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This guide will show you how to setup your favorite email client to send and receive from your Gmail account.

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Keep in mind that if you use WordPress for your website, the contact form can be configured to send to any email address. This effectively bypasses the need for a domain email account like greatguy@effectiveclassywebsites.com and it means you don’t get any spam. Yay!

Here are some of the benefits of a Gmail account:

1. A permanent email address that hopefully will never have to be changed.
2. An email account that you can check from your favorite email client OR from anywhere in the world through a browser on the net.
3. A huge storage space (3GB and growing) means that you’re very unlikely to go over the quota and miss emails. You can also send email attachments up to 10MB. Very cool.
4. Access to loads of other free services that automatically come with a Gmail account. Things like, Google Calendar, Maps, iGoogle home page, Language Tools, Analytics (for website monitoring), Google Desktop and many more other free goodies.

So if you don’t already have a Gmail account I guess its time to get one!

Sign Up for a Gmail Account here.

How to setup Gmail with your favorite email client:

In this tutorial I will use screen shots with the instructions to guide you through setting up Gmail in your POP mail client.

1. Start at your inbox in Gmail.
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3. On the top right of the screen click the Settings link.
4. From the settings page you are look for the Forwarding and POP link.
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6. Now we want to configure this page to enable POP access. We have 2 choices. We can set it to receive all mail, both previous and in the future, or just from now on. Its up to you.
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8. We can also choose whether we want the mail we check from our client to be automatically archived on the web Gmail or kept in the Inbox. I prefer the archive choice so that when I check my mail from a browser I see only new mail that I haven’t already checked with my computer.
9. Click Save Changes at the bottom of the page.
10. Now we want to configure our mail client to send and receive from our Gmail account.(this will open a new window) Go to the Supported POP Client list page on Google.
    
11. From here we can see all the mail client applications. Each one has a unique setup. Click on the link for your mail client.
12. For your reference I have collected the specific information you will need here as well. Make sure you follow the instructions to the letter and enter all details Verbatim.

Do it once thoroughly and you will be up and running in no time.

• Incoming Mail Server : pop.gmail.com
• User Name : yourname@gmail.com
• Password : *********
• Outgoing Mail Server : smtp.gmail.com
• Server port: 587
• Check the box next to ‘Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
• Use authentication for sending mail by entering your full username and password into the outgoing server section.

And here again in Google Format

Servers tab

My incoming mail server is a:	POP3 server
Incoming mail (POP3):	pop.gmail.com
User Name:	(your Gmail address, including ‘@gmail.com’)
Password:	(your Gmail password)

Outgoing Mail Server: Settings

Server Name:	smtp.gmail.com
Server port:	25 or 587
Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL):	Checked
Authentication:	Password

Advanced tab

Enable this account:	Checked
Include when automatically checking for new mail:	Checked
Remove copy from server after retrieving a message:	Checked
(Incoming) Port:	995
Authentication:	Password

If you followed these instructions you should be able now to send and receive mail to your email application. You are Gmailed up!

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