Your other mailboxes
PEC and your old mailboxes, right next to the company one
The PEC certified mailbox at Aruba, the Gmail you used before, the mailbox from your old hosting: connect them to kMail once and open them from the same window. Reply from the right one without switching tabs or programs.
“Only accounts checks the PEC, when they remember”
At Rossi & Partner the PEC lived in a separate browser tab, with its password on a sticky note. A formal notice sat there for four days. Connected to kMail, the PEC is a mailbox like the others: it appears in “Change mailbox” with its own mark, and its Inbox shows up together with everything else.
How it works
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Enter the address
In Settings › External accounts press “Connect external account” and type the address: for Gmail, Aruba PEC and Legalmail kMail fills in servers and ports itself, and recognises PEC.
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Enter the password
Enter the mailbox password, or an app password if the provider requires one, as Gmail does. For other mailboxes you check the suggested servers and confirm.
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Change mailbox
From “Change mailbox” choose the internal mailbox, the external one or the PEC, with its folders. Or “All mailboxes”, to scroll through the Inbox of all of them in a single list.
One window, PEC included.
What you can do
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Any IMAP/SMTP mailbox
Gmail, Aruba, your old website’s provider or the firm’s own server: if the mailbox opens over IMAP and sends over SMTP, you can connect it. Everyone adds their own, without going through the administrator.
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PEC with its own mark
Tick “This is a PEC account”, or kMail does it for you with Aruba PEC and Legalmail: the mailbox carries the PEC badge and you don’t mix it up with the others when choosing where to reply from.
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Reply from the right mailbox
When you reply to a message that came in on an external mailbox, it’s sent through that provider’s server: the client sees the address they wrote to, and a PEC stays a PEC.
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Every Inbox together
With “All mailboxes” the Inbox of every active mailbox runs in a single list, and each row says which one it came from. For folders, search and conversations you open the individual mailbox.
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Encrypted credentials
External mailbox passwords are stored encrypted, with a different key for each company. Each account belongs to the person who connected it: colleagues don’t see it.
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Always under control
If the provider rejects the password or the server doesn’t respond, the error appears next to the account. When you no longer need a mailbox, you disconnect it with one click.
Frequently asked questions
Does it connect with one click, like “Sign in with Google”?
No: kMail connects with address and password, like a regular mail program. With Gmail you need an app password, which you generate in your Google account’s security settings. Mailboxes that only accept sign-in through the provider’s own button can’t be connected.
Do PEC receipts arrive in kMail?
Yes, because the provider delivers them to the PEC mailbox: you find them in its Inbox like any other message. Legal validity and retention remain those of your PEC provider.
Does “All mailboxes” also show folders and search?
No: it’s the overview of the Inbox only, useful for not missing anything at a glance. For folders, search and conversations choose the mailbox from “Change mailbox”.
Is mail from external mailboxes moved into Kamzan?
No, it stays with your provider: kMail reads it and sends through its servers. If instead you want to leave the old provider and bring everything into the company mailbox, there’s migration.
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Alex