Nextcloud Mail: adding a new mailbox
Nextcloud Mail (the Mail app in your Nextcloud) is the official mail app of Nextcloud. It works great with the mailboxes you create in WebOké hosting packages, but you can also use mailboxes from other providers in it. Your Nextcloud is not a mailbox itself: you connect your existing mailbox.
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In this article you'll read how to add your WebOké mailbox to Nextcloud Mail. You add a mailbox from another provider the same way; only the IMAP and SMTP servers differ per provider.
Step 1 - Open the Mail app in the bar at the top. The first time, you'll see Connect your mail account.
Step 2 - First leave the Automatic tab open. Enter your email address and the password of your mailbox (that's the password of the mailbox itself, not your Nextcloud password) and click Connect.
For most mailboxes at WebOké this works right away and you're done. If it doesn't work, choose the Manual tab. You can read below how to fill it in.
Step 3 - This is what you enter for each field under Manual:
IMAP Host - your domain name, for example testnaam2.nl.
Note: does the DNS of your domain not point to WebOké, for example because your website is hosted elsewhere and you only have an Email Only package with us? Then the domain name won't work as the host. In that case, enter the server name of your package. You can find it in My WebOké under My Products, in the Server column, and in the welcome email of your package. It looks something like this: linux2023.webawere.nl.
IMAP Security - SSL/TLS
IMAP Port - 993
IMAP User - your full email address
IMAP Password - the password of your mailbox
SMTP Host - the same as the IMAP host
SMTP Security - STARTTLS
SMTP Port - 587
SMTP User - your full email address
SMTP Password - the password of your mailbox
Then click Connect.
Step 4 - Done! Your mailbox has now been added to Nextcloud Mail and your Nextcloud is fetching your mail. With a large mailbox this may take a while the first time; you can just carry on in the meantime.
Detailed explanation with screenshots: Adding your mailbox to the Mail app and Reading and writing mail, folders and saving attachments in Files in the Nextcloud manual.