Secure IMAP (IMAPs) allows you to check safely your email even on non-secure networks. This is very important in order to protect your privacy and account security.

Mac Mail offers excellent IMAPs support and the following article describes how to enable it.

Even if you are using a different webhost the instructions are similar.

The most important thing is to find out which IMAPs server to use. If you are a SiteGround client, go to yourdomain.com/cpanel.

You will be redirected to something like https://secureXXX.sgcpanel.com:2083. This means that your IMAPs server is secureXXX.sgcpanel.com.

It is essential to use exactly this server name because our SSL is issued for *.sgcpanel.com. If you connect by IMAPs with any other server name, there will be an SSL warning that the certificate does not match the host. This warning is not fatal but it will pop up you every time you open your email client.

Once you have found out your IMAPs server name, open Mail and go to Mail > Preferences. There find your email account, click on it and follow the steps below:

1. In  the Account Information tab set Incoming Mail Server to your IMAPs server .

2. In the Advanced tab check Use SSL.

3. To apply the changes click 'OK' at the bottom.

From this point on you will be checking your email securely using IMAPs.

We have also prepared the following video tutorial on these instructions: