Connect Any IMAP Mailbox to AI Email Filter

AI Email Filter works with any mailbox that supports IMAP — most providers and web hosts do. If there’s no specific guide for your provider, these three details are all you need.

The three things you need

1. IMAP server — usually imap.yourprovider.com or mail.yourdomain.com
2. Port — almost always 993 (IMAP over SSL/TLS)
3. Password — your mailbox password, or an app password if your provider requires one

Where to find them

• Your provider’s help pages: search for “provider name IMAP settings”.
• Your web host’s control panel: the email section usually lists “manual configuration” or “mail client settings”.
• An existing mail app: if the address already works in Apple Mail, Thunderbird or Outlook, the incoming server shown in the account settings is your IMAP server.

App passwords

Providers with two-factor authentication often reject your normal password for IMAP and ask for an app password instead: Gmail, iCloud, Yahoo, Fastmail and others. Look for “app passwords” in the account’s security settings.

Connect the mailbox

1. Sign in at app.email-filter.ai and add a mailbox.
2. Enter your full address, the password, the IMAP server and port 993.
3. Connect. For common providers the server is filled in automatically.

Troubleshooting

• “Invalid credentials”: most often an app password is required, or IMAP access has to be switched on in the provider’s settings first.
• Outlook.com, Hotmail and Microsoft 365: Microsoft no longer allows password logins over IMAP. Support via Microsoft sign-in is coming soon.
• Still stuck? Email [email protected] with your provider’s name and we’ll send you the exact settings.

Specific guides: Gmail · iCloud · Hostinger · GMX · Mailcow