{"id":28,"date":"2007-10-04T01:38:32","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T00:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heiniger-net.ch\/blog\/webmail"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:02:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:02:32","slug":"webmail","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/heiniger-net-archive.blog-net.ch\/en\/webmail\/","title":{"rendered":"Webmail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am offering email addresses of the form &#8220;&lt;name&gt;@heiniger.org&#8221; or &#8220;&lt;name&gt;@heiniger-net.ch&#8221; to relatives. These email addresses can be used via a webmail client, or via the usual offline-mail-programs such as Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird. For Webmail, follow this link:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/webmail.hoststar.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Webmail<\/a> &#8212; for @heiniger.org or @heiniger-net.ch inboxes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>To everyone named Heiniger, being related, and not having an email account yet:\u00a0<a href=\"contact\">More email accounts can be requested from me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is a <em><strong>demo <\/strong><\/em>user with the password <em><strong>demodemo<\/strong><\/em>, which you can use to try out how all this works.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Your username is the email address. I can set a new password for you if you forget it. <a href=\"webmail\/passwordpolicy\">Please read here how to find a secure password<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Change per 1. April 2022<\/h3>\n<p>Our mail provider used to be Google, and it used to be free. Starting this year, Google wants money for heiniger-net.ch mailboxes. The lowest price tag is 5 Franks per month per mailbox. This is why I am switching to another mail provider.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Important: You are responsible for migrating your previous mailbox content to the new one yourself. I can not do this for you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Access to the new mailbox works as follows, besides the webmail mentionned at the top of this page:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoststar.ch\/en\/support\/mail\/set-up\/apple-automatic-configuration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple &#8211; Automatic configuration<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoststar.ch\/en\/support\/mail\/set-up\/outlook-365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Windows &#8211; Outlook 365<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoststar.ch\/en\/support\/mail\/set-up\/general-configuration-new-server-generation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instructions from the provider<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Username: &lt;your mail address&gt;<\/li>\n<li>Passwort: &lt;your password&gt; &#8211; if you don&#8217;t remember it, then you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoststar.ch\/de\/support\/mail\/konfigurieren\/passwort-aendern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reset it with these instructions<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Mailserver: mail.heiniger.org or mail.heiniger-net.ch (according to your email address)<\/li>\n<li>Turn on &#8220;SSL\/TLS-Encryption&#8221;, but turn off certificate validation, if possibleGeneral mail configuration:<\/li>\n<li>Port: SMTP: 465, IMAP: 993, POP3: 995<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am offering email addresses of the form &#8220;&lt;name&gt;@heiniger.org&#8221; or &#8220;&lt;name&gt;@heiniger-net.ch&#8221; to relatives. These email addresses can be used via a webmail client, or via the usual offline-mail-programs such as Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird. For Webmail, follow this link: <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/heiniger-net-archive.blog-net.ch\/en\/webmail\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":40,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heiniger-net-archive.blog-net.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heiniger-net-archive.blog-net.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heiniger-net-archive.blog-net.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heiniger-net-archive.blog-net.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heiniger-net-archive.blog-net.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/heiniger-net-archive.blog-net.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13802,"href":"https:\/\/heiniger-net-archive.blog-net.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/13802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heiniger-net-archive.blog-net.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}