Email Client

From SEDSWiki

SEDS provides POP, IMAP, SMTP and Webmail services.

In all cases, the "server" should be entered as "SEDS.org"

You can use SSL/TLS authentication to port 587.

If possible, try not to use authentication methods which use "plaintext". IMAP and POP SSL are available, and SMTP-AUTH is available for sending email. The SSL certificate that is provided on SEDS is self-signed, and as such, might generate an error or a confirmation dialog in your client. It is okay to accept it. (Provide link here to certificate). When sending via SMTP-AUTH, you can use LOGIN, or CRAM-MD5 authentication.

Webmail services are available at https://seds.org/webmail/ -- Again, the note about the self-signed certificate applies.

Apple Mail.app and Self Signed Certs

Here are some brief instructions for how to make Apple Mail.app stop giving you an error about the cert (many other mail clients allow you to check a box to ignore the error).

The first time you check your SSL-enabled mail, an alert will likely appear notifying you that the certificate from the mail server is not from a root certificate authority. That's no problem. The certificate needs to be added to the X509Anchors keychain so that you will not be prompted each time the client encounters it. Here are the instructions to do that with Mail 2.0.

• When the certificate notification pops up, click the Show Certificate button.
• Drag the certificate icon to the desktop.
• Double-click the non-descript certificate icon (ending in .cer) that you just placed on the desktop. Keychain Access should appear.
• A dialog will appear asking if you want to add the new certificate to a keychain. Select the X509Anchors keychain from the drop-down and press OK.

You should no longer be prompted to accept the certificate. Mail will now accept it automatically because it's contained in the X509Anchors keychain.