Do you support SSL encrypted connections?

SSL stands for 'Secure Sockets Layer' - this works by using a public key to encrypt and protect the confidentiality and security of data being transmitted between your email program and our servers.

There are a few things to be aware of with SSL connections:

• SSL (encrypted) sessions only encrypt the connection between your machine and our servers - we then would still have to send the email on to the recipient unencrypted. If you required a secure end-to-end solution then digital signatures and full encryption of your emails is recommended.
• If you are mainly concerned with protecting your AuthSMTP username / password - most email programs will already use methods like CRAM-MD5 to encode / encrypt the username and password.
• Messages sent using SSL cause much greater load on our servers, may be slower to send and are not recommended for high volume use (mailing lists etc.) or from trusted locations.
• Important: Due to the extra server resources required to process SSL messages they are charged at a higher rate - this is equivalent to adding an extra recipient to the message that you sent - here are some examples:

* This is the total amount of data received which may be greater than the size of the email on your computer due, the difference is due to the message encoding required to transport the message from your computer across the Internet. You can find more information about this in the following FAQ - Why do my messages grow in size when I send them via AuthSMTP?

To enable SSL functionality for your AuthSMTP account login to the Control Panel.

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