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:

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:

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:

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.