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Use Gmail with Your Business Email Address
When you set up a free Google account you created a Gmail address. Gmail is a great tool for managing email - you can view your inbox wherever you have an internet connection and get more storage space than you'll know what to do with. What if you'd like to handle all your email with Gmail?
Here are instructions to set up Gmail to handle your existing business email address:
- Log into Gmail
- Choose Settings
- Go to Accounts and Import
- Choose Add POP3 Email Account under Check mail using POP3
- Enter email address, user name (full email address) and password
- If necessary, change the server settings and port number (GoDaddy customers leave this as is)
- You have the option to label incoming messages automatically and to leave the retrieved messages on your server (if you choose this option, you will need to remember to delete messages from the server periodically to avoid a mailbox full error)
- Click Add Account and leave Yes, I want to be able to send mail as . . . selected
- Click Next Step
- Name this email address and click Next Step
- To customize your From address to match your business email, choose the SMTP option for outgoing servers
- Enter your server name (GoDaddy customers use smtpout.secureserver.net), user name (full email address) and password
- You will receive a confirmation email to your existing address - click on the link in that email to confirm
- Once confirmed, when you are in Compose Mail in Gmail you can choose which account to send from in the drop down box
- Send yourself a test email to your business address to verify you are receiving in Gmail. That's it!
Laura A. McArtor is the owner of Widow's Peak Web Design (www.widowspeak.com).
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