How to Set Up Your Email Client to Work with Email Hosted by Gandi

Here you can find the standard mail settings you should use to set up your email client to work with Gandi’s email, either as an IMAP or POP account.

This will enable you to use your own choice of software to send and receive email from your domain’s Gandi Mail addresses.

General Configuration & Settings

  • The most common problem for users who can’t log in is that they don’t use the full email address as the username. Be sure you follow the settings instructions carefully.

  • If you use an internationalized domain name, or a domain name with international characters, you may need to use the punycode version of the domain with some email clients. You can look up the punycode for an international domain here.

  • The POP account enables you to “download” messages from a server to a computer. This is the simplest and most common setting for an email client.

  • The IMAP account enables you to access messages directly on the server, just as if you were going to mail.gandi.net. Emails are not stored locally with an IMAP account, which makes it useful if the mailbox is synched between several clients (computer, smartphone, etc.).

  • TLS: TLS is a more recent and secure protocol than SSL. Nevertheless, it appears as though some email applications have trouble managing TLS and display a certificate warning during during send/receive. If you get such a warning while using TLS, please consider upgrading your email application.

  • SSL: We still support SSL (3.0), though this protocol is no longer considered as being secure. We therefore recommend that you use TLS.

  • Yourdomain.tld: when you see this expression, replace it by your own domain name (as in example.com). For your information, TLD means and represents your domain’s extension (.com, .net, .org, .fr, .eu, .co.uk, …).

  • The “forwarding” cannot be configured on an email client, as opposed to your mailboxes, for the very simple reason that they forward emails to a real mailbox (the email you have with your Internet service provider, or a Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo account, for example).

POP Account or IMAP Account

This is for receiving mail in your email client.

  • Incoming server name: mail.gandi.net

  • Port: leave the default setting (110 for POP, 143 for IMAP, 995 for POP SSL, or 993 for IMAP SSL).

  • TLS or SSL: Yes

  • Username: this is the entire email address (including @yourdomain.tld)

  • Password: provide the password you defined when creating the mailbox

SMTP Account

This is for sending email in your email client.

  • Outgoing (SMTP) server name: mail.gandi.net

  • Port: 25, 465 (with SSL) or 587 (with STARTTLS)

  • TLS or SSL: yes

  • SMTP Authentication: yes, using the same settings as for the POP / IMAP account

Tip

You are absolutely able to use your Internet Service Provider’s SMTP instead of Gandi’s. In that case, remember to disable SMTP authentication, as your Internet service provider can identify you through your connection’s IP address automatically.

SRV Records

We recommended adding the following SRV records to your domain name’s DNS records, if they have not already been added automatically. These records allow email clients and servers to find Gandi’s IMAP/POP and SMTP servers in a standard way.

_imap._tcp 10800 IN SRV 0 0 0   .
_imaps._tcp 10800 IN SRV 0 1 993 mail.gandi.net.
_pop3._tcp 10800 IN SRV 0 0 0   .
_pop3s._tcp 10800 IN SRV 10 1 995 mail.gandi.net.
_submission._tcp 10800 IN SRV 0 1 465 mail.gandi.net.