Thanks again for assistance, much do not understand the point you are trying to make. ' the unencrypted port 587 for outgoing emails, not the encrypted port 995'

Should I change the setup to as described in that thread ? This suggests SSL/TLS can be used for incoming and outgoing email if I read it correctly, which seems preferable regarding security ? However, I saw a thread on the forum 'SSL on IMAP/POP3/SMTP (again)' Not tried to go into my emails yet though. I set the encryption on outgoing mail to Auto So I changed the setting to as per email guide in plusnet, 'This server requires encrypted connection SLL/TLS is ticked We couldn't log in to the incoming (POP) server. It brings up a dialogue box 'something went wrong'. Outlooks gives “security warning – security certificate cannot be verified” as before I tried after seeing it in the 'manage my settings' section of my webmail summary tab 'Could not login to the incoming POP server' 'The server you are connected to is using a security certificate that cannot be verified'

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