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Securing your POP3, IMAP, or LDAP accounts
IBMR Lotus NotesR supports Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), which makes communication secure for your POP3, IMAP, or LDAP accounts. SSL encrypts the data that is sent between your NotesR client and the server you specify for your account. Notes supports SSL versions 2.0 and 3.0. By default, Notes negotiates the best SSL version to use with a particular server.

Note: Setting up a secure SSL connection in for POP3, IMAP, or LDAP doesn't necessarily mean that the server you are trying to access is running SSL.

To enable SSL for a particular account

1. Open your Contacts.

2. From the menu choose View > Advanced > Accounts.

3. Click Actions > New > Account, or select an existing account and choose Actions > Edit.

4. If you are creating a new account, see Creating or editing Internet mail accounts manually for information on creating an account.

5. Click the Basics tab, and select Enabled in the SSL field.

6. If you plan to access a site that you do not already trust, you must request an Internet cross certificate for that site. You do not have trust established if you receive security warnings when you try to access the site, or if you cannot access the site at all. Notes comes with many Internet cross certificates that trust common certifiers, so it is likely that you do not need an Internet cross certificate.

7. (Optional) Change any of the following SSL settings for any account, found by clicking the Advanced tab:

8. Click "Save and Close."

Related topics
Creating an Internet mail account using a wizard
Creating or editing an NNTP newsgroup account manually
Setting up Notes to search an Internet directory for addresses
Sending Internet mail using Domino or SMTP
Receiving Internet POP mail
Receiving Internet IMAP mail
To retrieve an Internet cross certificate