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.
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.
In this section, you should find the email host that you want to connect to Gmail. But if you don’t have an email host, first select the “CREATE ACCOUNT” option.
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.
If your email address is created correctly, you will receive a confirmation message as shown below.
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.
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.
On the opened page, enter the “accounts and import” section through the menu at the top of the page.
On this page, in front of the check mail from other accounts section, click on the “add a mail account” option.
Now another page will open for you where you have to enter your email address and click on the Next button.
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.
On this new page, you will be asked important questions that you must answer carefully and according to the file you downloaded earlier.
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 the 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 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.
At this stage, you have to wait for a confirmation message from Gmail to add your email account, and finally, you have succeeded.
How to connect email host account to Gmail in Cpanel
The steps to connect email hosts to Gmail in Cpanel are not very different from those in 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 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