POP with Gmail for your website
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Once you have Gmail for your website or business, you may want to access your mail using a client or device that supports POP, like Microsoft Outlook. This can be enabled & used even though you can always check mail using the online panel (http://mail.yoursite.com)
Enabling POP
To enable POP in Gmail:
- Sign in to your mail at http://mail.yoursite.com
- Click Settings at the top of any Gmail page.
- Click Forwarding and POP/IMAP
- Select Enable POP for all mail or Enable POP for mail that arrives from now on.
- Choose the action you'd like your Gmail messages to take after they are accessed with POP.
Outlook 2007
- Enable POP in your email account(as stated above). Don't forget to click Save Changes when you're done.
- Open Outlook.
- Click the Tools menu, and select Account Settings...
- On the E-mail tab, click New...
- If you are prompted to Choose E-mail Service, select Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP, and click Next.
- Fill in all necessary fields to include the following information:
- Click Next. If you are configuring Outlook 2007 automatically, you're done! Just click Finish.
- If you are configuring Outlook 2007 manually, select Internet E-mail and click Next.
- Verify your User Information, and enter the following additional information:
- Click the More Settings... button, and select the Outgoing Server tab.
- Check the box next to My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication and select Use same settings as my incoming mail server.
- Click the Advanced tab, and check the box next to This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) under Incoming Server (POP3).
- In the Outgoing server (SMTP) box, enter 587, and select TLS from the drop-down menu next to Use the following type of encrypted connection:.
- Click OK.
- Click Test Account Settings... After receiving 'Congratulations! All tests completed successfully', click Close.
- Click Next, and then click Finish.
Your Name: Enter your name as you would like it to appear in the From: field of outgoing messages.
Email Address: Enter your full email address (username@your_site.com).
Password: Enter your email password.
Manually configure server settings or additional server types: Leave this option unchecked if you want to automatically configure Outlook 2007. If you want to manually configure Outlook 2007, check this box now. Google Apps users should configure manually as follows.
Server Information
Account Type: POP3
Incoming mail server: pop.gmail.com
Outgoing mail server (SMTP): smtp.gmail.com
Logon Information
User Name: Enter your username (including @your_site.com). <p>Password: Enter your email password.
Require logon using Secure Password Authentication (SPA): Leave this option unchecked.
Congratulations! You're done configuring your client to send and retrieve Gmail messages.
If you experience problems using POP with Outlook, please check the Common Errors or Troubleshooting.
