Email Setup
To change your email account password (defaults to password) perform the following:
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Go to the Aplus.Net Control Panel login page at http://cp.aplus.net.
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Select e-Mail Address for a method of login using the respective Drop-Down menu.
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Use your own email address as a username and its associated email password.
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Click on your own email box available on the Email Box Management page.
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Select the Change E-mail Password icon.
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Enter the new password for this account into the Password fields. Good passwords contain a combination of letters (both lowercase and uppercase), punctuation, and numbers and should be reasonably difficult to guess.
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Click Change to submit the new password. Click Cancel to escape.
Generic Settings
To setup your email to be used with a 3rd party email client use the following information:
Account type: POP3.
Account name (Username): your entire email address, including @wangosaurusrex.com.
Password: the password that you set when you changed your e-mail box password in the Aplus.Net Control Panel.
Incoming Mail Server: mail.wangosaurusrex.com.
Incoming Server Port and Connections settings – you have the following options:
- Port 110 with regular connection (without SSL).
- Port 110 with secure connection over TLS.
- Port 995 with secure connection over SSL.
Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.wangosaurusrex.com.
Authentication – Turn on Outgoing Server Authentication and use the username and password as specified in 2 and 3.
SMTP Port and Connection settings - you have two options:
- Outgoing (SMTP) mail port: 465. You have to use SSL secured connection for the Outgoing mail server.
- Outgoing (SMTP) mail port: 587. You have to use TLS secured connection for the Outgoing mail server.
- Note: If you have configured your email client to receive messages over a secure connection (step5), it is possible that your email client displays a warning message concerning the Secure Certificate installed on the mail server. In order to avoid this warning message, you can replace the incoming mail server (mail.wangosaurusrex.com) with the email server name: pro37.abac.com.