If you plan to use a desktop email program, you’ll need to tell Gmail to allow POP3 and/or IMAP access to your mail. Once you have a Gmail account, there are a couple of configuration changes you’ll want to make in order to have this work seamlessly for you. Make sure to set up a strong password, and set up all the recovery information you can. Just go to and follow the steps to create an account. (I happen to own “”, so I know I’m not abusing someone else’s domain for example purposes.) I’ll use as an example of an email address already set up on that domain.Ĭreate a Gmail account if you don’t already have one. Purchasing a domain is perhaps the best way to get an email address that you can keep pretty much forever. I’ll use “ ” as an example of a domain that you have purchased and own. This is the same information you get from your provider to configure a desktop program such as Microsoft Office Outlook, Windows Live Mail, or Thunderbird.
You will need to know the POP3 settings to access the email in that account, and you will need to know the SMTP settings to send mail from that account. That existing account can be on a free provider, like or Yahoo!, it can be a paid account, or it can be an account configured on a domain you own. The point of this exercise is to access your non-Google email using Google’s Gmail service.
You need to start with a working email account at some provider that is not Google. I’ll show you how to use Gmail for any email account supporting POP3 and SMTP access. I use Gmail almost exclusively these days to handle my email, my other business related emails, and my personal email as well. What many people don’t realize is that you can use Gmail to handle email from almost any email address you have. Only a small amount of spam makes it through, and very few false positives are thrown. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that as I write this, it is perhaps the best.
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