Client settings
This page gives mail client settings for email hosted on our Hosting Accounts. These settings apply only to accounts hosted on:
- onza.mythic-beasts.com
- yali.mythic-beasts.com
- lynx.mythic-beasts.com
- ocelot.mythic-beasts.com
Incoming
Email for your domain
If you have a domain hosted with us, you can configure additional mailboxes to receive mail using the Control Panel for your host.
You can retrieve mail for additional mailboxes using either IMAP (recommended) or POP3. The required settings are:
| Server name: | onza.mythic-beasts.com or yali.mythic-beasts.com or lynx.mythic-beasts.com or ocelot.mythic-beasts.com |
|---|---|
| Port: | 993 for IMAP (or 995 for POP3) |
| Connection Security: | TLS (may also be labelled SSL) |
| Username: | The full email address for the mailbox |
| Password: | Mailbox password, as set in the control panel |
If your client offers an option to "Encrypt Password", or to use "Secure Password Authentication", then this should not be selected. Don't worry; the entire connection is encrypted (because of the TLS / SSL setting) so your password will not be sent in clear text.
Account email
Every account starts with a single mailbox called the User mailbox. This
is the destination for email addressed to
username@server.mythic-beasts.com, where
server is one of yali, onza, lynx or ocelot. You may also
have configured other email addresses to deliver to this mailbox.
The settings for the user mailbox are as follows:
| Server name: | onza.mythic-beasts.com or yali.mythic-beasts.com or |
|---|---|
| Port: | 993 for IMAP (or 995 for POP3) |
| Connection Security: | TLS (may also be labelled SSL) |
| Username: | The username for your account |
| Password: | Your account password |
Please see the note below if you are using IMAP on an Apple product.
Outgoing email
Outgoing mail is sent using Authenticated SMTP. You can authenticate using the username and password for any mailbox for any domain hosted with us - it does not need to match the address that you are sending from. Please note that you cannot use your main account username and password—you must configure an additional mailbox for your domain.
The required settings are as follows:
| Server name: | smtp-auth.mythic-beasts.com |
|---|---|
| Port: | 587 |
| Connection Security: | STARTTLS (the right option may alse be labelled just TLS or SSL) |
| Username: | The full email address for any mailbox for a domain that you have with us |
| Password: | The password for the mailbox |
If your client offers an option to "Encrypt Password", or to use "Secure Password Authentication", then this should not be selected. Don't worry; the entire connection is encrypted (because of the TLS / SSL setting) so your password will not be sent in clear text.