App password for Other IMAP
A separate key for one app that you can revoke any time without changing your real password. Mail Housekeeper never asks for your real password.
Any mailbox that speaks IMAP over SSL. You need four things from your provider.
- The IMAP server name, something like imap.example.com. Ask your provider for its IMAP settings or search its help for "IMAP".
- The port, almost always 993 with SSL.
- Your full email address.
- An app password if your provider offers one. If it only has your normal password, consider whether you want to share it; an app password is always the safer choice.
- Enter all four in Mail Housekeeper and tap Test and connect.
Good to know
- Outlook.com and Microsoft 365 are not supported yet; they need a Microsoft sign-in flow rather than an app password.
Why an app password?
It is a separate key for one app that you can revoke any time without changing your real password. We never ask for your real password.
Your app password is stored encrypted (AES-256-GCM) and used only to read mail headers and move mail between folders inside your own mailbox: into Housekeeper hold when you clear a company, and on Yahoo and AOL into Housekeeper keep while a deep clean reaches older mail (that one is always brought back). Delete the app password at your provider and our access ends that instant.