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Understanding the different Infomaniak identifiers

Update 08/13/2026

This guide details the two main types of identifiers. They are distinct, even if the address format may be identical.

 

Infomaniak Account vs. Email Address

Here is a summary of these 2 types of identifier:

Type of identifierUsageWhere to use itAssociated password
Infomaniak account
(login ID)
Access all of your Infomaniak services.

Connect to:

Password set during user account creation.
⚠️ Different from the password
for your email addresses.
Email address hosted
with Infomaniak
Send and receive emails.

Connect via SMTP/IMAP…
or add to:

  • Infomaniak Mail
  • Email clients
    (Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird…)
Password
specific to
each email address
(there may be several).
⚠️ Different from your
Infomaniak account password.

 

What to do if you have connection problems?

There is no need to contact Infomaniak Support (which does not have access to any of your passwords)...

 

Explanation

  1. As with many other online services, you registered with Infomaniak using a personal email address.
  2. This personal email address serves as your login ID when you want to access Infomaniak services.
  3. This login ID has its own password (defined when creating your Infomaniak user account – your personal email address, see above).

There is no connection between…

  • … this username/password combination described in points 1/2/3 above…
  • … and the email addresses you created or obtained from Infomaniak.

A link may exist if the address is identical (for example, you registered with the email address toto@abc.xyz and you also manage this same email address with Infomaniak), but even in this case, the password will most likely be different – once for the login ID toto@abc.xyz and once for the email address toto@abc.xyz.

 

Other login IDs?

Acquiring other Infomaniak products involves obtaining other credentials, such as those required for FTP, MySQL, SSH connections, etc., but these credentials are entirely independent of the two types described above.


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