Google Apps - Managing your email in Outlook, on one computer (POP3)
If
you've chosen to use the fantastic "Google Apps" solution
which we have customised for your company, then here are some helpful
tips on its use and configuration for Outlook, on a single computer. IF you want to synchronise email with a computer, online and with a laptop for example, then our other Google Apps guides will be of more use.
Logging in to webmail:
Go to your login page, located at http://email.yourdomain.com - e.g. http://email.3bweb.com (note that there is no www in the address!)
Log in using your username and password (the username is the part before the @ in your email address)
Click on "settings" at the top right of the screen
Click on "Forwarding and POP" in the dark yellow bar
Under "POP Download" click to "Enable POP" with the appropriate setting
Choose
how you would like GMail to manage email after you have downloaded it
to your Outlook (bear in mind that your GMail inbox is over 6GB in size
and keeping email in here forever will eventually fill it up!)
Click on "Save Changes" at the bottom of the screen
Fire up Outlook, and let's play with the settings in there so you can get at the emails nicely!
Click on the "Tools" Menu in Outlook
Choose "E-mail Accounts" from that menu
Click on "Add a new e-mail account"
Choose "POP3" as the type of server and click on "Next"
Put your name how you would like it to appear (We like this layout: NAME - COMPANY NAME)
Put your email address as the one you would like to send emails FROM
Choose the incoming mail server (POP3) as: pop.gmail.com
Choose the outgoing mail server (SMTP) as: smtp.gmail.com
Put your username as the entire email address
Put your password in as you would use to log in to webmail
Click on "More Settings"
Click on the "Outgoing Server" tab
Tick "My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication and ensure it is set to "use same settings as my incoming mail server"
Click on the "Advanced" tab
Tick both Incoming and Outgoing servers require "an encrypted connection (SSL)"
Ensure the Incoming (POP3) server port number is set to 995
Ensure the Outgoing (SMTP) server port number is set to 465
Click all the appropriate "OK" "Next" and "Finish" buttons to get back to Outlook, and hit the "Send and Receive" button...
Some things to bear in mind:
Google have decided that any email you send will be kept in
your "Sent Items" and so will not deliver to your Outlook any emails
you send to yourself. They will however appear through the web mail
interface. Anyone else you copy in on the same email will receive it as
normal.
Google's excellent spam filtering prevents email
flagged as spam from being collected in your Outlook. If email is
critical to your business, it can be worthwhile to check your spam
folder through the webmail interface from time to time. (3B Web take no
responsibility for wrongly flagged email - this is a 3rd party solution)
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