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Configuring email client

You can fetch and send emails using your YunoHost instance from desktop email clients such as Thunderbird Desktop or on your smartphone with applications like K-9 Mail.

Modern mail clients should be able to configure themselves automatically. If autoconfiguration fails, you can do it manually following the instructions below. (If the autoconfiguration fails though, it should be understood as a bug in YunoHost, and we would be glad to read your feedback to try to reproduce the issue on our side!)

Generic settings

Here are the element you should enter to manually configure your mail client (domain.tld refers to what's after the @ in your email address, and username what's before @).

Protocol Port Encryption Authentication Username
IMAP 993 SSL/TLS Normal password username (without the @domain.tld)
SMTP 587 STARTTLS Normal password username (without the @domain.tld)

Client by client

Configure Thunderbird Desktop (on a desktop computer)

To manually configure a new account in Thunderbird Desktop, add the account information, then click on 'Configure manually'. For the incoming server, use IMAP with port 993 and SSL/TLS. For outgoing server, use port 587 with STARTTLS. Select 'Normal Password' for the the authentication method of both. You may need to accept the certificate exceptions for fetching mails and after you send your first mail. Don't forget to remove the dot before the domain name.

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