GoDaddy doesn't offer SSL encrypted email services
Facts: GoDaddy doesn't offer SSL encrypted email services as of 1/20/2007.
All email you'll be sending or recieving with GoDaddy's servers are un-encrypted. You can't even buy the feature.
I know, I know; you're saying: "I don't believe it." Well - believe it.
What can you do about it? Send an email to them at suggestions@godaddy.com or click this link that contains a pre-filled subject and body. If you're a current customer, you should include services you currently purchase from them.
The pre-filled email goes like this:
"Dear GoDaddy,
Please provide SSL encrypted emails on smtpout.secureserver.net:80 and relay-hosting.secureserver.net:25. I'm surprised you don't offer this already.
I have emails that contain important information that hackers can sniff on the network when I send and receive emails through your email servers (smtpout.secureserver.net). Please integrate SSL support for your email services or I will be forced to switch hosting providers.
Thank you"
Personal opinion: I've never dealt with someone that doesn't take email security very seriously.
It seems like a company of their side would be able to send a couple IT admins off on a 2 day mission to enable SSL on their mail servers. GoDaddy sells SSL certs, don't you think they'd use them for their email?
Details on GoDaddy Email connection settings
POP3 Off-site connection (e.g. your Outlook, Eudora, etc.)
Outgoing Server: smtpout.secureserver.net
Port: 80
Username: youremail@yoursite.com
Password: youremailpass
Incoming Server: mail.yoursite.com (if you set up your DNS yourself, it may be different)
Port: 110
Username: youremail@yoursite.com
Password: youremailpass
Hosted-Application (PHP & ASP.NET) Settings - useful for Community Server & Custom Apps
Outgoing Server: relay-hosting.secureserver.net
Port: 25
Username: youremail@yoursite.com
Password: youremailpass
Incoming: I've never tested receiving email on a shared-hosting account. If you've tried it, please comment with the details. I wouldn't expect it to work, since they're very strict with their shared hosting accounts - but I encourage someone to try!
As always, comments are welcome.