Iron Mountain Hosting is pleased to announce a further security enhancement available to all users of our email services.

We now use SSL/TLS encryption to secure all our outgoing and incoming mail whenever the responding server accepts it. In addition, users can take advantage of a more secure connection by setting up SSL/TLS encryption in their email settings.

Please follow this guide for setting up email in Outlook 2007.

For existing mail accounts:

1) Open up your Outlook and go to Account Settings and select the account you wish to enable SSL on

2) Click the CHANGE button which will open up a new Pop-Up box

3) Now click on Require secure authentication (SPA) if you like and then click More Settings

4) Now a new Internet E-Mail settings box will pop up with a few tabs across the top. As this is an existing mail account, all you will have to change is the Outgoing Server tab and the Advanced Tab. So first the Outgoing server tab, change it so it looks like this

Now, let’s change the Advanced Settings tab to look like this (NOTE: For IMAP, use port 993 instead of Pop3 995):

5) Once you have made those changes click OK. Then on the next screen, just click TEST ACCOUNT settings. Outlook will then ask you if you want to accept the SSL/Security certificate…say YES or Accept the certificate.

If all is well, the server will run a send and receive test and tell you that it passed the test. Just click next and FINISHED.