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The Clients:
Eudora 5.1+
Outlook Express 5.0+
Outlook 2000
Forte Agent
KMail
We're currently working on documentation for Mozilla/Netscape Mail
Eudora
Notes: This setup is specific to Eudora 5.1. It may or may not apply to other versions.
Anonymity Note: For modifying the way Eudora handles message-id's on your out-going mail, check out this document.
To setup SMTP (outgoing) in Eudora 5.1:
Click the "personalities" tab
Right Click in the personalities frame, when the menu appears, click "new".
Select "Create a brand new email account", click next.
Name the account, for the use of this document, the name will be "Cotse". Click next.
Enter your name, click next.
Enter the desired address to be shown (this doesn't have to be your Cotse address), click next.
Enter your Cotse login name. Just the name, no @cotse.net. Click next.
Incoming server is: pop.cotse.com, select "pop" (default) click next.
Outgoing server is: www.cotse.net, allow authentication, click next.
Click "finish"
A dialog will appear requesting your password, if you wish to setup SSL Email, click cancel and proceed to the instructions below this paragraph, otherwise enter your password and you are finished with Eudora setup (PLEASE NOTE: Not setting up SSL Email will leave your email vulnerable. Cotse has provided you with SSL POP and SSL SMTP to protect your privacy. Follow the guidelines below to set this up).
Eudora SSL Setup:
Anonymity Note: For modifying the way Eudora handles message-id's on your out-going mail, check out this document.
Right click on the newly created account and click properties.
In the "secure sockets when sending" pull-down box, select "Required, Alternate Port or If available Start TLS or Required, Start TLS".
Select the "incoming mail" tab at the top.
In the "secure sockets when sending" pull-down box, select "Required, Alternate Port or If available Start TLS or Required, Start TLS".
Compose a new email, sending it to your new Cotse account.
to: yourusername@cotse.net
Send the email (NOTE: An error will occur, this is normal).
Click "Check Mail" (NOTE: Another error will occur, this is normal).
Click "personalities" tab again.
Right click the newly created Cotse account.
Click "Last SSL Info"
Click "Certificate Information Manager"
Highlight the Certificate matching "--, MA, Worcester, Packetderm, Cotse, www.cotse.net, helpdesk@cotse.net"
Click "Add to Trusted"
Click "Done", Click "ok"
Click "Incoming Email" tab
Click "Last SSL Info"
Click "Certificate Information Manager"
Highlight the Certificate matching "--, MA, Worcester, Packetderm, Cotse, www.cotse.net, helpdesk@cotse.net"
Click "Add to Trusted"
Next you need to authorize the use of the www.cotse.net certificate:
Highlight the Certificate matching "--, MA, Worcester, Packetderm, Cotse, www.cotse.net, helpdesk@cotse.net"
Click "Add to Trusted"
Click "Done", Click "ok"
Now you should be ready to send and receive via SSL.
Click "Get Mail"
You should now be able to send and receive mail via Eudora. If something doesn't work, please go over the steps above again, making sure everything is set correctly.
NOTE: If you have trouble with Eudora SSL, you may want to try out our "alternate" Eudora Configuration Page. Eudora behaves differently, depending upon each person's setup. The alternate page deals with one or more of these "alternate" configurations.
Please click here for the Alternate Configuration Page.
Outlook Express
First, you must setup Outlook Express as a standard SMTP/POP client for Cotse email.
1. Open Outlook Express.
2. Click Tools ---> Accounts ---> Mail ---> Add ---> Mail
3. Enter in the name you wish to use with the account. Click Next
4. Enter in the email address you wish to use with the account. Click Next
5. Your incoming mail server is POP3
6. Your Pop Server is: pop.cotse.com
7. Your SMTP Server is: www.cotse.net
8. Click Next
9. Enter in your Cotse account name.
10. Click Next
11. Click Finish.
You should now be configured to use Outlook Express with Cotse SMTP/POP email.
Continue on to the SSL setup portion if you wish to use SSL POP/SMTP.
Outlook Express SSL Setup
If you have already setup your smtp/pop account in Outlook Express, please follow these instructions for SSL pop/smtp.
1. On the "Tools" menu, select "Accounts..."
2. Highlight the COTSE mail account, and click "Properties"
3. Click on the "Servers" tab.
- incoming mail server pop.cotse.com
- outgoing mail server www.cotse.net
- Logon using Secure Password Authentication un-checked
- outgoing server requires authentication checked
- go into "settings" and verify that it's using "use receive user/pass".
4. Click on the "Advanced" Tab
- Outgoing mail (SMTP) port 25
- Requires secure connection (SSL) checked
- Incoming mail (POP3) port 995
- Requires secure connection (SSL) checked
When sending/receiving from Outlook Express for the first time, you will need to "authorize" our key. Newer versions of OE will not allow you to permanently remember the certificate. You will need to re-authorize the certificate EACH time you start OE and send/receive mail. We're looking to eliminate this problem by getting our certificate signed by a Certificate Authority. This is a costly endeavor and we're waiting on the funds to come available to do so.
Later versions of Outlook Express have trouble remembering the password between sessions. When you close OE down, then reopen it, even if you have "remember password" checked, it will not remember the password. There's nothing we can do about this. We cannot make OE remember the password, this is something that needs to be resolved by Microsoft. We're not sure if later versions of Outlook suffers from this problem. We've considered that this may be added "security feature" to SSL built in by Microsoft, but we're not for sure of this and we have no proof.
Outlook 2000
STOP! Before you setup Outlook 2000 for SMTP/POP SSL, you must setup Outlook 2000 as a standard SMTP/POP client.
1. Open Outlook 2000.
2. Click Tools ---> Accounts ---> Mail ---> Add ---> Mail
3. Enter in the name you wish to use with the account. Click Next
4. Enter in the email address you wish to use with the account. Click Next
5. Your incoming mail server is POP3
6. Your Pop Server is: pop.cotse.com
7. Your SMTP Server is: www.cotse.net
8. Click Next
9. Enter in your Cotse account name.
10. Enter in your Cotse password if desired (otherwise there will be a
prompt on each use)
11. Click Next
12. Choose your connection modality.
13. Click Next
14. Click Finish.
You should now be configured to use Outlook 2000 with Cotse SMTP/POP email.
Continue on to the SSL setup portion if you wish to use SSL POP/SMTP.
Outlook 2000 SSL Setup
If you have already setup your smtp/pop account in Outlook 2000, please follow these instructions for SSL pop/smtp.
1. On the "Tools" menu, select "Accounts..."
2. Highlight the COTSE mail account, and click "Properties"
3. Click on the "Servers" tab.
- incoming mail server pop.cotse.com
- outgoing mail server www.cotse.net
- Logon using Secure Password Authentication un-checked
- outgoing server requires authentication checked
4. Click on the "Advanced" Tab
- Outgoing mail (SMTP) port 25
- Requires secure connection (SSL) checked
- Incoming mail (POP3) port 995
- Requires secure connection (SSL) checked
When sending/receiving from Outlook for the first time, you will need to "authorize" our key. Newer versions of Outlook will not allow you to permanently remember the certificate. You will need to re-authorize the certificate EACH time you start Outlook and send/receive mail. We're looking to eliminate this problem by getting our certificate signed by a Certificate Authority. This is a costly endeavor and we're waiting on the funding availability to do so.
Later versions of Outlook Express have trouble remembering the password between sessions. When you close OE down, then reopen it, even if you have "remember password" checked, it will not remember the password. There's nothing we can do about this. We cannot make OE remember the password, this is something that needs to be resolved by Microsoft. We're not sure if later versions of Outlook suffers from this problem. We've considered that this may be added "security feature" to SSL built in by Microsoft, but we're not for sure of this and we have no proof.
Forte Agent.
Notes: This setup is specific to Forte Agent. It may or may not apply to Free Agent.
Important: Forte Agent DOES NOT support SMTP SSL or POP SSL at this time. Only standard SMTP/POP are support by Agent and will not be secure. Your IP address will BROADCAST on all outgoing messages sent from Agent.
To setup SMTP (outgoing) in Forte Agent:
Click Options ----> User and System ----> System
Click "Send email messages with SMTP"
Click SMTP Authentication button
Click "Login with a username and password"
Enter your username
Click "Remember password between sessions" if you wish to do so.
Note: Doing so will retain your password. This is an un-secure procedure to follow. We advise not to save your password but enter the password each time you send a message.
Click "OK"
To setup POP (incoming) in Forte Agent:
Click Options ----> In Bound Email ---->
Click "Receive Mail With POP"
Click "Login with Username and Password"
Enter your username
Click "Remember password between sessions" if you wish to do so.
Note: Doing so will retain your password. This is an un-secure procedure to follow. We advise not to save your password but enter the password each time you send a message.
Click "OK"
Forte Agent doesn't support SSL POP (POP3s) at this time. You will not be able to use Agent to retrieve messages via POP3s (SSL) from the Cotse servers. Remember, downloading your email via the normal POP method isn't secure. It would be best to use a POPSSL (POP3s) compatible email client and download via SSL. If/when this becomes available or when/if Forte releases a patch to allow this, please notify us helpdesk@cotse.net.
UPDATE: Agent works over SSL by using stunnel (http://www.stunnel.com). Just define an
stunnel.conf file:
client = yes
[pop3]
accept = localhost:110
connect = pop.cotse.com:995
[smtp]
accept = localhost:25
connect = www.cotse.net:465
Install stunnel as a Win32 service using "stunnel -install" and start
it up. Works beautifully. The only other thing is to specify
"localhost" as the smtp and pop server in the mail client and
otherwise configure the client as you would using the equivalent
non-ssl services. This should work to SSL-enable any mail client and
stunnel is portable to *nix systems.
Kmail 1.4.3
This setup was done on the following, but should work for any version of Kmail greater than 1.4.3 on most *nix platforms:
Debian 3.0 (Woody) with Kernel 2.4.18
XFree86 4.2.1-2
KDE 3.0.4
Kmail 1.4.3 (using KDE 3.0.4 libraries).
Thanks to James for the help on this one.
Everything is pretty default/standard etc.
The process for configuring is as simple as:
1. go to: Kmail "Settings -> Configure Kmail..."
2. Select the "Network" icon on the left
3. Select the "Sending" tab on the right
4. Click "Add..." and select "SMTP" in the box that appears.
5. Fill in the details as follows:
General Tab:
Name = COTSE SMTP (this is a human name so anything will do)
Host = www.cotse.net
Port = 465
Check the "My server requires authentication" box.
Login =
Password =
Check the "Store SMTP Password in configuration file" box.
Security Tab:
Encryption = SSL
Authentication Method = CRAM-MD5
Click "OK"
6. Back in the "Configure - Kmail" network dialogue box, click the "Receiving"
tab
7. Select "pop3" in the box that appears.
8. Fill in the details as follows:
General Tab:
Name = COTSE POP3 (this is a human name so anything will do)
Login =
Password =
Host = pop.cotse.com
Port = 995
Check the "Store POP Password in configuration file" box.
Check the "Delete mail from the server" box (unless you want to leave
it there...)
Modify any of the other settings to your taste (periodic mail checking etc)
Extras Tab:
Leave the "Use pipelining..." UN-checked
Encryption = "Use SSL for secure mail download"
Authentication Method = PLAIN.
Click "OK"
9. The first time you send and receive you will be asked about the security
certificate. Say "Continue" then in the second pop-up select the option to
remember the certificate. You should only have to do this step ONCE.
Congrats - Kmail is now sending and receiving email using SSL :-) Go make a
coffee, crack a beer or whatever you do to celebrate.
While I have not tested this setup on other platforms running KDE, there is
no reason why it would not work. Keep in mind that there were some bugs with
SSL libraries in KDE3 that were not fixed until KDE3.0.4 which *may* affect
Kmail in the pre-3.0.4 versions. YMMV.
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