Category: Information

How to set up your Anu Hosted Email account on Mozilla Thunderbird

First Open Mozilla Thunderbird and click on the “Local Folders” at the left pane then under “Set Up Another Account” from the main pane of the app. Click on the “Email” button to add your email account, see screenshot below:

A pop-up will show asking for the login credentials. You have to fill in the information first before you will be able to click on the “Configure Manually..” button from the lower part of the pop-up screen then click on it.

See screenshot below:

Then you will see the settings for IMAP/POP below the login information,

For Incoming server details: Server: mail.anu.net – Port: 993 – SSL: SSL/TLS – Authentication: Auto Detect – Username: your@email.com

For SMTP server details: Server: mail.anu.net – Port: 587 – SSL: STARTTLS – Authentication: Auto Detect – Username: your@email.com

See screenshot below:

Then click on “Done” button.

Enjoy your Anu Hosted Email account with Mozilla Thunderbird app.

Anu votes to support Nominet Public Benefit Initiative

Anu have been a member of Nominet, the registrar for .uk domain name registrations, for longer than I can remember (the oldest domain in our account dates from 1994!). We have witnessed the rapid development of the domain name industry since the early days of the Internet. During this time a lot has changed at Nominet, and we’re just not convinced all of the recent changes are for the better.

I would like to thank Mr. Simon Blackler for giving a voice to dissatisfied Nominet members and organising a campaign to force an extraordinary general meeting, with a view to reorganising the board and refocusing Nominet on their core purpose.

That’s why we are backing the PublicBenefit.uk campaign and will be voting YES at the EGM on Monday 22 March.

CentOS 6 End of Life

As of 30th November, 2020, the CentOS 6 operating system is End of Life. This means it will receive no further updates, including security patches.

If your virtual server or hosting account still runs on CentOS 6 or older, we would strongly recommend developing and implementing a mitigation plan as soon as possible. This can be by migrating to a newer operating system or putting appropriate security measures in place.

We have developed a load balancer as a service offering which can be used to protect CentOS 6 environments that need to be maintained for example if the software stack is not compatible with more modern operating systems. This uses a CentOS 7 / 8 load balancer to accept traffic, provides built in SSL / HTTPS and uses the LAN network to access specific applications and services which massively reduces the potential attack surface. We will continue to develop this by adding further performance and security features.

We can also provide bespoke load balancer solutions using CentOS 7 / 8 virtual servers along with web/application servers, database servers and more which can provide a variety of features and security measures such as high availability, IP failover, caching, brute force / vulnerability detection, redirection and more.

If you need any assistance with your CentOS 6 deployments, you can reach out to us by emailing support@anu.net.