Add Your Business Email To Send And Receive Emails via Gmail Interface

Add Your Business Email Account to Gmail to Receive Incoming Emails

1. Log in to your Gmail account.
2. Click the gear icon in the top right.
3. Select See All Settings.
4. Select the Accounts and Import tab.
5. In the Check email from other accounts section, click Add an email account.
6. Enter your full business email address (username@yourdomain.com), then click Next
   
7. And again click Next on the page that follows making sure the Import emails from my other account (POP3) option is selected.
8. Enter your full business email address in the username field and your password in the password field. Add mail.yourdomain.com in the POP server field and set the port to 995 (secure/encrypted option) or 110 (non secure option) as shown in the screenshot below.
9. Now you have a few options to checkmark. Here are our recommended settings:

• • Leave a copy of retrieved messages on the server – Otherwise, emails will be stored on your server and you might face quota problem.
  • Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail – Keep checked. If you check mark this option you need to select port 995 and not 110.
  • Label incoming messages – Don’t Check unless you want the emails sent to your business email account get labeled as being sent to your business email address.
  • Archive incoming messages – Don’t check. If you check you won’t see the emails that will be sent to your Business email address.

9. Click Add Account. If you get an error in this step, click the Show error details link to find out more about it and then send a screenshot of the error to your webmaster (Here is a free screenshot tool: https://evernote.com/skitch/)
10. Optionally, you can let your webmaster know which Gmail account you are setting up your Business email address on so that they set a forwarder on the server for you to help you receive emails on Gmail instantly and without any delay.
11. Once your account has been added successfully, Gmail will ask you if you want to be able to also send out emails with this email address that you just added. For this, you need to go through the steps in the next section. This will allow you to be able to send out emails with your Business email address using your Gmail account.

Add Your Business Email Account to Gmail to Send Outgoing Emails

1. Open your Gmail account.
2. Click the gear icon in the top right.
3. Select See All Settings.
4. Click the Accounts and Import tab.
5. Under Send mail as click Add another email address.
6. In the ‘Email address’ field, enter your business email account (username@yourdomain.com) and in the ‘Name’ field enter your full name. Make sure to uncheck the Treat as an alias option as shown in the image below.
7. Enter the SMTP server (mail.yourdomain.com), your username which is same as your business email address, and your password for your business email address. Select port 587 if you want to select TLS as the security option or select port 465 if you want to select SSL as your security option as shown in the image below and click on Add Account.
8. A confirmation code will be sent to the business email account you are adding; you should either click the link in this confirmation email that Gmail will send to you or enter the confirmation code in the next page that appears as shown in the image below:
9. To access the confirmation email, you need to login to your business email using the webmail interface by going to your webmail url which can be webmail.yourdomain.com. Alternatively, you can ask your webmaster to forward you this confirmation email.
10. After successfully adding your business email address to your Gmail account you can set your newly added business email address as the default sender address from under Gmail Settings page, Accounts and Imports tab, Send mail as section.