- Your Gmail account can be used to send and receive emails from email addresses that you have set up on your hosting plan. This is achieved by completing a single step:
- Setting up your business email address as a POP3 and SMTP account in your Gmail account
Setting up your domains email address as a POP3 and SMTP account in your Gmail account- Login to your Gmail account
- Select the ‘gear’ on the top right-hand side and select ‘Settings‘
- Select the ‘Accounts and Import‘ tab
- Select ‘Add an email account‘
- Enter your domains business email address and click ‘Next>>‘
- Tick ‘Import email from my other account (POP3)‘ and click ‘Next>>‘
- Enter your POP3 Server settings in the areas provided (POP Server = yourdomainname.co.nz; Port = 995)
- Remember your username in ‘Username‘ is your entire email address, eg. info@yourdomain.co.nz
- REMEMBER to tick ‘Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail‘ so ensure secure email encryption
- Tick ‘Label incoming messages‘
- Click ‘Add Account‘
- Tick ‘Yes, I want to be able to be able to send mail as info@yourdomain.co.nz‘
- Click ‘Next>>‘
- Add a name that you would like to appear in your emails
- Tick ‘Treat as an alias‘
- Click ‘Next Step>>‘
- SMTP Server = yourdomain.co.nz; Port = 587
- ‘Username‘ is your entire email address, eg. info@yourdomain.co.nz
- Enter your email password
- Tick ‘Secured connection using TLS (recommended)‘
- Click ‘ Add Account
- Google will now send you an email with the verification code to the Gmail email address under which you are creating this account. Click on the link in the email or enter the code in the box provided
- Click ‘Verify‘
- Next under the ‘Accounts and Import‘ tab tick ‘Reply from the same address to which the message was sent‘
- Also next to Send Mail as: select ‘Make default‘ next to info@yourdomain.co.nz
