IMAP settings · secureserver.net
GoDaddy email IMAP settings
GoDaddy has two different mail products behind one bill, and the settings depend on which one your mailbox is on. Legacy Workspace Email answers at secureserver.net; GoDaddy is retiring it and moving accounts to Microsoft 365, and a migrated mailbox no longer lives at those hosts at all. Checking which one you are on takes a minute and saves an hour.
IMAP connection
- Server
- imap.secureserver.net
- Port
- 993
- Encryption
- SSL/TLS
- Username
- full address
- Password
- the mailbox password
Sending, SMTP
- Server
- smtpout.secureserver.net
- Port
- 465
- Encryption
- SSL/TLS
Checked against the service's own autoconfiguration file on 2026-09-15 — the same source Thunderbird reads when it fills the settings in for you. Source: autoconfig.thunderbird.net, gdhelp.godaddy.com
What breaks here.
- Workspace Email uses imap.secureserver.net on 993 with SSL. If your account has already been moved to Microsoft 365, the host is outlook.office365.com instead — the secureserver hosts will not authenticate you.
- Workspace Email is being retired. A migration to another provider is easier to run before that transition than after, when the mailbox has to be treated as Microsoft 365.
- On Microsoft 365 basic authentication is mostly disabled, so an IMAP migration from a moved mailbox needs OAuth rather than a plain password.
- The username is the full address; sending goes through smtpout.secureserver.net on 465.
Questions
The short answers
How do I tell which product my mailbox is on?
Look at where webmail signs you in: a Workspace mailbox uses GoDaddy's own webmail, a migrated one lands in Outlook on the web. The IMAP host follows from that.
And after the move to Microsoft 365?
outlook.office365.com on 993. Microsoft 365 usually needs OAuth rather than a password — our Microsoft 365 guide covers that path.
Which host for legacy Workspace Email?
imap.secureserver.net, port 993, SSL/TLS, with the full address as the username and the mailbox password.
Can I migrate away from GoDaddy without losing folders?
Yes. Messages, the folder tree, flags and original dates come across; the source mailbox is left as it was.
Find out how big your mailbox is. It costs nothing.
Connect two servers, look at the size and decide. Or take the client and keep everything on your side.
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