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Configuring Opera for IMAP

We recommend using IMAP instead of POP for accessing your incoming email. Pop configurations will often delete mail from the server, making it unavailable to other devices or computers you would use to access your email. With IMAP, you can access your mail using your computer and smartphone, and keep mail syncronized between devices.

Important note: In the description below, we use you@yourdomain.com and yourdomain.com as your email address and domain name. You need to substitute of course your real email address and domain name.

About Secure Sockets Layer (SSL): In the instructions below, we are not enabling SSL. If you wish to connect to the incoming IMAP and outgoing SMTP server using encryption, then leave these enabled. There will not be an SSL certificate on the server to match mail.yourdomain.com or imap.yourdomain.com, so your mail program will warn you that you are connecting without a certificate. Confirm the exception when this happens.

1. With Opera open, click on the "Mail" menu, then click on "New account"

   

2. Click on "IMAP", then click "Next >"

   

3. Enter the name you want displayed when you send email in the "Real name" box, and enter your email address in the "E-mail address" box. The organization name is optional. # Click "Next >"

   

4. Enter your email address in the "Login name" box. Enter the password for your email account in the "Password" box. Click "Next >"

   

5. The "Incoming server" and "Outgoing server" boxes will be filled in for you. The incoming server should be "mail.yourdomain.com". You can leave it as that or change to your server name (ahsX.R4L.com) where X is a number. If the outgoing server is not smtp.yourdomain.com, then change it to that or your server name (ahsX.R4L.com) where X is a number. Click "Finish"

   

6. Click on the "Mail" menu, then click on "Manage accounts"

   

7. Click on the account you just created, then click "Edit"

   

8. Click on the "Servers" tab of the window that pops up

   

9. In the "Outgoing SMTP server" section, click on the drop-down box next to "Authentication" and select "Auto" from the list. Change the outgoing port to 587. Enter the email address in the "Username" box and the password in the "Password" box. Click "OK"

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2. Click "Close"

   

3. Now when you're composing a new email message, you can select which account to send the message from.

   

That's it! Opera is now configured and ready to use with your R4L email account.