Sep 23, 2011
Things you will need to know before starting this setup:
- Your email address
- Your user account name (usually, but not always, the part before the '@' in your email)
- Your user account password
- Sign into your Gmail account.
- Click on Settings (upper right corner of the screen).
- Click on Accounts and Import.
- Click Add POP3 email account (3rd section down).
- Enter your email address: [email protected] and click Next.
- Enter the following:
- Username: john.doe
- Password: [Password provided by IT dept]
- POP server: mail6.bayarea.net
- Port: 110
- Check ‘Leave a copy of retrieved message on the server.’
- Check ‘Label incoming messages: [email protected]’
- Select ‘Yes, I want to be able to send mail as [email protected].’ and click Next.
- Enter your name and click Next.
- Select the option ‘Send through synergycompanies.org SMTP servers’ and enter the following:
- SMTP Server: mail6.bayarea.net
- Port: 587
- Username: john.doe
- Password: [Password provided by IT dept]
- Gmail will send an email to your account with a confirmation number that you need to enter in to verify the setup.