E-Mail

If you’re looking for information about connecting to your email account with ActionMailer, please see Deployment.

Adding a New Email Account

1. Login to the VHCS control panel
2. Add a new email account

IMAP or POP3

IMAP is recommended

Incoming

• Inbound server: your hosting server. (e.g. a server name ending in .planetargon.com) Look at your account info email for specifics.
• Name: (your first and last name)
• ID: Fully qualified user name. (e.g. nospam@rapidred.com)
• Password: your password

Outgoing

• Outbound server: your hosting server. (e.g. a server name ending in .planetargon.com) Look at your account info email for specifics.
• Server port: 25 (not the default on my mail system)
• Use SSL: unchecked
• Authentication: On os x, select md5 (unless you are on ion, then choose ‘Password’). For action mailer, select “login authentication”.
• User name: Fully qualified user name. (e.g. nospam@rapidred.com)
• Password: your password

Tips and Tricks

• Filtering SPAM in your mail client
• SMTP Over Port 250—if port 25 isn’t working for outgoing email, try port 250