Mail & DNS Details

Mail Servers

  • Outgoing – smtp.watchfront.net.uk (from Watchfront IP addresses, or with authentication name and password upon request)
  • Incoming – pop3.watchfront.net.uk or imap.watchfront.net.uk
  • Secondary – secondary-mail.watchfront.net.uk (available upon request)
  • Webmail – https://webmail.watchfront.net.uk/ (use your pop3 authentication name and password)

N.B. All email passing through our systems is spam and virus checked. To avoid false positives, rather than reject ‘marginal’ spam, we mark it with the header line:-
X-Spam-Flag: YES

If your mail client supports message filters you may wish to set a filter to automatically move such marked mail to a junk folder.

Incoming Mail Server Settings

Incoming Settings
Serverimap.watchfront.net.uk or pop3.watchfront.net.uk
Port993(IMAP) or 995(POP3)
SecuritySSL/TLS
ProtocolPOP3/IMAP
AuthenticationNormal POP3/IMAP credentials

Outgoing Mail Server Settings

Outgoing Settings
Serversmtp.watchfront.net.uk
Port587
SecuritySTARTTLS
ProtocolSMTP
AuthenticationNormal POP3/IMAP credentials as above

DNS Servers

The local DNS caching servers for our customers are:-
81.187.42.42
81.187.96.96
2a02:17d8::4242
2a02:17d8::9696