The Complete Home.se Email Settings: POP3, IMAP, and SMTP (Sweden) [Discontinued]

Home.se was a Swedish consumer email domain, part of the Spray family of services rather than an independent internet provider. It is no longer a mail service you can sign up for, and there is no longer any official documentation of its settings: the home.se website is offline and the support site that once published its POP3 and IMAP values no longer exists. This page explains what can and cannot be established about home.se mail, why the settings circulating on directory sites should not be trusted, and how to move to a mailbox that is actually supported.

What can be established about home.se email

Home.se was not a standalone Swedish ISP in the way Bredbandsbolaget or Com Hem were. It belonged to the Spray group of consumer services, and the clearest primary evidence is Spray’s own press release of 31 March 2008 announcing a change of mail platform: Spray moved its mail from Lycos Europe to the American provider Mail2World, and the announcement explicitly covered Spray’s free mail, the paid Spray Mail Premium tier, and home.se together. That is a direct statement, from the operator, that home.se was one of the consumer mail domains in the Spray stable.

Two things are true at once today, and the page is only useful if it says both. On one hand, the mail infrastructure has not been formally dismantled: as of August 2026 the MX records for home.se still point to Mail2World’s Spray mail servers, the same records that spray.se and passagen.se publish. On the other hand, everything a user would need in order to actually use the service is gone. The home.se site itself does not serve a page. The Spray Passagen support site, which hosted the official POP3 and IMAP settings article, no longer resolves in DNS at all. There is no signup route, no published documentation, and no support channel. Swedish tech coverage also reported that the free Spray and home.se mail tier ended on 1 March 2021, with users required to move to the paid tier to keep access; that date comes from tech press rather than from an operator announcement, and the original support page that would have confirmed it is offline.

So the honest conclusion is this: no announcement has been found stating that home.se mail was shut down, and this page does not claim one. But as a consumer email provider, in the sense of something you can obtain an address from, configure a client against, or get help with, home.se no longer exists. Anyone still holding an @home.se address should treat it as unsupported and move, because there is no documentation to configure against and no support to appeal to if it stops working.

Option 1: Use Gmail

Gmail is the practical answer for anyone still holding an @home.se address. It is free, provider-independent, and the address stays yours regardless of which Swedish operator or portal you use.

1. Create a Gmail account

Go to gmail.com and set up an account with an address you can live with long-term.

2. Import from your existing mailbox while you still can

In Gmail, Settings then Accounts and Import then Import mail and contacts. Gmail can pull messages from any mailbox you can still authenticate against with POP3 credentials. If your @home.se mailbox is still reachable in a mail client that was configured years ago, do this now rather than later, because there is no support channel to recover it through if it stops.

3. Export anything held locally

If an old mail client on an old machine still holds home.se folders, export them to .mbox or .pst and keep them as an offline archive. Local copies survive whatever happens to the server side.

4. Notify your contacts

Send a change-of-address message from Gmail to your contact list, mentioning the old @home.se address so recipients can search and update their records.

Option 2: Use Outlook.com

Microsoft’s outlook.com is the equivalent alternative. Settings then Sync email then Other email accounts handles imports from POP3 credentials. Best fit if you already use OneDrive, Office online, or Microsoft 365.

Alternatives at a glance

Common issues

Mail client returns connection refused or a certificate error for home.se

There is no operator documentation to check a value against, and no support channel to ask. If a client that worked for years has stopped, treat the mailbox as unrecoverable and move to an account you can actually get help with.

An aggregator site lists working home.se settings

Those values cannot be verified against any operator source, because the official settings page is offline. They may be stale copies of values that were correct at some point, or invented. Neither is a basis for configuring a mailbox.

The home.se website does not load

Correct, and expected. The domain no longer serves a site. This is the clearest single signal that home.se is not an operating consumer service, whatever its mail records still say.

Old messages archived in a mail client under home.se folders

Those local copies survive independently of the server. Export the folders to .mbox or .pst and store them offline. If you moved to a new device without exporting, the messages went with the old device.

Frequently asked questions

Where to go next

Home.se belongs to the wider story of Swedish consumer mail consolidation, where portal brands of the late 1990s were bought, merged, outsourced, and eventually left without support while their mail records kept resolving. Spray and Passagen share its platform; Com Hem and Bredbandsbolaget followed different paths under different owners.

• Spray email settings (discontinued)
• Passagen.se email settings (discontinued)
• Gmail POP3, IMAP, and SMTP settings
• Discontinued email providers: historical timeline and migration paths