Fetch Mail
Collect mail from your other accounts into CodaMail.
What Fetch Mail Does
Fetch Mail logs into another mailbox you own, over POP3 or IMAP, on a schedule, and brings the new messages into CodaMail. It is how you consolidate an old address, or keep an account at another provider while reading everything here. Collected mail is delivered into your mailbox like any other incoming message, so your delivery filters can file it where you want.
Open Settings → Fetch Mail. The number of accounts you can collect from depends on your plan.
Adding an Account
- Protocol (IMAP or POP3), Server hostname and Use SSL (on by default): from the other provider's settings page. Leave SSL on.
- Username and Password for the other account. Gmail, Outlook and most large providers require an app-specific password here rather than your login password.
- To reply from the other address, create an identity for it under Settings → Identities, and give that identity the other provider's outgoing server (prefixed ssl:// or tls://) so your replies pass its authentication checks.
- Remote server folder (IMAP only): which folders to collect from, comma separated. Blank means the Inbox.
- Check for mail every (n) minutes: the polling interval, from every ten minutes to once a day.
- Fetch all e-mails from server: on the first run, collect everything rather than only new mail. Use it once to migrate an old mailbox.
- Do not remove messages from the server: on by default, so the originals stay at the other provider. Untick it only once you are sure collection is working and you want the other mailbox emptied as mail is collected.
- Enable: pause an account without deleting its settings.
Checking That It Works
Each account in the list shows Last checked and a Result: working, could not connect (check the hostname and SSL), login failed (check the credentials, and remember the app-password requirement at Gmail and Outlook), server busy, name not found, server error (a listed folder may not exist), or a delivery problem on our side (contact support). Reopen the account entry to refresh its status after a change.
The other provider sees logins from CodaMail's servers at the interval you set, so it learns that you collect mail, but nothing about when or where you read it.