📧 Mail
Read and answer your existing mail accounts right in the program – credentials only in your vault.
What it does for you
- All your mailboxes in one place, next to your files.
- Pick the provider, enter address and password – the server settings are already there.
- Your mail and passwords stay with you and your provider, never on a DasDing server.
Who it is for: Everyone with a mail account at GMX, Bluewin, mail.ch, Gmail, Outlook or another provider.
What you need: A password vault (tab 🔐 Passwords) – the logins are stored there.
You're in DasDing uploading photos and want to quickly check whether the mail from your landlord has arrived. Instead of switching to the browser, you click 📧 Mail.
How it works
DasDing becomes a small mail program for your existing accounts: it fetches mail directly from your provider (just like Outlook or Thunderbird do) and sends replies through it. DasDing itself runs no mail server – it is only the window to your mailbox.
Your credentials live in the password vault on your device. That's why the tab first asks for the master password.
Set up an account
- Open the 📧 Mail tab, unlock the vault.
- Add account and pick your provider. Preset are GMX, WEB.DE, mail.ch, Bluewin, Infomaniak, Hostpoint, mailbox.org, Posteo, IONOS, Strato, T-Online, freenet, Vodafone, 1&1, iCloud and Yahoo. Yours is missing: “Other provider” with your provider's server settings.
- Enter address and password, Save. The quick guide on the right tells you if your provider requires its own app password (for example iCloud, T-Online, Vodafone or GMX with two-factor).
- Outlook.com and Microsoft 365: no password here. “Sign in with Microsoft” opens your browser, you sign in there and confirm the access. Microsoft 365 also works with business accounts.
- Gmail: Google only accepts an app password for mail programs. The short guide on the right of the assistant takes you there: myaccount.google.com/apppasswords → name “DasDing” → Create → enter the 16-character password as the password. Two-step verification must be enabled in the Google account.
Read, reply, search
Accounts and folders on the left, messages in the middle, the open mail on the right. ↩ Reply takes over sender and subject and quotes the message, ↩↩ Reply all puts all other recipients in copy, ↪ Forward sends the message on including its attachments (you can untick single ones), ✉ New mail writes a new one. Separate several recipients with commas; CC/BCC gives copy and blind copy. On the PC you write with formatting (bold, italic, lists, links) – the mail goes out as HTML with a plain-text version; your signature from the account settings is added automatically. The search field above the list finds sender, subject and text in the selected folder. Delete moves to the provider's trash.
With Microsoft 365 you enter the addresses of shared mailboxes via 📫 (for example info@company.com); their folders appear below your own, and when writing you pick the mailbox as sender.
Frequent questions
Does DasDing see my mail?
No. The connection goes directly between your device and your provider. None of it passes through a DasDing server, and nobody at our end can read along.
Why aren't images in a mail displayed?
DasDing shows HTML mail without scripts and without images from the internet – so nobody can track you through a mail. “Load external images” fetches them for this one mail.
What about attachments?
When writing, attach files with 📎 Attachment (several possible; Microsoft up to 3 MB per file, other providers up to 25 MB in total). Received attachments appear as buttons below the subject: a click saves the file (on the PC a dialog asks for the location, on Android it lands in Download/DasDing).
My password is rejected.
With many providers, access for mail programs (IMAP) must first be switched on in the webmail, or an app password is needed. The provider's quick guide describes the way.
If something doesn't work
- “Vault is locked”: unlock under 🔐 Passwords or right in the tab.
- Microsoft: if “consent is missing” appears, click 🔄 Sign in again on the account.
- “Remove account” (✕) deletes the credentials completely from the vault.
Events of your accounts live in the same tab under 📅 Calendar – see Calendar.
This guide is also available in the program under 📖 Guides – with jump links to the other guides.