As of April 24, 2019, all email sent from a Cox Email address must use TLS 1.0 security encryption or higher. As a result, Cox no longer supports sending email through email clients using SSL security encryption version 3.0 or older, see link below

https://www.cox.com/residential/support/...tings.html


I can send emails but cant receive any more because it doesnt support TLS

That page does not open (keeps asking for captcha)
But as can see on page below, cos supports SSL:
https://support.postbox-inc.com/hc/en-us...gs-for-COX

Are you sure that using port 995 and SSL checked you dont receive emails?

(05-02-2019, 09:24 PM)Rafael Wrote:  That page does not open (keeps asking for captcha)
But as can see on page below, cos supports SSL:
https://support.postbox-inc.com/hc/en-us...gs-for-COX

Are you sure that using port 995 and SSL checked you dont receive emails?

yes, all was working fine before April 24, below is the page on their site

as I said I can send but dont receive(pop) any more

(05-02-2019, 09:24 PM)Rafael Wrote:  That page does not open (keeps asking for captcha)
But as can see on page below, cos supports SSL:
https://support.postbox-inc.com/hc/en-us...gs-for-COX

Are you sure that using port 995 and SSL checked you dont receive emails?

He is correct. I talked to level-2 support at COX and he told me that COX is no longer going to support SSL. They are only going to support TLS. I told him about the confusion caused by the information that they show and he said that information will be updated by next month (supposedly).

Do you plan on supporting TLS? If so when?

Workaround

Use Stunnel, a tool acts as a proxy. You can configure it to establish an SSL connection to a given host and port when a connection to a given local port is made. Thus you could configure OE to connect to local port on the machine running Stunnel, which might then connect via SSL to smtp.example.com:465 using a more modern TLS version supported by Stunnel (but not directly by OE).

Stunnel download page:
https://www.stunnel.org/downloads.html

Download:




Now, because i dont have COX email account, and because COX does only give email account for it's clients. I cannot test it personally.
But i made the configuration for you guys.

Steps:
1. Download and install stunnel

2. right click on stunnel icon on tray and click "Edit configuration"


3. Insert this on stunnel configuration text file that will open with notepad and save the file (File>Save)


   



4. Right click again on stunnel tray icon and click "Reload configuration"


5. Open outlook express and edit your COX account. On the "Servers" Tab, replace your servers (both incoming and outgoing) with 127.0.0.1
   

6. Go to "Advanced" Tab and enter ports (587 for SMTP and 995 for POP3), UNCHECK SSL
   

That's it. Try now to send and receive emails.

is there a windows 32 version of stunnel?

Yes of course. Here it is

(05-06-2019, 02:35 AM)Rafael Wrote:  Yes of course. Here it is

I have tried to use stunnel but it keeps on failing because it shows me "server is down due to a error".
It says the error is in the config file.

I was getting a error because of this line "verifyChain = yes" and replaced with "verify = 2". After that was done got "green" server running. but was not able to send or receive email.

To fix I removed "verify = 2" and pop side now works. (but no verify)
To fix smtp part delete the smtp part of the config file.
Set the server name on outlook back to smtp.cox.net.
Set smtp port to 587 with SSL checked.

I was then able to get Windows XP Outlook to send receive email.

How do I get the stunnel to run at start up on Windows XP?

just add the shortcut on windows startup

I installed stunnel on windows xp professional
did not made any changes to the default config file, wanted to see if I can run it first
tried to run stunnel GUI start and got this error:



inserted the lines for cox in the config file, tried to run it it and got the same error