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=Brief Overview= In short, we recommend that all customers use [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security TLS] (Also known as STARTTLS) when sending email through our servers,. ~~here~~Here are our recommended settings, which you may want to check against the settings that you currently have in your email program: {\| class="wikitable" !colspan="3"\|Outgoing email settings =TLS= This article asis about enabling TLS in your existing email program when sending email through the AAISP email servers (smtp.aa.net.uk). If you are setting up an email program from scratch then simply select/tick the options to use TLS or STARTTLS. This page gives help when you want to edit an existing account to enable TLS. ==Why do this?== \|- !A&A Broadband \|Optional, but ~~Recommended~~recommended \|Optional, but ~~Recommended~~recommended \|587 \|- == Mutt == Mutt will ~~your~~make use of your machine's local MTA (e.g. sendmail, exim, postfix etc.) - so look at the documentation for that for more information. Typically, you can enable TLS with the following entries in your .muttrc: