Sunday, June 28, 2009

Setting Up Evolution Mail with Gmail

1. Log into Gmail from your Internet Browser

2. Click on the Settings tab, then click on the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab

3. Click to Enable POP and IMAP



4. Open up Evolution Mail

5. Follow the Wizard through the process. When it is at the Receiving email section use the following settings

Server Type: POP
Configuration
Server: pop.gmail.com
Username: enter your Gmail username



6. Continue on through the Wizard until you get to the Sending Mail section

Use the following settings:

# I forgot to take a screenshot, the following settings are self explanatory.

Server type: SMTP
Server: smtp.gmail.com
Security: SSL
Username: yourusername@gmail.com (enter full email address)

Continue your way through the Wizard and click Send/Receive and that it!

1 comment:

  1. You've set receiving options to POP, but that is a very basic protocol. You way want to consider using imap like explained here http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78799. This way if you do things in your client (deleting mails or organizing in folders) the same is done on your gmail account. It stays synchronized.
    Btw these same settings also work with claws-mail, which is a far more leightweight mail client for linux.

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