InstallationGo Daddy e-mail settings
Posted on December 23rd, 2008
To configure your email account on most email clients this is the information you need. Please remember to setup your incoming and outgoing ports and to use your complete email account as username.
Username
It will be your complete email address e.g. email@example.com
Password
The password associated with that specific account
Incoming Mail Server
pop.secureserver.net
Outgoing Mail Server
smtpout.secureserver.net
The next step is important, if you do not setup the incoming and outgoing ports your email account will not be able to send or receive messages.
Incoming Port
The normal incoming port is 110
The SSL incoming port is 995
Outgoing Port
The normal outgoing port is 25, 80 or 3535
The SSL incoming port is 465
Note: If you don’t know what SSL is you probably won’t need it.
Email spam
Posted on February 6th, 2007Email Spam
You’ve seen them as messages about a missing girl or about world hunger/poverty or even about 9/11, email messages that will touch your heart which only purpose is to generate internet spam. I can say confidently that 99.9% of email forwards are spam generators.
What is spam?
Scott Hazen defines spam as flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message, in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise choose to receive it.
You might be asking yourself if it is so bad, why is it allowed?
When e-mail was invented, it was used to send short messages between government agencies and universities, they never expected it would grow to the monster it is today, as always, advertisers are thinking of ways of reaching you and your money, they see email, they think opportunity and that is how spam was born.
How does it work?
Every time someone sends an email forward it includes the email addresses of all the recipients, these recipients forward the message to an even larger list and it creates a snowball effect, if that long list of email falls into the hands of a email marketer you can declare your email address officially dead. It will be bombarded with emails such as “Would you like to refinance your home?” or “Viagra or Cialis for free” or “Free pharmaceuticals” which will make your email address impossible to use.
At one time I ran at experiment with spam and an email address, in less than a month I was receiving over 350 spam email PER DAY!!
How does it affect you or me?
Email spam is a waste of time, it takes time to clean your inbox everyday, specially when your email address is being targeted and you get more than 10 spam emails a day, we all know time is money, so you are getting hit directly where it hurts the most, your wallet.
Also, some users get viruses through those emails they receive later and some even become victims of identity theft which costs the industry 1 billion dollars a year. In 2006 there where over 27.3 million victims of identity theft in the U.S.
What should I do?
First, refuse to receive forwards, every time you get an email forward from someone you know, write them back, explain to them in a nice way what email forwards only generate spam and expose your email address to marketers and spammers.
How to detect a bad email forward?
Bad email forwards have 2 main characteristics:
- They contain instructions for the recipient to send it to as many people as he or she can. (or a limited number like 10 or 20, etc.)
- When you open the email they contain a list of emails all bunched up as part of the message.
Conclusion
No matter who is dying of cancer or how much money they promise you, never under any circumstance send email forwards, unless you like to help marketers and spammers.
Custom email accounts
Posted on December 5th, 2006For people who signed up for custom email accounts with GoDaddy here are two ways to login to your account. One is using your domain and the other one is by using the direct link to it.
Please have username and password ready.
