Virtual Hosting User Guide
The details listed here are to provide users with all the essential configuration settings for accessing our services. Although this is most useful for veteran users who already have their own software clients installed, it still provides additional information which may be useful to other users.
Thinking Farm Secure Site
The Thinking Farm Secure Site is your web portal to your account and other services. Make sure you bookmark this web page!
https://secure.thinkingfarm.com/
Your Account Settings
You can access your account and change various settings, including your password and email forwarding, at the following web address:
https://secure.thinkingfarm.com/account/
Accessing Your Webmail
You can access your email any time and anywhere as long as you have a web browser with Internet access. Simply point your web browser to the following web address:
https://secure.thinkingfarm.com/webmail/
Configuring Your Email Program
In addition to accessing your email via Webmail, you can also use your favourite email program to access your email via POP3 or IMAP. Popular email programs such as Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger, Pine and Evolution are supported. The following table shows the settings that you need to configure.
| POP3 Settings | IMAP Settings | |
|---|---|---|
| Incoming mail server | ||
| Server name: | mail.thinkingfarm.com | mail.thinkingfarm.com |
| Server port number: | 995 | 993 |
| Requires secure connection: | Yes (SSL) | Yes (SSL) |
| Leave messages on server1: | No | n/a |
| Outgoing mail server | ||
| Server name: | mail.thinkingfarm.com | mail.thinkingfarm.com |
| Server port number: | 25 | 25 |
| Requires secure connection2: | Yes (SSL) | Yes (SSL) |
| Server requires authentication2: | Yes Same settings as incoming mail server. |
Yes Same settings as incoming mail server. |
Notes:
- This setting is only available with POP3 servers. You should not leave messages on the server after they have been downloaded by your email program, otherwise the disk space taken up by your messages on the server will continue to grow until you run out of available disk space quota.
- Thinking Farm's mail servers require SSL secure connection and logon authentication in order to send outgoing email. These additional security features adopted by Thinking Farm are not common with other service providers. Please ensure that your email program is correctly configured.
Note for Norton Anti-Virus Users: If you use the Norton Anti-Virus program, you need to disable scanning of outgoing emails. This is because Norton Anti-Virus interferes with the communication between your email program and Thinking Farm's mail servers. The security of your computer is not diminished because other Norton Anti-Virus scanning mechanisms continue to function. If your outgoing email contains a virus, it can only affect recipients (not yourself), but in any case even this will be prevented by the anti-virus scanning on Thinking Farm's mail servers.