How To Configure Your Computer's E-Mail Settings =>SMTP =>IMAP =>POP3

To configure an MUA (email client or mail user agent):

The e-me.ca  outgoing mail server is smtp.e-me.ca
The e-me.ca  incoming POP3 mail server is pop3.e-me.ca
The e-me.ca  incoming IMAP mail server is imap.e-me.ca

On this e-me.ca Security Settings Page:

• When to use SMTPS, POP3S, IMAPS
• What is SMTPS, POP3S, IMAPS?
•  Full encryption services 
• SMTP authentication

Special E-Mail Security Settings

When to use SMTPS, POP3S, IMAPS:

1. You have extreme security issues where your connection to the email server might be monitored.
2. You are concerned about your password being seen by a snoop. Reading mail with secure POP and secure SMTP does protect your passwords.
3. Your ISP blocks any or all of ports 25, 110/143.
4. You just like the novelty of using Secure Socket Layers (SSL) for your mail.

What is SMTPS, POP3S, IMAPS.

1. If you understand security settings a little, this will help you use alternate port numbers and Secure Socket Layers wherein all mail content passing between your computer and the server will be encryted and unreadable to any interceptor including the likes of the FBI and other such watchdog organizations who do not under any circumstances have lawful authority to observe in any way our mail traffic. Read into that what you like.
2. Once mail has been sent by our servers using SMTP which is the standard simple mail transfer protocol, it is unencrypted and readable by anyone. That's just how it works. 
3. We can control and encrypt the traffic for the connection between your computer and our servers. Here's how: 

Servers offer full encryption services for mail traffic between your computer and our servers.

• You may use Port 995 for secure POP3S 
• You may use Port 993 for secure IMAPS 
• You may use Port 465 for secure S SMTP

Important:

1. Use SMTP Authentication if you like. E-ME servers will authenticate you on your IP address and your IMAP or POP3 login credentials regardless ('POP before SMTP'). Before you can send mail you must first retrieve your mail (initial login). By setting "My server requires authentication" to "yes" or "checked" you force your computer to authenticate each individual "send" session with your username and password -- which are the same used for fetching mail.
2. SMTP authentication is recommended unless your computer/MUA is unable to do this correctly (some Microsoft products are notoriously bad at this). If SMTP authentication is failing, uncheck the box. You may find that it works in Outlook and Thunderbird but not in older versions of Outlook Express. Also Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 7 and Outlook Express Version 7 are a whole new ball game.
3. Do not use what some email clients call 'secure' or 'TLS' SMTP outgoing authentication but instead use SSMTP (see above) which is far more secure and more reliable because it encrypts *all communication* between the PC and the server instead of just the password.