Gmail has a built-in functionality that allows you to check emails from external accounts using the POP3 email protocol.
You can configure your email accounts in your Gmail interface by following the steps below:
Incoming Mail Configuration
- Sign in to your Gmail Account.
- Choose Settings, from the Settings tab
- Go to Accounts and Import
- Under the section Check mail from other accounts choose Add a mail account
- Enter your Email address (e.g. user@yourdomainname.com)
- Click the Next button
- Username: enter your full email address (e.g. user@yourdomainname.com)
- Password: you should place the password for the above email address
- POP Server: Your Secure SSL/TLS server settings are listed in cPanel -> Email Accounts -> More -> Configure Email Client
- POP3 port: 995
- Leave a copy of retrieved message on the server can be selected if you wish to save your messages on the servers as well
- Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail needs to be checked
- Click on Add Account
You can continue with the SMTP server setup if you wish to send mail from your email address:
Outgoing Mail (SMTP)
- Select Yes, I want to be able to send mail as user@yourdomainname.com
- Choose if you will use this address as an Alias
- SMTP server: Use the same secure server as you did in the incoming settings configuration
- SMTP port: 465
- Username: enter your full email address (e.g. user@yourdomainname.com)
- Password: the password for this email account
- Check the Secured connection using SSL option as well
- Click on Add account
Gmail will send you a verification email that you have to approve, so you can use the SMTP functionality.