We understand that it can be easier to keep all emails going to the same place! So we have made this blog with easy instructions on how to add your new website email to Gmail!
The first step is to log in to your Gmail and click the settings cog and Settings:
Then you will need to click on the Accounts and Import tab:
Login into your new branded email address using the credentials we have sent you. Navigate to the inbox to find an email titled 'Client configuration settings for {YOUR DOMAIN}'.
In this email, you'll find the email settings you need for this setup.
Next, go back to the Gmail dialogue box, you want to enter your email address:
Press next, then you'll want to select Import emails from my other account (POP3) since we don't use Gmailify:
And then simply fill in the credentials we provided.
Username - This is your email address
Password - This is the password to your email account
POP Server - This information is available in the email we mentioned above
Port - This information is available in the email we mentioned above
Leave a copy of the retrieved message on the server - This will make a copy of the email and leave it on your hosting account. We don't really recommend doing this as it will chew your disk space and not help you keep a clean inbox.
Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail - You always want to do this!
Label incoming messages: ryan@keydiets.com - This will automatically label the email from your new email address inside of Gmail so you know where it was sent from.
Archive incoming messages - This will skip the inbox and automatically archive the mail. We don't recommend doing this.
Once this has been completed, your email will automatically be imported into Gmail.
One more step before you are done! If when replying to those emails, you don't want the people to ever see your Gmail, you have to import your SMTP settings.
Go to the next screen, to set that up:
Gmail gives you the option to treat the new email account as an alias.
This means, it'll still say you're sending email from your domain, but it will use Gmail's server.
There is no problem in doing this, but if you'd like to use your web hosting account to send the mail as well, you can set that up by checking No.
Most people will want to use an Alias as Gmail as an extremely high inboxing rate.
If you select No, you'll need to follow some additional steps:
Once again, using the information we supplied you'll be able to fill out the appropriate fields:
Save changes here, and then they will send you a verification email where you be required to enter the pin code on the next screen or click the link in the email:
Now when you check your Gmail, you'll also see emails from your web hosting account:
Now you are good to go! All of your emails are in one place and you will still be able to easily distinguish between the two.
