{"id":7283,"date":"2026-01-08T11:47:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/?p=7283"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:58:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:58:57","slug":"end-of-support-for-tls-1-0-and-1-1-protocols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/end-of-support-for-tls-1-0-and-1-1-protocols\/","title":{"rendered":"End of Support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 Protocols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To maintain our rigorous security standards and adhere to global industry compliance, Hostinger Mail <strong>has retired<\/strong> support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 across our entire infrastructure<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. These legacy protocols are now considered obsolete and are no longer recognized as secure by the international technical community.<\/span><\/p><h3 id=\"what-action-do-I-need-to-take\">What action do I need to take?<\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To prevent any interruption to your email service, please verify that your devices, third-party applications, and email software are configured to use <\/span><b>TLS 1.2 or a more recent version<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> before the scheduled decommission dates.<\/span><\/p><ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Switch to Webmail:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> For a seamless experience, you can access your inbox via our webmail interface, which natively supports current TLS standards.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Update Software:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Ensure your email applications (like Outlook or Mac Mail) are updated to the latest version to guarantee TLS 1.2 compatibility.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Check Operating Systems:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Older platforms (such as Windows XP or macOS versions prior to 10.10) may not support modern encryption protocols. You may need to upgrade your OS to maintain connectivity.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><h3 id=\"timeline-for-protocol-decommission\">Timeline for protocol decommission<\/h3><p class=\"no-margin\">Connections using legacy protocols were phased out on <strong>March 30, 2026<\/strong>. The following services will be impacted:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-table-container\">\n<table role=\"presentation\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;width: 261px\">\n<p class=\"intercom-align-center no-margin\"><b>Phase Out Date<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80\">\n<p class=\"intercom-align-center no-margin\"><b>Impacted Services<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 261px\">\n<p class=\"intercom-align-center no-margin\">March 30, 2026<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">SMTP SSL, TLS (Outgoing Mail)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 261px\">\n<p class=\"intercom-align-center no-margin\">March 30, 2026<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">APIs, IMAP, POP, and MX records<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 261px\">\n<p class=\"intercom-align-center no-margin\">March 30, 2026<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">MX (Incoming Mail)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>NOTE:<\/b> As of March 30, 2026, any connection attempt made via TLS 1.0 or 1.1 <strong>is<\/strong> automatically rejected.<\/p><h3 id=\"idustry-standard-alignment\">Industry standard alignment<\/h3><p class=\"no-margin\">This transition aligns Hostinger Mail with the security benchmarks set by major technology organizations:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-table-container\">\n<table role=\"presentation\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;width: 261px\">\n<p class=\"intercom-align-center no-margin\"><b>Organization<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80\">\n<p class=\"intercom-align-center no-margin\"><b>Status<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 261px\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">IETF<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Formally deprecated TLS 1.0\/1.1 in March 2021 (RFC 8996)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 261px\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Web Browsers<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Mozilla phased out these versions in 2020<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 261px\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Cloud Providers<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Major providers like AWS completed their transition to TLS 1.2+ by early 2024<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div><h3 id=\"how-will-this-affect-me\">How will this affect me?<\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The vast majority of Hostinger Mail users will not notice any change. Our data indicates that less than 0.01% of traffic currently originates from these outdated versions.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because modern browsers and current email clients have defaulted to TLS 1.2 or 1.3 for several years, most users are already protected. However, if you utilize specialized legacy hardware or very old software versions, you may experience connection failures <strong>as these updates are now in effect<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hostinger Mail is ending support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 to maintain security standards and industry compliance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":594,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-information"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/end-of-support-for-tls-1-0-and-1-1-protocols","default":1}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/594"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7283"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9325,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7283\/revisions\/9325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}