Enable TLS on smtp.aa.net.uk: Difference between revisions

TLS stands for Transport Layer Security - it is similar to https web pages in that the data sent between your email program is sent securely. This is good as it prevents local eaves droppers between your computer an our servers from seeing your data (and even your username/password credentials if sending using authentication). andTLS italso helps confirm that the server you are talking to really is our server and not an impostor on 'man-in-the-middle' as the certificate is tied to the name 'smtp.aa.net.uk' and your email program should give a warning if the certificate does not match.

It is useful to know that enabling TLS in your email program only affects how you send email to our servers. Once we have received your email we will then send it onwards to the recipients email server. Where possible our servers will also use TLS but if the recipient server does not support TLS then the email will be sent without any encryption. Beyond that it's outside of your or our control.