Accessing Your Mails

Webmail

You can access your emails using the webmail interface at webmail.uberspace.de. Use your full email address and the corresponding password to login. This works with your @uber.space address as well as with any addresses using your own domains.

Tip

For your @uber.space address the password is the same as for SSH access, which you can set in your dashboard.

If you never set your password for SSH access it won’t be possible to authenticate with the @uber.space address. You have to explicitly set the password for SSH access once after you have created your uberspace account.

Client settings

Warning

You must use encryption with all of the protocols; we do not support insecure access.

IMAP

Server

your Hostname (<something>.uberspace.de)

Port

993

SSL/TLS Encryption

Enabled, but not STARTTLS

Username

Your email address, including the domain

Password

Your password for the email address

Tip

If your mail client does not support TLS encryption, use port 143 instead with STARTTLS.

POP

We recommend using IMAP over POP to access your email. By default, POP will pull emails from your inbox.

Server

your Hostname (<something>.uberspace.de)

Port

995

SSL/TLS Encryption

Enabled, but not STARTTLS

Username

Your email address, including the domain

Password

Your password for the email address

Tip

If your mail client does not support TLS encryption, use port 110 instead with STARTTLS.

SMTP

Server

your Hostname (<something>.uberspace.de)

Port

587

465

SSL/TLS Encryption

STARTTLS

TLS

Username

Your email address, including the domain

Password

Your password for the email address

Warning

Don’t use ports 25 for sending emails! Unfortunately many clients try to use these ports, this won’t work on Uberspace.

Debugging

The most common problems when using a mail client with an Uberspace account:

  • Some home routers, especially some Speedport models offered by Deutsche Telekom, block SMTP connections to servers that are not on an internal allow list. You need to either disable that feature or add your Uberspace host to the allow list. Please check your router’s manual for instructions.

  • Similarly, some anti-virus applications block SMTP connections or modify the port.

  • Some mail clients won’t allow mail passwords that are longer than 16 characters.

Apple Mail

If Apple Mail complains that the Account or the SMTP server is offline, it is usually caused by the Automatically manage connection settings option. If this option is active, Apple Mail sometimes replaces the correct settings with incorrect ones, blocking access to the account. You can safely turn off the setting.


Hostname

You can find your hostname in the Datasheet section. It’s always <something>.uberspace.de, e.g. stardust.uberspace.de and not <login>.uber.space. Using the latter will create a certificate hostname mismatch.