diff --git a/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/login_param.rs b/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/login_param.rs
index 6036709cd..2bbc16f43 100644
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/login_param.rs
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/login_param.rs
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ pub struct EnteredLoginParam {
     /// If true, login via OAUTH2 (not recommended anymore).
     /// Default: false
     pub oauth2: Option<bool>,
+
+    /// IP addresses for prefilling DNS
+    pub dns_prefill: Vec<String>,
 }
 
 impl From<dc::EnteredLoginParam> for EnteredLoginParam {
@@ -75,6 +78,7 @@ impl From<dc::EnteredLoginParam> for EnteredLoginParam {
             smtp_password: param.smtp.password.into_option(),
             certificate_checks: certificate_checks.into_option(),
             oauth2: param.oauth2.into_option(),
+            dns_prefill: param.dns_prefill,
         }
     }
 }
@@ -101,6 +105,7 @@ impl TryFrom<EnteredLoginParam> for dc::EnteredLoginParam {
             },
             certificate_checks: param.certificate_checks.unwrap_or_default().into(),
             oauth2: param.oauth2.unwrap_or_default(),
+            dns_prefill: param.dns_prefill,
         })
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/login_param.rs b/src/login_param.rs
index 5c6864f11..1a5e74dc6 100644
--- a/src/login_param.rs
+++ b/src/login_param.rs
@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ pub struct EnteredLoginParam {
 
     /// If true, login via OAUTH2 (not recommended anymore)
     pub oauth2: bool,
+
+    /// IP addresses for prefilling DNS
+    pub dns_prefill: Vec<String>,
 }
 
 impl EnteredLoginParam {
@@ -191,6 +194,7 @@ impl EnteredLoginParam {
             },
             certificate_checks,
             oauth2,
+            dns_prefill: Default::default(),
         })
     }
 
@@ -360,6 +364,7 @@ mod tests {
             },
             certificate_checks: Default::default(),
             oauth2: false,
+            dns_prefill: Default::default(),
         };
         param.save(&t).await?;
         assert_eq!(
diff --git a/src/qr.rs b/src/qr.rs
index a289d9aaf..0af1cdc29 100644
--- a/src/qr.rs
+++ b/src/qr.rs
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ use percent_encoding::{NON_ALPHANUMERIC, percent_decode_str, percent_encode};
 use rand::TryRngCore as _;
 use rand::distr::{Alphanumeric, SampleString};
 use serde::Deserialize;
+use url::Url;
 
 use crate::config::Config;
 use crate::contact::{Contact, ContactId, Origin};
@@ -656,6 +657,7 @@ async fn decode_ideltachat(context: &Context, prefix: &str, qr: &str) -> Result<
 /// scheme: `DCACCOUNT:example.org`
 /// or `DCACCOUNT:https://example.org/new`
 /// or `DCACCOUNT:https://example.org/new_email?t=1w_7wDjgjelxeX884x96v3`
+/// or `dcaccount:example.org?a=127.0.0.1,[::1]`
 fn decode_account(qr: &str) -> Result<Qr> {
     let payload = qr
         .get(DCACCOUNT_SCHEME.len()..)
@@ -784,9 +786,33 @@ pub(crate) async fn login_param_from_account_qr(
     if !payload.starts_with(HTTPS_SCHEME) {
         let rng = &mut rand::rngs::OsRng.unwrap_err();
         let username = Alphanumeric.sample_string(rng, 9);
-        let addr = username + "@" + payload;
+        let host = if let Some(start_of_query) = payload.find("?") {
+            payload
+                .get(..start_of_query)
+                .context("failed to ignore query part")?
+        } else {
+            payload
+        };
+        let addr = username + "@" + host;
         let password = Alphanumeric.sample_string(rng, 50);
 
+        let dns_prefill: Vec<String> = match Url::parse(qr) {
+            Ok(url) => {
+                let options = url.query_pairs();
+                let parameter_map: BTreeMap<String, String> = options
+                    .map(|(key, value)| (key.into_owned(), value.into_owned()))
+                    .collect();
+                parameter_map
+                    .get("a")
+                    .map(|ips| ips.split(",").map(|s| s.to_owned()).collect())
+                    .unwrap_or_default()
+            }
+            Err(err) => {
+                error!(context, "error parsing parameter of account url: {err}");
+                Default::default()
+            }
+        };
+
         let param = EnteredLoginParam {
             addr,
             imap: EnteredServerLoginParam {
@@ -796,6 +822,7 @@ pub(crate) async fn login_param_from_account_qr(
             smtp: Default::default(),
             certificate_checks: EnteredCertificateChecks::Strict,
             oauth2: false,
+            dns_prefill,
         };
         return Ok(param);
     }
@@ -816,6 +843,7 @@ pub(crate) async fn login_param_from_account_qr(
             smtp: Default::default(),
             certificate_checks: EnteredCertificateChecks::Strict,
             oauth2: false,
+            dns_prefill: Default::default(),
         };
 
         Ok(param)
diff --git a/src/qr/dclogin_scheme.rs b/src/qr/dclogin_scheme.rs
index cd4352498..5262f5d61 100644
--- a/src/qr/dclogin_scheme.rs
+++ b/src/qr/dclogin_scheme.rs
@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ pub(crate) fn login_param_from_login_qr(
                 },
                 certificate_checks: certificate_checks.unwrap_or_default(),
                 oauth2: false,
+                dns_prefill: Default::default(),
             };
             Ok(param)
         }
diff --git a/src/qr/qr_tests.rs b/src/qr/qr_tests.rs
index d6dc88f72..d5e00357e 100644
--- a/src/qr/qr_tests.rs
+++ b/src/qr/qr_tests.rs
@@ -711,6 +711,31 @@ async fn test_decode_account() -> Result<()> {
     Ok(())
 }
 
+#[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread", worker_threads = 2)]
+async fn test_decode_account_with_dns_prefill() -> Result<()> {
+    let ctx = &TestContext::new().await;
+
+    for (qr, prefill_ips) in [
+        (
+            "dcaccount:example.org?a=127.0.0.1,[::1]",
+            vec!["127.0.0.1", "[::1]"],
+        ),
+        (
+            "DCACCOUNT:example.org?a=127.0.0.1,[::1]",
+            vec!["127.0.0.1", "[::1]"],
+        ),
+        ("dcaccount:example.org?a=[::1]", vec!["[::1]"]),
+        ("DCACCOUNT:example.org?a=127.0.0.1", vec!["127.0.0.1"]),
+    ] {
+        let param = login_param_from_account_qr(ctx, qr).await?;
+        println!("addr {}", param.addr);
+        assert!(param.addr.ends_with("example.org"));
+        assert_eq!(param.dns_prefill, prefill_ips);
+    }
+
+    Ok(())
+}
+
 #[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread", worker_threads = 2)]
 async fn test_decode_tg_socks_proxy() -> Result<()> {
     let t = TestContext::new().await;