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In this guide, we show you how to set up your email account in Gmail with POP3. This is the main console of changing the settings. Step 9 - Open the Gmail Confirmation email. Choose Manual Setup or Additional Server Types. When you have the Account Settings box open, click New. After that, switch to the Forwarding and POP/IMAP Opt for the Enable IMAP option in the IMAP Access section. Select the see all settings option to open all settings options. Follow these steps to accomplish this: Open Outlook. Add Gmail to Outlook 2016 Step 1: Enable Gmail IMAP setting in Outlook 2016 First, log in to your Gmail account and click on the Gear icon. In the advanced tab you will see the options to change ports you can modify SMTP and IMAP or POP ports here you can also specify SSL Settings. When you’re done with that step, you can add your Gmail account to your Outlook platform. Once you see the properties dialog go to the advanced tab. To change your SMTP settings in Windows Live Mail right click your account from the left pane and choose Properties So if you’re looking for steps to modify existing e-mail settings then welcome on board and let’s continue without talking further. Knowing this that change isn’t constant as the technology updates things changes. Gmail, enable us the option of connecting our Gmail mailbox using POP3, IMAP, and SMTP protocols. Obstacle 1- the need to configure our Gmail account to support IMAP protocol. The information i am giving you is not to make all of this complicated but to give a basic user general understanding. To complete successfully the mission of connecting our Outlook mail client to a Gmail mailbox, we will need to Jump over several obstacles. Similarly receiving port (earlier pop), then IMAP, and then variation of imap ports (143, 993) were introduced.
In the past we’ve only had one simple port which was 25 for sending later SSL/TLS ports were introduced for encryption of your messages, and then this was enforced and pushed as a permanent for sending to avoid spam, and hacking activities. Many of us are unaware of this and panic when there’s no need to because what they do is for your security. E-mail providers continually update things at their end which results in a mess on your end.