SecureIX

Email Server Settings

Our email server is mail.secureix.com. It support SSL enabled POP3, IMAP and SMTP connections on the default port numbers. The SMTP server requires that you enable authentication, but do not enable SPA (secure password authentication). The SPA is not needed because the entire connection is protected by SSL encryption.

Default SSL enabled port numbers:

POP3 - mail.secureix.com port 995
IMAP - mail.secureix.com port 993
SMTP - mail.secureix.com port 465

Default non-SSL port numbers:

POP3 - mail.secureix.com port 110
IMAP - mail.secureix.com port 443
SMTP - mail.secureix.com port 25

Be sure to enable SSL so your access to our email server will be encrypted even when your VPN connection is down. Most modern email clients support SSL encryption.

Web based email client:

https://www.secureix.com/mail - An easy to use web based client
https://mail.secureix.com:7443/scripts/webmail.exe - A more complex web based client

Usenet Newsgroup Server:

NNTP - news.secureix.com port 119

Usenet newsgroup access is only available while connected to the VPN network. Your normal SecureIX username/password is required. The posting of binary articles is not allowed due to security concerns.

Web Proxy Settings:

proxy.secureix.com port 80 and 8000

Using a caching web proxy like ours will improve your web broswing speeds and protect your privacy.

PPTP VPN Settings:

vpn.secureix.com

Our VPN server is a standard PPTP VPN. All major operating systems support PPTP including Linux, Mac, Windows. To configure a VPN account you just need the server name (vpn.secureix.com), the username (something@secureix.com) and the password you chose when you created your account.

Please note that windows, by default, does not enable a firewall on dialup connections. This is a securty problem, as the Windows operating system has too many security problems to count. To enable the Windows XP firewall, right click on the SecureIX network connection icon, select properties, click the advanced tab, then click firewall, then click the 'On' option. Close all the windows and you should see 'connected, firewalled' next to the VPN icon when connected from now on. If you would like to open a port for you P2P software you use the 'Exceptions' feature to do so.

We currently have 3 public and 2 premium VPN servers running. You can either use vpn.secureix.com or you can hand pick a server by using it's IP number. You should pick the server with least usage (shown as green in the graphs)

Server 1 (no firewall) - 66.150.105.11