This guide walks you through the full registration process — from filling in your details to verifying your email and accessing the client area for the first time.

If your emails are landing in spam folders — or worse, someone is sending emails pretending to be you — it is time to set up email authentication. SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are three DNS records that tell receiving mail servers your messages are legitimate. This guide walks you through setting up all three on your HOSTDOG hosting.

This guide walks you through adding your HOSTDOG email to Mozilla Thunderbird with IMAP. Thunderbird often auto-detects server settings, but if it does not, you can enter them manually using the reference below.

This guide walks you through adding your HOSTDOG email account to Microsoft Outlook for Windows, step by step. We recommend IMAP, which keeps your emails synchronised across all devices.

This guide covers the new Outlook for Windows app (the replacement for classic Outlook) and Outlook on the web (outlook.com / outlook.live.com). If you use classic Outlook (2016, 2019, 2021, or Microsoft 365 desktop), see How to set up email in Outlook (desktop) instead.

This guide walks you through the setup step by step, using IMAP — which keeps your emails in sync across all your devices. It works on all iPhones and iPads running iOS 14 or later.

This guide shows you how to create email forwarders through your hosting control panel. You can forward emails from any address on your domain to one or more external or internal addresses, with or without keeping a local copy.

This guide walks you through adding your HOSTDOG email to the Gmail app on Android, step by step. We use IMAP, which keeps your emails in sync across all your devices. These instructions work on all Android phones and tablets running Android 10 or later.

A "mailbox full" error means your email account has reached its storage quota. When this happens, incoming messages bounce back to the sender with a delivery failure notice. The fix is straightforward: free up space in your mailbox and, if necessary, increase your quota or upgrade your hosting plan. Follow the steps below to resolve this quickly.

Below you'll find the incoming mail server settings (IMAP and POP3), outgoing mail server settings (SMTP), and the correct ports and encryption options for each. All values apply to every HOSTDOG email account.