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How to connect email host account to Gmail

When you buy a domain, you can hosting also get an email address from the website services, but usually these emails are not organized and it is difficult to manage them. In this way, you will not be able to easily receive and manage the requests and emails of your site users. Therefore, most experts recommend that you connect your email host to your Gmail.

you how to connect email hosts to your Gmail in two platforms, DirectAdmin and Cpanel. In this context , we teach

How to connect email host account to Gmail in DirectAdmin

section by entering your hosting service At first, we need to enter the DirectAdmin and click on the “E-mail Accounts” option in the E-mail Manager section.

Connect email host to Gmail in Direct Admin,

In this section, you should find your email host that you want to connect to Gmail. But if you don’t have an email host, first select the “CREATE ACCOUNT” option.

Creating a direct admin email in Gmail

Now, in this section, it is enough to enter the name and password of the email you want to create and select the “CREATE ACCOUNT” option.

Creating an email account for Gmail

If your email address is created correctly, you will receive a confirmation message as shown below.

Email creation confirmation message in Direct Admin

Now that your e-mail host has been created, just select the (+) sign next to the e-mail host and click on the “Download Outlook Configuration” option.

Download Outlook configuration

In fact, this downloaded file contains the information needed to connect your e-mail host account to your Gmail.

Now it’s time to enter your Gmail and select the setting icon and then click on the “see all settings” option in the opened submenu.

Settings section in Gmail user account

 

On the opened page, enter the “accounts and import” section through the menu at the top of the page.

The accounts and import section in Gmail

On this page, in front of the check mail from other accounts section, click on the “add a mail account” option.

check mail from other accounts in Gmail account

Now another page will open for you where you have to enter your email address and click on the Next button.

Connecting email hosts to Gmail

In this step, the “import emails from my other account pop3” option is automatically selected, so just click on the next button to go to the next step.

import emails from my other account pop3

On this new page, you will be asked important questions that you must answer carefully and according to the file you downloaded earlier.

Details of creating an account in Gmail to connect to the host

These parts include the following concepts:

Username : inside the file and in front of the username section, like the desired email address and paste it into this section. copy the phrase that is

Password : In this section, you must enter the password of your email host.

Pop server : In the file and in front of the incoming server section, copy this value completely and paste it inside this section.

Port : Find this value inside the file and from the incoming server section in front of the pop3 port section and select the desired port number in the drop-down menu.

leave a copy of retrieved message on the server : choosing or not choosing in this section varies according to your preferences; In fact, by choosing this option, a copy of the sent and received emails is always saved on the website host, and otherwise, the emails sent and received from this account are only exchanged by Gmail and no copy of them is stored on the server. And the host is not saved.

always use a secure ssl connection when retrieving mail : activating this option means sending and receiving emails are exchanged in a secure ssl platform between Gmail and mail servers.

label incoming messages : by activating this option, all incoming emails except inbox, smap or trash will be listed for you in another dedicated section on the left side of the Gmail panel and will be separated from the incoming emails of our main Gmail account.

archive incoming messages skip the inbox : By activating this option, the incoming emails of our email host will be saved in the Gmail inbox, in addition to the dedicated folder of the previous section.

Now, to finalize the settings and go to the next step, click on the add account button.

Apply the final settings of the Gmail account

At this stage, you have to wait for a confirmation message from Gmail to add your email account and finally you have succeeded.

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How to connect email host account to Gmail in Cpanel

The steps to connect email hosts to Gmail in Cpanel are not much different from DirectAdmin. In Cpanel, you must enter the email accounts section and click on the CONNECT DEVICES option in front of the desired email host to enter the Set Up Mail Client for page.

In this section, you will see two blue and red boxes that contain important information for filling out the form in your Gmail. So, at this stage, it is enough to log in to Gmail and apply the settings mentioned above