Secure Email via IMAPs, SMTPs, and POP3s now Supported by SiteGround

SiteGround web hosting company has recently announced launch of secured IMAP, POP3 and SMTP services. As part of its main goal to ensure the most secure and reliable web hosting environment, the company has dedicated time and resources into upgrading its email service by implementing an encrypted connection (via SSL) for sending (SMTPs), receiving (POP3s) and reading emails (IMAPs).

With the rapid growth of security risks during data transmission, especially on mobile and wireless networks, email security is getting more and more important for everyone. That is why, SiteGround now provides for its customers SSL-encrypted connection for checking and sending emails. Thanks to Secure IMAP (IMAPs), POP3 (POP3s), and SMTP (SMTPs), all incoming and outgoing communication from and to a remote mail server is encrypted. This means that all the information sent or received by email is converted into a form called Ciphertext and as a result cannot be intercepted or hacked by third parties. This significantly reduces the risk of password thefts and data sniffing.

SiteGround has also once again shown care for its customers by not just introducing the new services, but also making sure that everyone will be able to implement them easily on their hosting accounts. SiteGround Team has prepared useful articles to help customers enable the new services with just a few mouse clicks. Detailed tutorials for the most popular mail clients have been created to make customer experience easier than ever.

“Security and reliability of service is an ever-increasing concern for everyone. Here at SiteGround we are well aware of this and are constantly working for upgrading the security of our hosting service.” says Anatoly Dimitrov, Senior Support Team member and leader of the project. “We believe that the introduction of IMAPs, POP3s, and SMTPs is a great benefit for our customers that guarantees secure and safe email environment”, added Anatoly.

The introduction of SSL-secured email services once again has shown that SiteGround is constantly working towards the improvement of its services and aiming perseveringly at protecting its customers’ privacy and security in the best possible way.

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Hristo Pandjarov

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Greg

Jul 25, 2022

Your email settings still say to use "mail.customerdomain.com" as the servers, which of course are NOT covered by the security certificates.

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Gergana Zhecheva Siteground Team

Jul 26, 2022

The Email Accounts section in Site Tools always shows the correct/current email settings. Clients whose domains are not pointing to our Central DNS will have to use the web host servers displayed under "EMAIL CONFIGURATION" section. Each of these servers is covered with a security certificate.

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Adam

Nov 02, 2023

I have a couple of questions that we are being asked and I can't see an obvious answer to: 1) Does your inbound email infrastructure support Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 with cipher suites with forward secrecy (e.g. ECDHE)? 2) Does your outbound email infrastructure use Opportunistic TLS (STARTTLS) to request remote servers upgrade to an encrypted connection?

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Gabriela Andonova Siteground Team

Nov 02, 2023

Hi there, Adam! Thanks for reaching out with your questions. Yes, our inbound email infrastructure supports TLS 1.2 with forward secrecy (ECDHE) and our outbound email infrastructure uses Opportunistic TLS (STARTTLS) for encrypted connections. If you have any more questions, please feel free to contact our team directly via our 24/7 live chat. We're here to assist you with any inquiries you may have!

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