March 6, 2009
While the webmail interface is fine as quick way to check your email from anywhere, you are encouraged to setup a real email client, such as Thunderbird for your regular usage. Note that the “Wizard” interface might not allow you to select secure settings (SSL/TLS). You must go back and edit the account settings afterwards to add TLS/SSL. The correct settings are:
Server (IMAP/POP/SMTP): mail.cs.uri.edu
Port numbers are (should be defaults in most programs):
IMAP (with SSL): 993
IMAP (with TLS/STARTTLS): 143
POP3 (with SSL): 995
POP3 (with TLS/STARTTLS): 110
SMTP (with SSL): 465
SMTP (with TLS/STARTTLS): 25
Note: Preferred setup for SMTP server should be SSL with authentication. This should allow you to send from almost anywhere. For IMAP and POP, it doesn’t matter whether you use TLS or SSL. In all cases you will get warnings about the certificate because it is self signed. This is ok, and you should choose to accept it permanently (although it will expire).
Note: From some “hotspots”, only web traffic is allowed, so you must revert to the webmail interface there.
Note: If you are going to go back and forth between using the web interface and using an email client, you probably want to use IMAP, which stores all of your messages on the server. You might choose to do this anyways, such that you have a backup copy of your email.
