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Understanding the concept of e-mail category
Hi, I am a little bit confused about the concept with e-mails in 1Password.
There is a seperate category of e-mail items.
There you can enter all the e-mail relaitet stuff like servernames, ...
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@MaRob
The Email category is used for storing credentials and email server information used to configure an email client (e.g. Outlook, macOS Mail, Thunderbird, etc.). It is not used for storing credentials for web-based email logins. For that, as DenalB says, use a Login.
Think of 1Password categories as basic templates to suit a given purpose. Most of them are just data holders, per-configured with fields that were meaningful when the template was designed (and still may be applicable today). And so you can chose the one that meets your needs.
But a few are special - Login, Identity, Credit Card. These are used to auto-fill web pages with the data stored in the respective record. Since your usage of mail is via the web, a Login is the right category.
