Help Protect Your Email with SSL

Excepted from www.nyu.edu/its/email/ssl/

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a protocol that helps ensure the privacy of documents transmitted over the Internet, including email messages. Once activated, SSL encrypts your incoming messages, ensuring that passwords and other private information can not be intercepted in transit. If you use an email client other than NYUHome to check your NYU email, activating SSL is quick and easy, and ITS strongly recommends (and will soon require) that you do so as soon as possible.

Once you have configured your preferred email program to access your NYUHome email (see www.nyu.edu/its/email/configure/) follow the instructions below to activate SSL. If you do not see your email client listed below, visit the ITS website for additional instructions: www.nyu.edu/its/email/ssl/.

WINDOWS XP

Eudora 7 for Windows XP

Eudora 7

1. Open Eudora, click the Tools menu, and select Options.
2. In the Options window that opens, select the Checking Mail category on the left. Then, on the right, open the pull-down menu below "Secure Sockets when Receiving" and select Required, Alternate Port.
3. Click OK to save the changes, then quit and restart Eudora to ensure that these settings take effect.

Outlook Express 6

1. Open Outlook Express and click the Inbox icon on the left to highlight it. Next, open the Tools menu and select Accounts...


Outlook Express 6 for Windows XP

2. In the Internet Accounts window that opens, select the Mail tab, then click Properties on the right.
3. In the Properties window that opens, click the Advanced tab. Under Incoming mail, check the box next to This server requires a secure connection (SSL). Do not check the similar box under "Outgoing mail (SMTP)".
4. Click Apply, then OK. Click Close to exit the Internet Accounts window and save your settings. Quit and restart Outlook Express to ensure that these changes take effect.

Thunderbird 1.5

1. Open Thunderbird, select your inbox on the left, then open the Tools menu and select Account Settings...


Thunderbird 1.5 for Windows XP

2. In the Account Settings window that opens, select Server Settings from the options on the left, then, on the right, click the Eudora 7 for Windows XP Outlook Express 6 for Windows XP radio button next to SSL in the Security Settings section on the right. Do not check the "Use secure authentication" option.
3. Click OK in both windows to save the changes, then quit and restart Thunderbird to ensure that these changes take effect.

MACINTOSH OS X

Thunderbird 1.5

Thunderbird 1.5 for Macintosh OS X

1. Open Thunderbird, then open the Tools menu and select Account Settings...
2. In the window that opens, select Server Settings from the options on the left, then, on the right, click the radio button next to SSL. Do not check the "Use secure authentication" option.
3. Click OK to save the changes and close the window, then quit and restart Thunderbird to ensure that these changes take effect.

Eudora 6.2

Eudora 6.2 for Macintosh OS X

Please note: Apple Keychain must be installed on your computer to complete these instructions. SSL is not supported for Mac OS 10.0 or 10.

1. Open Eudora, then open the Special menu and select Settings...
2. In the Settings window that opens, select SSL from the menu on the left. Then, in the Secure Sockets Layer area, select Required (Alternate Port) from the pull-down menus in the "SSL for POP" and "SSL for IMAP" fields. Leave all the other options set to the default options.
3. Click OK to save the changes and close the Settings window, then quit and restart Eudora before using it. Note: When you check your mail for the first time, a window will open asking whether you would like to add a new SSL certificate to your keychain; click OK.

Apple Mail 1.3 & 2.1

Apple Mail for Macintosh OS X

1. Open Apple Mail, select your Inbox on the left, then select Preferences from the Mail drop-down menu.
2. In the window that opens, select Accounts at the top, then select the Advanced tab. Check the box next to Use SSL. Make sure that Password is selected in the Authentication menu.
3. Exit from the Preferences and save your settings, then quit and restart Apple Mail.

See www.nyu.edu/its/email/ssl/ for additional email program instructions.