POP, IMAP, and SMTP server settings for Gmail

<em>Make sure to enable POP/IMAP access in your Gmail settings first.</em><br> <h1> POP</h1> <b>Standard configuration instructions:<span id="more-311882093"></span></b><br> <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td><b>Incoming Mail (POP3) Server – requires SSL:</b></td> <td>pop.gmail.com<br> <b>Use SSL</b>: Yes<br> <b>Port</b>: 995</td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server – requires TLS or SSL:</b></td> <td>smtp.gmail.com<br> <b>Use Authentication</b>: Yes<br> <b>Port for TLS/STARTTLS</b>: 587<br> <b>Port for SSL</b>: 465</td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>Server timeouts</b></td> <td>Greater than 1 minute, we recommend 5</td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>Full Name or Display Name:</b></td> <td>[your name]</td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>Account Name or User Name:</b></td> <td>your full email address (including @gmail.com or @your_domain.com)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>Email Address:</b></td> <td>your email address (username@gmail.com or username@your_domain.com)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>Password:</b></td> <td>your Gmail password</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <br>

POP, IMAP, and SMTP server settings for Gmail

Make sure to enable POP/IMAP access in your Gmail settings first. POP Standard configuration instructions: Incoming Mail (POP3) Server – requires SSL: pop.gmail.com Use SSL: Yes Port: 995 Outgoing Mai…

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Hotmail: IMAP, POP3, and SMTP settings

Hotmail supports access via IMAP, POP3 and SMTP protocols. Below you can find the configuration settings for those protocols.<br> All Hotmail servers (POP3 and SMTP) use implicit SSL (use <i>ConnectSSL</i> method).<br> SMTP server supports explicit SSL (you can use <i>Connect</i> method and then secure the channel using <i>StartTLS</i> method)<br> <h2> IMAP</h2> Server: <b>imap-mail.outlook.com</b><br> SSL: <b>true-implicit</b><br> Port: <b>993</b> (default)<br> User: username@hotmail.com<br>

Hotmail: IMAP, POP3, and SMTP settings

Hotmail supports access via IMAP, POP3 and SMTP protocols. Below you can find the configuration settings for those protocols. All Hotmail servers (POP3 and SMTP) use implicit SSL (use ConnectSSL metho…

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Controlling DNS prefetching

<br> As of version 3.5, Firefox supports DNS prefetching. This is a feature by which Firefox proactively performs domain name resolution on both links that the user may choose to follow as well as URLs for items referenced by the document, including images, CSS, JavaScript, and so forth.<br> <br> This prefetching is performed in the background, so that the DNS is likely to already have been resolved by the time the referenced items are actually needed.  This reduces latency when, for example, the user actually clicks a link.<br> <h2> Background</h2> DNS requests are very small in terms of bandwidth, but latency can be quite high, especially on mobile networks.  By speculatively prefetching DNS results, latency when, for example, the user clicks a link can be reduced significantly (on the order of a second, in some cases).<br>

Controlling DNS prefetching

As of version 3.5, Firefox supports DNS prefetching. This is a feature by which Firefox proactively performs domain name resolution on both links that the user may choose to follow as well as URLs fo…

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