xmail in Apple Mail, Outlook and Thunderbird
Every active xmail account is a real mailbox — free ones included — so any mail app can read and send from it. You need four things: your address, your password, and the two servers below.
The settings
| What | Server | Port | Security |
|---|---|---|---|
| Incoming mail (IMAP) | imap.xmail.com | 993 | TLS / SSL |
| Outgoing mail (SMTP) | smtp.xmail.com | 465 | TLS / SSL |
| Outgoing mail, alternative | smtp.xmail.com | 587 | STARTTLS |
User name: your full address, [email protected]. Password: the password you use to sign in on this site. There is no separate app password to create. Authentication is required for sending as well as receiving.
Thunderbird and Outlook: let them find it
Both look the settings up by themselves. Enter your name, your address and your password; when the app offers IMAP with the servers above, accept it. If it offers POP3 instead, switch to IMAP — POP3 downloads messages to one device and is off by default on xmail accounts.
Apple Mail
Mail → Add Account → Other Mail Account. Enter your name, your address and your password. If Apple Mail cannot work the servers out on its own it will ask for them: use the table above, IMAP for incoming and SMTP for outgoing, with the same user name and password on both.
Sending limits
A new free account may write to 10 recipients a day for its first seven days (at most 5 in one hour and 5 in one message); after that, 30 recipients a day (10 an hour, 10 in a message). An account that has paid may write to 300 recipients a day (60 an hour, 50 in a message). These limits count recipients, not messages, and exist to keep the sending reputation of the service clean. A message over the limit is refused with a readable error; the account is not blocked.
If sign-in fails
- Check the address: the user name is the whole address, not the part before the @.
- Use the website password. If you do not remember it, reset it on the site and try again.
- Check the ports and that TLS is on — plain, unencrypted connections are refused.
- An account that is suspended or archived cannot sign in; the webmail at webmail.xmail.com will say so.
In the browser
You do not have to set anything up to read your mail: webmail.xmail.com works from any browser with the same address and password.
Questions and answers
- Do I need a paid name to use a mail app?
- No. Every active xmail account is a real mailbox and works over IMAP and SMTP, free accounts included.
- What password does the mail app want?
- The same password you use to sign in on xmail.com. There is no separate app password to generate.
- How many messages can I send?
- A new free account may write to 10 recipients a day (5 in one hour, 5 in one message) for its first seven days, then 30 a day (10 an hour, 10 in a message). An account that has paid may write to 300 recipients a day.