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Setup your OVH cloud Email: How to Access Your OVH Emails on Any Email Client!

Do you wish to add your OVH email address to your email client, such as Outlook, Apple Mail or Thunderbird? With these current OVH IMAP settings, you're good to go!

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Setup your OVH cloud Email: How to Access Your OVH Emails on Any Email Client!
Last verified: Feb 2025


Should I Host my Emails with OVH cloud?

Short answer: yes. OVH cloud is a Canadian hosting provider that offers a wide range of cloud solutions. From domain registration to web hosting solutions and VPS, OVH cloud caters to the hosting need for businesses of any size.

With it's two email packages – Hosted Exchange and Private Exchange – OVH offers business email solutions that are based on Microsoft Exchange. With the Hosted Exchange Package, your emails are stored on the OVH cloud, while with the Private Exchange package, your email data is stored on a dedicated infrastructure exclusively available to your business on the OVH cloud. OVH cloud's business email solutions are hosted in France and therefore underly very strict privacy protection laws.

 

OVH Email Settings: How To Set Up Your OVH cloud Email

To set up your OVH email address in your email client, you need the current OVH IMAP settings as well as the correct SMTP settings. Below, we've gathered all information you'll need to quickly add your email address to your email client:

 

OVH IMAP Settings:

To add your OVH Cloud email address to your email client, add the following IMAP settings in the section for "incoming emails".

➡️ In case you're performing an email migration using MailJerry, please also refer to these IMAP settings.

IMAP Serverimap.mail.ovh.ca
IMAP Port993
IMAP SecuritySSL/TLS
Username Your full OVH email address
Password Your email account password

 

OVH SMTP Settings:

To send emails, you need to add the following SMTP settings for your OVH Cloud account in the section for "sending emails" (sometimes also called "outgoing emails").

SMTP Serversmtp.mail.ovh.ca
SMTP Port465
SMTP SecuritySSL/TLS
Username Your full OVH email address
Password Your email account password

 

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OVH POP Settings:

If you'd like to use POP3 instead of IMAP to add your OVH Cloud email account to your email client, use the following setting for POP3:

POP Serverpop.mail.ovh.ca
POP Port995
POP SecuritySSL/TLS
Username Your full OVH email address
Password Your email account password

 

POP3 or IMAP: What should I use for my OVH Cloud email?

When configuring your OVH email address, you might be unsure if you should use IMAP or POP to receive emails. Both email protocols are used to receive emails in your email client, however, they use different methods to store your data. IMAP keeps your emails on your OVH mail server, while POP downloads your messages to your device and deletes them from your mail server. But what does this mean exactly?

With IMAP, any changes made to your emails (such as deletions or marking them as read) are synchronized across all devices you use to access your email. POP reflects changes only on the device where you initially downloaded the messages. With IMAP, your emails are accessible online, while with POP, your emails are stored on your device and are lost in case you loose the device that stores your emails.

In general, it's best to choose IMAP over POP as it allows you to access the same emails on multiple devices. If you have many emails and are likely to run out of storage capacity,  POP could be a preferable option. With POP, emails are downloaded to your device, freeing up storage space in your mailbox.

 

Email Migration Guide: Migrate Emails from or to OVH Cloud

By following these simple steps, you can easily migrate your email data from OVH Cloud to another provider or from your current provider to OVH Cloud:

➡️ Download our free email migration tool or conveniently start your email migration in your browser.

➡️ Open MailJerry and select "New Migration".

➡️ In the section "Existing Address", select the account type and fill in the IMAP settings and email credentials for your current email account.

➡️ For the "New Address" section, enter the IMAP settings corresponding to your new email account (e.g., the OVH IMAP settings above). Now click on "Check Settings".


➡️ Review the planned migration and start it by clicking on "Start Migration".

Wait for the email migration from or to OVH Cloud to complete.
🎉 That's it! You can now access your old emails in your new email account!