This article is your starting point for setting up a Loopia email address in an email client (email program). You’ll find step-by-step guides for the most popular clients on Windows, Mac, Android and iOS, plus the email server settings you’ll need if you’re configuring an account manually.
Setup guides per platform
Windows
Mac
Mobile devices
Using another email client or program
If your email client isn’t listed above, you can still set up your Loopia account manually. See our guide to email server settings for Loopia accounts for the incoming (IMAP/POP3) and outgoing (SMTP) server details.
How Loopia email accounts work
When you set up your email account, you’ll usually be asked to choose between IMAP and POP3 — two different ways for your client to connect to the mail server. Loopia supports both, but the choice affects how your mail behaves across devices.
IMAP — recommended for most users
IMAP keeps all your messages on Loopia’s server and synchronises them to every device you sign in from. It is the best choice if you want to:
- Read and send email from several devices (computer, phone, tablet).
- Keep all your messages stored on the server at Loopia.
- Share the account with other people.
With IMAP you see the same messages everywhere you sign in. You can organise email into folders, see which messages are read or unread, and synchronise sent, deleted and draft mail across devices.
Our webmail also connects via IMAP, so anything you see in your email client will be there when you sign in to webmail, as long as your client is using IMAP.
The spam (junk mail) filter is enabled by default. Spam is automatically sorted into the “SPAM” folder, which is visible in IMAP clients and in the webmail.
POP3 — for a single device or offline use
POP3 downloads messages to a single device and (by default) removes them from the server. It can be useful if you want to:
- Read your email from only one device.
- Download and read messages locally, even without an internet connection.
POP3 works poorly if you read mail from several devices, because messages may disappear from one device once another has downloaded them. Folders you create with POP3 are stored locally on your device and will not show up in the webmail.
The spam filter is still active with POP3, but the SPAM folder is only visible over an IMAP connection — not over POP3.
If you’re unsure which to choose, we recommend IMAP for the best overall experience.