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Tomorrow: Reset Microsoft Word's faulty defaults. Check over the account settings, click Finish, and then OK. Use Thunderbird's Account Wizard to add your Gmail messages to the mail program.Įnter your "Incoming user name" (if Thunderbird doesn't add it to the field automatically), click Next, type in your Gmail address (Thunderbird should do this for you as well), and click Next one more time. Choose POP or IMAP, whichever is appropriate, enter the Gmail server address (either or ), leave User Global Inbox (store mail in Local Folders) checked if you want the mail kept in Thunderbird as well as in Gmail, and click Next once again. Enter your name and Gmail address, and click Next again. To add your Gmail account to Mozilla Thunderbird, click Tools*Account Settings*Add Account, choose Email account, and click Next. The program will attempt an encrypted connection, and will opt for an unencrypted one if the first try fails.
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Fill in your name, e-mail address, and password (twice), and then click Next again. Choose Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP, and click Next.
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Configure Outlook 2003 to download your Gmail messages automatically.Īccess Outlook 2007's Add New E-mail Account wizard by clicking Tools*Account Settings*New. Enter your name, Gmail address, logon name and password, and the incoming and outgoing server addresses: and, respectively, if you use POP, or and, respectively, if you use IMAP. On the Server Type screen, select POP3 or IMAP, whichever you set Gmail to, and click Next again. If you use Outlook 2003, click Tools*E-mail Accounts, choose Add a new e-mail account, and click Next. Once you've got Gmail set to forward, you're ready to add the account to your desktop mail program. Set Gmail to forward its messages to the POP account in your desktop mail program. If your ISP mail account uses IMAP, simply click Enable IMAP.
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In the drop-down menu to the left of "When messages are accessed with POP," you can choose to keep the messages in your Gmail inbox, archive them automatically, or delete them. If your ISP uses POP3, choose Enable POP for all mail if you want to see all your current Gmail messages in your desktop mail app, or Enable POP only for mail that arrives from now on if you want to keep your existing Gmail stuff where it is and get only new messages forwarded to your mail program. Start by logging into Gmail, clicking the Settings link in the top-left corner, and selecting Forwarding and POP/IMAP.
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Lots of people prefer the sorting, contact lists, and other features of their client mail program, so today I'm going to turn things around and tell you how to forward mail sent to your Gmail address in the Outlook or Thunderbird inbox for your ISP mail account.
When you run into trouble post back and let us know what's happening.Last Friday I described how to receive messages sent to your ISP mail account in your Gmail inbox. Get yourself a cuppa for your nerves, a pencil and paper to make notes with and dive in. For Authentication method choose normal password. In Thunderbird, for connection security choose SSL/TLS. You will get a security complaint and you need to accept that POP3 (according to Google) is less secure than IMAP.
You will need to configure gmail to accept POP3. If not, Gmail will send all existing (even read) messages to HESK when it first.
You will need to manually sign into your gmail account and enter the setup section which took me forever to find. POP3 Host: POP3 Port: 995 TLS Protocol: ON POP3 Username: (your Gmail username) POP3 Password: (your Gmail password) Important: make 100 sure that 'POP3 download' in your Gmail settings is set to 'Enable POP for mail that arrives from now on'. One of my frustrations is that it took me all day to discover that for my user name they wanted my email address. Your migration might be easy or it might take hours and hours and be frustrating. Just remember, it's not a bible and your settings may be different. The instructions in this link are reasonably good. For those of us who still used POP3 the migration was a nightmare.
A year ago my long suffering ISP made a deal with Google and migrated its email service to gmail. For other programs not listed, use these settings to connect your Comcast email: Incoming Mail Server Name:.