Introduction

We issue SSL security certificates from the servers, which your email clients (e.g. Outlook Express) may be configured to accept. Once you have done this, all emails which you send and receive are encrypted and may only be intercepted by extremely determined third parties who are targeting you personally, or by spyware running on your PC. IT Services recommend that you enable encryption in your email client, and this document will show you how to do this.

Common Settings

No matter what your choice of email client, you will be required to provide these server settings:

Incoming email server address: imap.reading.ac.uk, Security setting: SSL
Outgoing email server address: smtp.reading.ac.uk, Security setting: TLS (in Outlook Express set this to SSL too).

Note: The root folder path needs to be blank.