Affordable
Websites for the
Independent Business Professional
McAffee - Adding Your Email Server as a Trusted Site
In
order to send and receive mail from the hosting server's
mail client, you must edit the McAfee™ firewall, to allow
communication. To do this, you will need follow the steps
outlined below:
1.
Right click on the McAfee™ icon
in the tool bar (next to the computer clock).
2.
Choose "Open Security Center",
the McAfee™ program should appear.
3.
From the "Security Center",
choose "Personal Firewall".
4.
Click on "Utilities".
5.
Click on "Trusted and Banned
IP", and the trusted and banned IP window will appear.
6.
Make sure that you are on the
"Trusted IP Addresses"tab.
Click on "Add" to add an IP address, and the "Add IP
Address" window will appear.
7.
In the IP address box, enter
the NUMBERS GIVEN TO YOU BY YOUR WEBMASTER.
Example: 65.36.164.94 In the Description box enter
mail.yourwesite.com (or whatever name you like) and click
"OK".
If you didn't receive the mail IP address from your
webmaster, you can PING the mail client
for the IP.
8.
Close all McAfee™ windows. This
procedure should allow communication between your mail
browser and the mail server for your website.
How to PING and
search for the IP address of your mail server.
1.
Click The START button in the
Task Bar.
2.
Trace to ACCESSORIES
3.
Trace to and Click on COMMAND
PROMPT
4.
Don't worry about what is typed
in the window. Immediately after the > start typing
the following:
ping mail.mywebsite.com(put a space between the word ping and mail)
(replace mywebsite.com with your website address)
The numbers that show in in the
position highlighted with the yellow box below are the
numbers you need to put in for the trusted site.
410-536-4610
In
order to send and receive mail from the hosting server's
mail client, you must edit the McAfee™ firewall, to allow
communication. To do this, you will need follow the steps
outlined below:
