As of Dec. 15th 2006 Unions-America will begin requiring SMTP authentication for sending email using the Unions-America email system. This will apply to anyone using email programs like Outlook Express to send email using our system. This will not apply to users who only use the webmail system to send email.

If you use an email program to send email for a unions-america.com email address, or to send email for any hosted domain email address, you will need to make the following changes in your email program to use SMTP authentication.

After Dec. 15th 2006, you will not be able to send email using the Unions-America system without using SMTP Authentication. Follow the instructions below to setup SMTP Authentication in your email program. If your email program is not listed below, refer to your programs help files for instructions on setting up SMTP Authentication.

Outlook and Outlook Express versions 2000 and earlier:

1. Open your Outlook program, then select the Tools > Accounts option from the menus.

2. Select the Mail Tab on the Accounts window, select your email account, then click the Properties button.

3. Select the Servers tab on the next window. Place a check mark in the box under "Outgoing Mail Server", labeled "My server requires authentication", then click the OK button and close the accounts window.

Outlook and Outlook Express versions 2002 and later:

1. Open your Outlook program, then select the Tools > E-Mail Accounts option from the top menus.

2. Select the View/Change Existing Email Accounts option, then select the account you want to edit, and click the Change button.

3. On the next screen, select the "More Settings" button.

4. On the new window, select the Outgoing Server tab, and then place a check in the "My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication" selection box. Also, Select the "Use same settings as my incoming mail server" option, then click OK.

5. Click the Finish button.

Outlook 2007: 

1. Open your Outlook program, then select the Tools > Account Settings.. option from the top menus.

2. Select your email account and click the change button.

3. On the next screen, select the "More Settings" button.

4. On the new window, select the Outgoing Server tab, and then place a check in the "My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication" selection box. Also, Select the "Use same settings as my incoming mail server" option, then click OK.

5. Click the Finish button.

1. Go to "Tools -> Account Settings -> Outgoing Server (SMTP)".
(If using Mozilla Suite: go to "Edit -> Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings -> Outgoing Server (SMTP)".)

2. Select the server and press the Edit... button.

3. Check the "Use name and password" option. Add your username as your full email address. Click "OK".

4. Thunderbird will ask you for your password the first time you send email and you can optionally save it at that time.

Entourage email client:

1. Open Entourage.

2. From the Tools menu, select Accounts.

3. Click once on the name of the account you wish to edit. This will
highlight the account.

4. Click on the Edit button at the top of the Accounts window. DO NOT
click on the edit menu at the very top of the screen.

5. Click on the Click here for advanced sending options button underneath
the SMTP server box.

6. Place a checkmark in the box next to SMTP server requires
authentication.

7. Click on the very small close box in the upper-left corner of this
settings window to close it.

8. Click the OK button to close the Edit Account window, and then close
the Accounts window. SMTP authentication has been enabled.

Mac OS X Mail:

1. Open OS X Mail, From the Mail menu, select Preferences.

2. Select your account from the Accounts window, then click Edit.

3. From the Account Information tab, click the Option button for the Outgoing Mail Server.

More insturctions for alternate email clients can be found by Clicking Here.