Opera 6

Article No. 184
Created: 04:03 AM 12.26.03
Author: HPU Support [Link: support@homepageuniverse.com]
Original URL: https://my.homepageuniverse.com/support/knowledgebase/question.php?qstId=184

Opera 6 is one of many POP3/IMAP email clients available for the Windows OS. The basic setup instruction to work with email here are listed for you to use this email client.

From the Email menu, choose New accounts. This will open the Email account properties box, where you will want to enter the following: Account Tab Account name: Your Account Name Full name: Your Name Email address: Your Email Address Organization: (Optional) Reply-To: (Optional) Servers Tab Incoming Server: yoursite.com Protocol: POP3 Port: 110 Username: Your Email Username Password: Your Email Password Outgoing Server: yoursite.com Protocol: SMTP Port: 25   Server Authentication Opera 6 does not support Server Authentication, which you'll need to send email through our servers. However, the following work-around is posted on their site and copied here) under their Knowledge Base [Link: http://www.opera.com/support/supsearch/supsearch.cgi?options=index&name=531]. Check the following options under the Outgoing Tab: Queueing Queue e-mail (do not send immediately) Send queued e-mail after checking e-mail Congratulations, you've now setup Opera 6 to use your email account. Repeat the above steps to setup further email accounts.

*After completing these steps you should be able to send and receive email via this account. If you can't send emails that means your ISP is most likely blocking your Outgoing Mail server port 25 (default). You can change that port to 26 if you have Linux hosting with us or to port 465 if you have Windows hosting with us.

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