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Android mail setup

Your PHPHost.ch mailbox works with every Android e-mail app over IMAP: messages stay on the server and are kept in sync between your phone, your computer and webmail.

Thunderbird for Android (recommended)

Thunderbird for Android (free, on Google Play and F-Droid) finds the settings automatically:

  1. Open Thunderbird and choose Add account.
  2. Enter your e-mail address, then your password.
  3. Thunderbird shows the settings for mail.phphost.ch: confirm and finish.

Gmail, Samsung Email and other apps

These apps ask for the server settings:

  1. Add an account of type Other (or IMAP), not “Exchange”.
  2. Enter your e-mail address and password, then choose Manual setup if the app offers it.
  3. Enter the settings below.

Incoming server (IMAP)

Server: mail.phphost.ch
Port: 993
Security: SSL/TLS
Username: your full e-mail address

Outgoing server (SMTP)

Server: mail.phphost.ch
Port: 587
Security: STARTTLS
Authentication: yes, with your full e-mail address and your password

The server is always mail.phphost.ch, whatever the domain of your e-mail address. All the settings (POP3, other ports) are on the page Mail setup.