Tuta Login
How to Log In to Tuta
Sign in to Tuta on the web, desktop, mobile or Thunderbird. Fix rejected passwords, 2FA codes, approval holds and deleted-account errors.
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Tuta
Encrypted German email — no IMAP or SMTP by design
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Tuta — formerly Tutanota — encrypts the entire mailbox, including subject lines and contacts. Because standard IMAP and SMTP would require handing over readable mail, Tuta does not offer them at all. Access is through the web application or Tuta's own desktop and mobile clients, which handle decryption locally.
The full set
All Tuta guides
Tuta Sign Up
How to Create a Tuta Account
Signing up takes a minute — but two things catch people out: the recovery code you can never retrieve again, and the approval hold that stops your new address working.
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Tuta Password Reset
How to Reset Your Tuta Password
Tuta cannot send a conventional reset email. Here is how to reset a forgotten password or lost second factor with the recovery code.
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Tuta Security
Tuta Security: 2FA and App Passwords
Tuta has no app passwords — and doesn't need them. What actually protects your account, how to set up two-factor authentication, and the one thing to save first.
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Tuta Troubleshooting
Tuta Not Working? Common Fixes
What to check when Tuta will not load, send, receive, search or notify—and how to tell a local problem from a wider outage.
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Tuta Settings
Tuta Server Settings: IMAP, SMTP and POP3
Tuta publishes no IMAP, SMTP or POP3 settings — and never will. Here's the reasoning, what replaces them, and the DNS records that do matter.
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Enquiries
Tuta questions
Can I add Tuta to Thunderbird or Outlook?
Not through the normal IMAP, POP3 or SMTP account setup. Tuta does not provide these protocols, so adding the account through Thunderbird’s standard account wizard or Microsoft Outlook will not work.
However, Tuta now offers an official Tuta Mail add-on for Thunderbird. The add-on opens the Tuta web application inside a Thunderbird tab; it is not an IMAP or SMTP connection. For complete offline access, notifications, encrypted search and email import or export, use Tuta’s official desktop application.
Why does Tuta not support IMAP?
IMAP would require the server to hand over readable messages, which is incompatible with encrypting the whole mailbox. The trade-off is deliberate.