regfish Mail
regfish Mail is the mail service of regfish GmbH. It provides mailboxes, accepts and delivers mail, keeps a calendar and an address book, and can be used in several ways. The webmail is one of those ways, not the service itself.
The ways in
Section titled “The ways in”| Way | For what |
|---|---|
| Mail program over IMAP, POP3 and SMTP | The usual route: Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird, your phone |
| Webmail in the browser | From anywhere without setup, plus the mailbox settings |
| Calendar and address book over CalDAV and CardDAV | Appointments and contacts in any program speaking those standards |
Every route reaches the same data. What you delete in a mail program is gone in the webmail too.
Setting up a mail program
Section titled “Setting up a mail program”The server is mail.regfish.de or mail.regfish.com. You sign in with the full email address and
the mailbox password.
| Protocol | Encrypted | Alternative |
|---|---|---|
| IMAP | 993 | 10993 |
| SMTP | 465 | 10465 |
| POP3 | 995 | 10995 |
The alternative ports exist for the case where your own internet provider blocks the standard ones. That happens on some networks and shows up as a timeout while connecting.
IMAP rather than POP3 if you use the mailbox on several devices: IMAP leaves the mail on the server and keeps every device in step, POP3 fetches it away. Push mail over IMAP IDLE is supported.
If two factor authentication is active for the mailbox, the mail program needs an app password; a second factor cannot be requested over IMAP. See security.
Where things are managed
Section titled “Where things are managed”This is the split worth knowing:
In the dash sits the service itself: the mail package with its storage and number of mailboxes, creating and deleting mailboxes, the domains and the forwarding. SPF, DKIM and DMARC are set there too.
In the webmail sit the settings of one mailbox: spam thresholds, blocklists, filters, aliases, vacation reply, signatures, import and the security of that mailbox. If you look after a single mailbox, that is enough and you never need to open the dash.
Rule of thumb: anything that costs money or affects several mailboxes lives in the dash. Anything affecting one mailbox lives in the webmail.
Two web interfaces
Section titled “Two web interfaces”| Address | For what | |
|---|---|---|
| regfish Mail (webmail) | regfish.com/webmail/ | The modern interface. Open to all mail plans, old and new |
| regfish Webmail (Roundcube) | webmail.regfish.de | The previous interface, matching the older mail plans |
The old webmail stays. Anyone happy with it need not change a thing. Both reach the same mailbox.
What else the service brings
Section titled “What else the service brings”Spam and virus filtering per mailbox, sender blocklists, sorting rules, a vacation notice, two factor sign in with app passwords, and an IMAP migration you start yourself. The chapters of this section describe them in turn.