Your Gmail email can be easily accessed through Apple Mail. Here is how:
Step One Log into your Gmail account. If you don't have one you can sign up here: http://www.gmail.com
Step Two Once signed in click on the Settings link in the top right hand corner.
Step Three Select the Forwarding and Pop tab from the settings window.
Step Four Select the option called Enable Pop for all mail and click Save Changes
Step Five Launch Apple Mail by clicking on its icon in the dock.
Step Six Select Preferences from the Mail menu or press Command-, on the keyboard.
Step Seven Go to the accounts tab and click on the + sign at the bottom left hand corner.
Step Eight A popup will appear asking you to fill in your account information. Fill in the information applicable to your gmail account and then click Create.
Step Nine Apple mail will then automatically find and set the correct server information for Gmail. When setup completes you will return to the Accounts tab of Apple Mail Preferences. Your window should look like this:
Step Ten Close the Preferences window and return to your inbox. It should look like this!
NOTE**: For those interested the manual setup for the servers is:
Username: gmail username (whats before @gmail.com) Password: gmail password Incoming Mail Server: pop.gmail.com Incoming Mail Server Port: 995 Incoming Mail Server Use SSL: Yes Incoming Mail Server Authentication: Password Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.gmail.com Outgoing Mail Server Port: 25 Outgoing Mail Server Use SSL: Yes Outgoing Mail Server Authentication: Password
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Mail 3.x doesn't seem to allow you to specify different ports for outgoing vs. incoming. Some of the settings fields from Mail 2.x are no longer there.
Hi, The tutorial is written using Mac OS X Leopard. That is most likely why you are not seeing the same options. If you are still using Tiger you can input the settings manually. If you are having problems inputing the settings manually please send off an email to support@iClarified.com describing the exact problem and I'll try to help!
I just tried your "How to access Gmail through Apple Mail" and it appears to have no bearing to the current Apple Mail 2.1.1.
There is no "automatically set up account" choice and the look of the top banner is white with stripes and not the blue/grey like iTunes. SInce your post is dated "Monday, 1st October 2007, 11:10 pm", how can that be?
Thanks