{"id":483,"date":"2012-01-28T18:03:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T22:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tfr.info-safety.com\/?p=483"},"modified":"2012-01-28T18:03:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T22:03:43","slug":"securing-your-verizon-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tfr.info-safety.com\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"Securing Your Verizon Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Verizon upgraded its residential email servers to use secure, i.e., encrypted, connections.\u00a0 This is very important to the security of your email, particularly if you use public wireless networks.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the new settings, as copied from <a href=\"http:\/\/www22.verizon.com\/residentialhelp\/fiosinternet\/email\/setup+and+use\/questionsone\/86782.htm\">http:\/\/www22.verizon.com\/residentialhelp\/fiosinternet\/email\/setup+and+use\/questionsone\/86782.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Mail server settings<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Incoming mail server (<a id=\"LinkTo23472\" title=\"What is POP3?\" href=\"http:\/\/www22.verizon.com\/ResidentialHelp\/HighSpeed\/Email\/Setup+And+Use\/QuestionsOne\/85540.htm\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">POP3<\/span><\/a>): <strong><em>incoming.verizon.net<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Incoming Server Port Numbers: <strong>995<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Outgoing mail server (<a id=\"LinkTo16967\" title=\"What is SMTP?\" href=\"http:\/\/www22.verizon.com\/ResidentialHelp\/HighSpeed\/Email\/Profile+Settings\/QuestionsOne\/85658.htm\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">SMTP<\/span><\/a>): <strong><em>outgoing.verizon.net<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Outgoing Server Port Numbers: <strong>465 \u00a0<\/strong><a id=\"LinkTo44440\" href=\"http:\/\/www22.verizon.com\/ResidentialHelp\/HighSpeed\/Email\/Setup+And+Use\/QuestionsOne\/124274.htm\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Why is this important?<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Your Verizon Online user name<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Your Verizon Online password<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Make sure &#8220;This server requires a secure connection (SSL)&#8221; is checked.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now would be a good time to change to the more secure settings,\u00a0 AFTER taking note of your current settings, in case there is a problem.\u00a0 These new settings should work with Outlook, Outlook Express, and Thunderbird, as well as on Android phones and the iPhone.\u00a0 Among possible causes of incompatibility with the more secure settings include blocked ports at the firewall, VPNs and proxies.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t feel comfortable reconfiguring your email software, you should ask your IT support person for assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Verizon upgraded its residential email servers to use secure, i.e., encrypted, connections.\u00a0 This is very important to the security of your email, particularly if you use public wireless networks. Here are the new settings, as copied from http:\/\/www22.verizon.com\/residentialhelp\/fiosinternet\/email\/setup+and+use\/questionsone\/86782.htm Mail server settings Incoming mail server (POP3): incoming.verizon.net Incoming Server Port Numbers: 995 Outgoing mail server [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-security","category-privacy","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tfr.info-safety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tfr.info-safety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tfr.info-safety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tfr.info-safety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tfr.info-safety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/tfr.info-safety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/tfr.info-safety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tfr.info-safety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tfr.info-safety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tfr.info-safety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}