Black Box IT Pro LNA1000A, User Manual

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Email Services
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All users in your office have their own mail address and mailbox hosted on the ISP’s
server. Your ISP supplies you with the name of the POP3 or IMAP server where your
mail has to be retrieved and with the address for the SMTP mail delivery server. Enter
this address into the appropriate field during the configuration of your mail client.
Using your Black Box® IT Pro™ as an SMTP server (even if your mail is hosted by an
ISP) has its advantages, especially if you often send large messages or if you have a slow
Internet connection. Your email client may be tied up for minutes or even hours if you
attempt to send a large email message to an ISP’s SMTP server. If you use your Black
Box® IT Pro™ as an SMTP server, large files are quickly transferred over the high-speed
LAN. Although a file is then slowly transferred over your Internet connection, your email
client is free to perform other tasks.
Enter the following information when configuring your email client:
• In the SMTP server field, enter the IP address or host name provided to you by
your ISP. Alternatively, use your Black Box® IT Pro™ as the SMTP server and
enter the IP address or host name of your Black Box® IT Pro™.
• In the POP3 or IMAP server field, enter the IP address or host name provided to
you by your ISP.
• In the POP3 or IMAP mailbox name field, enter the first part of your email
address. For example, if your email address is
johndoe@example.com
, enter
johndoe into this field.
• In the POP3 or IMAP password field, enter the password provided to you by your
ISP.
2.
If your mail is hosted on your Black Box® IT Pro™...
Enter the following information when configuring your email client:
• In the SMTP server field, enter the IP address or host name of your Black Box®
IT Pro™. You do not need to enter the domain name.