…download your email and not store it on the Runbox servers, you could use POP to do this. POP vs IMAP There are options to use POP and leave your email on the the server, and also ways to make sure copies of sent email can be stored on our servers. However, if you wish to do this it would be easier to use IMAP. If you decided to use POP then by default your email client will probably download your email to your computer and remove it from our ser…
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…ols > Accounts Click on your Runbox account in the left panel Click on the POP tab in the right panel MailDroid To find the POP server settings: Go to the Menu item to the left of where you see your Runbox email address Expand the item under your Runbox email address so that you see “Manage Accounts” Click on the Menu item to the right of your Runbox email address and choose “Server Settings” Getting Help If you need any help with these settings,…
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…ername is the server name specified in the Retrieve entry and Foldername is the folder where the retrieved messages are to be saved. Troubleshooting If you have problems retrieving from a Yahoo account, please see this Yahoo article: Errors Receiving Mail (POP) Hotmail POP access is somewhat unreliable and depends on your Hotmail subscription status, as only paid accounts have this type of access. Please see this Microsoft article for more informa…
Filed Under: Retrieve
…for this at the link below. Changing your IMAP settings Changing existing POP settings: If you modifying your existing POP settings, please use the guide below. Changing your POP settings After you have changed your settings Once you have changed the settings or removed and added your account back, you should restart your email programs so they can update. In the majority of cases this will cause all email in your account to be downloaded again,…
…To POP from a specific folder only, create a new account in your mail client with the regular Runbox POP settings – only set your username in your email client like this: username%runbox.com%folder – for example: username%runbox.com%Sent….
Filed Under: Email Clients, FAQs
…download your email and not store it on the Runbox servers, you could use POP to do this. There are options to use POP and leave your email on the the server, and also ways to make sure copies of sent email can be stored on our servers. However, if you wish to do this it would be easier to use IMAP. If you decided to use POP then by default your email client will probably download your email to your computer and remove it from our servers. This m…
Filed Under: Email Clients
…You can set your email client to leave a copy of downloaded messages on the server. Please see the documentation for your email client to find out where this setting is….
Filed Under: Email Clients, FAQs
…error when trying to use our outgoing SMTP server. Secure/Encrypted IMAP, POP and SMTP Incoming Mail Server Settings Service Server Port Encryption Authentication IMAP mail.runbox.com 993 TLS/SSL Password POP mail.runbox.com 995 TLS/SSL Password Outgoing Mail Server Settings Service Server Port Encryption Authentication SMTP mail.runbox.com 465 TLS/SSL Password 587 STARTTLS Password Note: Port 465 may offer better connection security than port 58…
…you activate 2FA your usual account password will no longer work for IMAP, POP, SMTP, FTP and Cal/CardDAV services. This means you will need to use Application Passwords (see below) for all email, calendar, address book and FTP apps/programs you are using. You will still be able to access your email using our webmail service. When Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) is enabled, you will have the following options: Timed One-Time Passwords (TOTP) To us…
…e we have HTTP and HTTPS we also have IMAP and IMAPS. The same is true for POP/POPS and SMTP/SMTPS. Despite what might be technically correct, you will mostly see these protocols referred to as IMAP, POP and SMTP regardless of whether they are secure or not. Ports and Encryption Some ports are specified as being used for IMAPS, POPS and SMTPS, For example: IMAPS port 993 POPS port 995 SMTPS port 465 In addition if the server supports it, STARTTLS…
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