Following are the SMTP settings for the most popular email services. Please be aware that we are unable to provide technical support relating to mail server connectivity
Apple Mail/iCloud
| Sender Name | Your Name |
| Sender Email | Your Email |
| SMTP Host | smtp.mail.me.com |
| SMTP Port | 587 |
| SMTP User | Your Email |
| SMTP Password | Your Email Password |
| Requires SSL | Yes |
Hotmail/Outlook
| Sender Name | Your Name |
| Sender Email | Your Email |
| SMTP Host | smtp.live.com |
| SMTP Port | 587 |
| SMTP User | Your Email |
| SMTP Password | Your Email Password |
| Requires SSL | Yes |
Yahoo
| Sender Name | Your Name |
| Sender Email | Your Email |
| SMTP Host | smtp.mail.yahoo.com |
| SMTP Port | 465 or 587 |
| SMTP User | Your Email |
| SMTP Password | Your Email Password |
| Requires SSL | Yes |
GMail
| Sender Name | Your Name |
| Sender Email | Your Email |
| SMTP Host | smtp.googlemail.com |
| SMTP Port | 587 |
| SMTP User | Your Email |
| SMTP Password | Your Email Password |
| Requires SSL | Yes |
As part of Google's ongoing attempts to make GMail more secure they have recently introduced a series of measures intended to mitigate the threat from malicious applications.
Occasionally, GMail will flag up the WriteUpp connection as "insecure" and as a result it will not permit us to connect. You can turn off this extra level of validation by following the instructions in this Google Article:
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en
If you have problems connecting with Gmail you also wish to take a look at the article below:
SMTP Troubleshooting (for Gmail)
123-Reg
| Sender Name | Your Name |
| Sender Email | Your Email |
| SMTP Host | smtp.123-reg.co.uk |
| SMTP Port | 25 or 587 |
| SMTP User | Your Email |
| SMTP Password | Your Email Password |
| Requires SSL | Off |
There are one or two known issues associated with using 123-reg but thankfully they have produced a very useful support article, which you can read here if you are experiencing problems authenticating.
If your provider is not listed please contact your email provider. Much as we'd like to help we can't provide support for your email service :-)
Please be aware that all email providers are not equal. Many hosting providers (like 123-reg, Fasthosts & GoDaddy) offer email as an after thought and don't have the same infrastructure, resilience, technical support and security as the services provided by Apple, Google and Microsoft. If you are having problems using SMTP with one of the less popular providers we would recommend using a service like Google Apps.
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