Connect your Yandex Mail mailbox
Your office sends and reads e-mail through your own business mailbox — never a shared address, and never without your approval. This page takes you from nothing to a working Yandex Mail mailbox.
Everything here is the same information the Need help? drawer on the Connectors page shows you, drawn from the same place, so the two can never disagree.
What you need
Section titled “What you need”- The full e-mail address of the mailbox your office should send from, and the ability to sign in to it.
- A one-time app password, which you create in the steps below. Your office never receives your everyday sign-in password.
- Your business postal address, and the reason you are allowed to write to the people your office will contact. The form asks for both before it will let you save, so have them to hand — see “Finish the form, in this order” below.
If you would rather not type settings at all, the Connectors page offers a sign-in button for Yandex Mail under Connect your business mailbox. Where that button has not been set up it reads Not available yet — and then the steps below are the path that works everywhere.
Getting your password
Section titled “Getting your password”- In Yandex Mail settings → “Email clients”, turn on both “Use a mail client to retrieve your Yandex mail via IMAP” and “App passwords and OAuth tokens” — IMAP access is off by default for a new mailbox.
- Go to your Yandex ID account → App passwords → “Create an app password”, choose application type “Mail”, and name it (e.g. your business name).
- Yandex shows the app password once — copy it immediately, and use it (never your normal Yandex account password) as the password in the mailbox settings in the next section.
The settings to enter
Section titled “The settings to enter”On the Connectors page, find Email connector. The button that opens the form reads Advanced: SMTP / IMAP if you have never connected a mailbox, and Change connector if one is already connected — both open the same form, and the form itself is headed SMTP / IMAP.
| Setting | SMTP (outgoing) | IMAP (incoming, optional) |
|---|---|---|
| Host | smtp.yandex.com | imap.yandex.com |
| Port | 465 (or 587) | 993 |
| Username | The mailbox’s full e-mail address | The same full e-mail address |
| Password | The app password from the steps above | The same app password |
Encryption: SSL/TLS (465) or STARTTLS if the client cannot start encrypted (587) for outgoing mail, SSL/TLS for incoming.
Leave Use TLS ticked on both halves of the form.
The outgoing fields are labelled SMTP host, Port, Use TLS, Username and Password. Incoming mail is optional: tick Also configure IMAP (optional) to reveal IMAP host, IMAP port, Use TLS, Username and Password. Your office can send without it, but it can only read replies once incoming mail is set up.
Finish the form, in this order
Section titled “Finish the form, in this order”The mail settings above are not the whole form. Two more answers are required before it will save, and two buttons finish the job:
- Confirm your business postal address. Required by law on business e-mail, not by us — it appears at the bottom of everything your office sends.
- Choose your legal basis for contacting these people. Pick the option that matches how you got your contacts. The form says so itself: most small businesses choose “They are a potential customer for our business”, and that is the default rather than a requirement.
- Save connector. If saving does nothing, the postal address is the field to check first — an empty one blocks the save and the page says so above the box. (Your legal basis cannot block it: the form starts with an option already chosen.)
- Test connection. Until you do, the mailbox reads Waiting for verification: drafts still work, but sending needs it.
Good to know
Section titled “Good to know”- A regular Yandex account password is rejected by SMTP/IMAP by design — the app password is not optional here, unlike some other providers.
- Outside Russia, some accounts use imap.ya.ru instead of imap.yandex.com — if the settings above are refused, check which domain your Yandex Mail account page shows.
Where these settings come from
Section titled “Where these settings come from”Every fact on this page was checked on 2026-08-04 against the documentation Yandex Mail publishes itself. Providers do move these things. If what you see on screen no longer matches what is written here, their own pages are the authority:
Still stuck? The Connectors page has a Need help? button, and inside it a Still stuck? Ask the CEO button that hands the question to your CEO, naming the provider you were reading about.