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# General Email Settings

Plesk general email settings for your mail program.

Username or Account ID: **<alias@domainname.co.uk>**

Password: As you set it when adding the [account to plesk](https://youtaccount.nimbushosting.co.uk/knowledgebase/3/Create-a-mailbox.html).

Incoming/POP/IMAP server: mail.'domainname.co.uk\*\*\*\*\*'

Outgoing/SMTP server: mail.'domainname.co.uk\*\*\*\*\*'

**\*** Where domainname.co.uk is replaced by your domain name for the email account.

Security settings:

My Outgoing server requires authentication (**On**), to use the same username and password as incoming mail server.

Use SSL (**Off**), this is not required.

Default Ports:

POP: 110

IMAP: 143

SMTP: 25 or 587

**Note**: Your Plesk server with Nimbus is capable of being used as a basic mail server, but the ongoing battle between spam management, hacking and blacklisting means that Office 365 and Google Apps are the go-to platforms if email is critical to your business/site. [Read more here.](https://www.nimbushosting.co.uk/blog/office-365-google-apps-the-future-of-email "Office 365/Google Apps for Mail")