Gmail POP3 Configuration
I received several emails lately in which I was asked to explain how to set up email clients correctly so that they would connect to Gmail using Pop3.
The POP3 configuration of Gmail is fortunately not that difficult: The major problem that most users run into is that POP3 has to be enabled on the Gmail web interface before they can actually configure their clients to connect to the service using the protocol.
Failure to do so will only result in connection errors.
Enabling POP3 in Gmail is therefore a two-step process. POP3 needs to be enabled on the Gmail website first before the third-party email client can be 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 cogwheel icon in the top right corner of the screen and then on settings in the context menu to load the Gmail preferences.
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 on Gmail for all email messages even those that have already been retrieved while the second, Enable POP for mail that arrives from now onm enables POP3 from that moment on which means that old emails are not retrieved.
A click on the Save Changes button will save the changes and allow POP3 connections.
Gmail POP3 Data
It is time to create accounts in the email client now that POP3 has been enabled for Gmail. The procedure is different depending on the email client at hand, and some clients may support Gmail so that you may only need to enter your email address and password to create the connection.
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
- Use SSL: Yes
- 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 assistance for various popular email clients.
You said that Outlook isn’t your main email client, so which is your main one?
I think its thunderbird
It is Mozilla Thunderbird.
Awesome! This actually solved my problem… what a stupid bug.
If this is the same bug that I’ve encountered, there may be another fix: (1) hover over open Outlook item in Taskbar, cursor up to hover over Outlook window item, and right-click; (2) this should give you Restore / Move / Size / Minimize / Maximize — choose Move or Size; (3) use your cursor keys, going arbitrarily N/S/E/W, to try to move or size the Outlook window back into view. Basically, the app behaves as though it were open in a 0x0 window, or at a location that’s offscreen, and this will frequently work to resize and/or move the window. Don’t forget to close while resized/moved, so that Outlook remembers the size/position for next time.
THANK YOU Claude!!! I could get the main window to launch but could not get any other message window to show on the desktop. You are my hero!!!!
Solved my issue! 6 years later and this is still problem…
Fantastic. Thank you. Size did the trick.
This solved my Outlook problem, too. Thank you. :)
Thank you so much, this started happening to me today and was causing big problems. You are a life saver, I hope I can help you in some way some day.
You are a god – thank you!
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Yah…thanks Claude. I’ve been having the same problem and tried all the suggestions…your solution was the answer. It had resized itself to a 0/0 box. Cheers
Excellent post. This had me baffled even trying to accurately describe the problem. This fixed it for me.
Thank you
Thanks a lot for the article. Don’t know why it happenend, don’t know how it got fixed, but it was really annoying and now it works :-)
Thanks a lot. I was facing this issue from past 3 week. I tried everything but no resolution. The issue was happening intermittently and mainly when I was changing the display of screen ( as i use 2 monitors). The only option i had was to do system restore. But thanks to you.
I’ve been tried to sole this problem for 12hours. Your comment about changing the display of screen helped me a lot!! Thanks!!
Thank you…don’t know why this happened but your instructions helped me fix it. Running Windows 10 and office pro 2007
Great tip! Thanks!
Worked for me, too – thank you!!!
It’s Worked for me, too
thank you very much!
I had a similar issue with Outlook 2013 on Windows 10 and this helped me to fix it. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much. Solved!
Considering you published this in 2012, incredible not been debugged by Microsoft.
Thank you again. M
This problem was faced by only one user logging to TS 2008 r2 using outlook 2010.The issue was resolved.
Thanks.
Great tip. Thank you!!!! If it helps, I had to use the Control Key and the arrow keys at the same time to bring my window back into view. Worked like a charm.
Thank you, this worked !!!!
Man, you are a fucking god. Thanks a lot, what an annoying bug!!
Awesome, this post solved the issue. Many thanks!