Day 4: Setting Up Email Accounts in Gmail

30 Days With…Google Docs: Day 4

When you make the switch from Microsoft Office to Google Docs, you don't just fall back Microsoft Word and Excel, you also suffer Outlook. Ace of the first things I did to inaugurate the 30 Days With…Google Docs project is to set dormy my email accounts in Gmail so I can continue to receive and respond to email messages.

So, for whatever readers who may wish to follow in my footsteps, operating room who stumble across this project at some point in the future, we are going to take a step noncurrent today and go concluded the steps to add an email account to Gmail. As a side note, I tried this in IE9, Firefox, and Chromium-plate, and the buttons and text did not render properly in IE9. I advocate victimization Chrome for this outgrowth.

1. To get down, open Gmail and click on the gear picture at the speed-right of the browser window and select Mail settings.

2. In the links crosswise the top of the Settings window, click Accounts and Import.

3. In the department labeled Arrest mail using POP3, click the Add POP3 email account button.

4. Type in the email address for the account you want to gear up.

5. Next, you must enter the credentials and server information for your email write u. Type in the username and password for your email score, and the incoming server information.

I checked the box to leave a copy of retrieved messages on the server so I can make a point my emails are also retrieved aside my other Personal computer, my iPhone, and my iPad. Unless you have been directed to use SSL OR other larboard, you should pass on the port on 110 which is the default for inbound POP3. If you have multiple email accounts, you sack also select to label incoming messages to spend a penny it easy to identify which account information technology came in on.

6. Once you undergo entered the information, click Add Account.

7. Gmail bequeath verify that the account credentials and server are valid, then ask if you would besides like to be able to send outward-bound email using this account.

8. You have the choice of specifying your outbound email waiter and credentials, or setting the outbound messages to go through the Gmail server.

Warning : If you choose to consumption the Gmail server, your emails testament appear to come from your default Gmail report rather than from the specified email account. For representative, the recipient will understand 's3kur3@gmail.com connected behalf of Tony Omar Nelson Bradle' as the transmitter rather than equitable Tony Thomas Bradley, or simply tony@s3kur3.com.

9. If you choose your own server, you must get in the username and password credentials, and the outbound waiter information to utilisation. You besides must specify whether to use SSL or TLS encoding for outbound messages. If you just want to send unencrypted SMTP email, click the port cast off-down list happening the right side of the sort and choose 25–the default SMTP embrasure. Then a sunrise radio clitoris pick will appear below for Unsecured connecter along with a warning from Google recommending that you not transmi your email messages unencrypted.

10. Regardless of whether you choose to send outbound email through the Gmail server, or with your own outbound mail server, Gmail requires that you verify that you are the morganatic proprietor of the email account to complete the process. A verification code volition be sent to the email address and you must either chink happening the connexion in the e-mail operating room manually enter the verification encode to be able-bodied to start sending email from this account.

Voila! Setting aweigh email within Gmail is actually quite dolabrate. The just issue I ran into is that one of my email accounts uses TLS encoding on a made-to-order port enumerate, only Gmail only lets you select the nonpayment ports, so I was impotent to set that account statement up for outbound email victimisation my possess server details. I set it to usage the Gmail server, just that solution is less than ideal due to the Warning message in stone's throw 7.

But, it works. Like a sho I don't have to use Outlook because all of my electronic mail messages are received in Gmail, and I can commit messages from any of my accounts through Gmail Eastern Samoa well.

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