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How to connect any email account with IMAP

Step-by-step guide for connecting any account to Leave Me Alone

Step 1: Find your IMAP details

IMAP is a way for Leave Me Alone to connect to your email account so that we can scan your mailboxes and show you emails to unsubscribe from.

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Heads up! You might not need your IMAP details… We provide direct integrations for all the most popular mail providers. You can click any of the below for details on how to connect a mail account from each of these providers. Gmail - Outlook - iCloud - Yahoo - AOL - Fastmail

IMAP Details for Popular Providers

With someone else?

You can find out your IMAP details by contacting your provider, though you can also usually find this by searching Google for "<your mail provider> IMAP settings". - Specifically, you will need the IMAP host (or IMAP Server) and IMAP port for your mail provider's server.

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Step 2: Connect your account

  1. Enter your email address and wait for us to select your account type (or you can click the dropdown on the right of the field to change the account type)
  1. We’ll do our best to autofill your IMAP host and port from your email address
  1. Enter your password (this is usually the password you use to sign in)
  1. Click Connect account
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All done! ✨

You can now connect any email account that supports IMAP to Leave Me Alone using this method.

Still need help?

We do our best to autofill your IMAP details from your email address but sometimes we don’t get it right or the mail server might be misconfigured.

  1. If you are getting an authentication error then please make sure your email address and password are correct
  1. If they are correct then please check if you need to create an app password to connect an IMAP account from your provider (if you’re not sure then you can check with your mail provider)
  1. If you are connecting with imap.yourdomain.com then you can also try the mail prefix mail.yourdomain.com
  1. if all else fails then we can usually figure it out so please drop us an email at support@leavemealone.com
 
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