I received several emails lately that asked me how to setup email clients so that they could retrieve Gmail emails using the POP3 protocol. The Gmail POP3 configuration is fortunately not that complex: The major problem that most users run into is that POP3 has to be enabled in the Gmail web interface before they can actually retrieve their emails in another email client.
Enabling POP3 in Gmail is therefor a two-step process. POP3 needs to be enabled on the Gmail website first before the other email client is configured to connect to Gmail using the POP3 protocol.
Enabling Gmail POP3
Open the Gmail homepage, log into your Gmail account and click on the [Settings] link in the top right corner of the screen to open the Gmail configuration. Now select the [Forwarding and POP/IMAP] link which should open a page just like the one you see below on the screenshot.
You basically got two options here to enable POP3. The first [Enable POP for all mail (even mail that's already been downloaded)] enables POP3 in Gmail for all email messages even those that have already been retrieved while the second [Enable POP for mail that arrives from now on] enables POP3 from that moment on which means that old emails cannot be retrieved. A click on the Save Changes button will save the changes and allow POP3 connections.
Gmail POP3 Data
It is time to create the accounts in the email client now that POP3 has been enabled in Gmail. The procedure is different depending on the email client at hand. Below are the values that need to be entered into the email client.
Email Address: Enter your full Gmail email address
Password: Enter your email password
Incoming Server: pop.gmail.com
Incoming Server Port: 995
Outgoing Server: smtp.gmail.com
Outgoing server (SMTP) port: 587
Encryption: TLS
You can check out the help pages over at Gmail that contain configuration walkthroughs for various popular email clients.
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I don’t see how can anybody be retarded enough not to be able to find the related Gmail Help page by themselves.
I usually enjoy your posts, Martin, but this one is definitely unnecessary.
@Dani
There are plenty users who are… having trouble with that. :)
This post is probably one of those that are more for readers coming from search engines than regular ones.
@Rarst
Those users could also go to Gmail’s relevant help page directly, in my opinion.
What bothers me in this post is it basically consist of 50% “stating the obvious” (things that are obvious even for morons) and 50% copy-paste.
What if any advantage does this method have over just setting forwarding to your POP3 email account?
re: Why bother detailing this … “anyone” can find the GMAIL help page. As one poster said lots of people can’t but (IMHO) not too many of those who can’t read GHacks :-)
As Rarst pointed out this article has not been primarily been written for regular Ghacks readers as most of them are very tech savvy and know how they can find that out on their own. Search engine visitors on the other hand and the readers that emailed me might appreciate the information on that page.
forgot to sign in for followup comments :-(
I don’t see any reason one would want to use POP3, in 2009
What would be your choice then, IMAP?
Any idea when Accounts/Import will be available to everyone? I would like to import my Yahoo mail account to Gmail.
that’s nice post !!!
Thanks for this article. Currently the Gmail help page explaining these steps is down:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=33384&ctx=sibling
Your article has definitely helped me.
Jest taki sewrer, ale nie odpowiada. ;-(