How to access an external email from Gmail using POP3

In this article we will see how to configure POP Gmail. For those who travel a lot or need to access email from different computers, using the Microsoft Outlook client is really awkward; Although for institutional purposes it is almost inevitable, after knowing Gmail it feels like a cave to use an Outlook that has made little progress in terms of search and backup functionalities from the cloud.

This time I want to show how you can use Gmail to access an external email account, we will use Webmail as an example, which is one of the most common offered by hosting services. The first time I did it I was somewhat confused and never knew how I did it, the second time it cost me almost the same learning, so I decided to take this to an article that would remind me a third time and that incidentally serve others.

Data for the exercise

Domain:   Mydomain.com

Mail account:  info@midominio.com

Create account

This, in the case of Cpanel, does not take much more than define the name, password and storage quota.

To access this created account is not required to have access to Cpanel, but through the address

http://webmail.Mydomain.com/

Here you can choose an option in the entry, where you can see the configuration of incoming and outgoing servers and ports.

There are also a few shortcuts to configure a log file for Outlook. In case of using another email that is not in Wbmail, there is always a link there that shows us these configuration data. Although POP3 is just a protocol, Webmail supports POP3S (SSL / TLS), IMAP, IMAPS (SSL / TLS) as incoming mail and SMTP, SMTPS (SSL / TLS) as outgoing mail.

Request access from Gmail

Once the account is created, in gmail We request access to this account:

Settings> Accounts and import> Add a POP3 email account

The next panel adds the address that interests us, in this case info@midominio.com

This causes the system to send a notification to that email, to authorize external access. Then you have to enter the key that has been sent to the mail to verify the property.

Set up gmail pop mail

Although there is a simplified access option via Gmail, the disadvantage it has is that it will always show that it was sent via Gmail. Hence the need to do it this way.

In the panel that appears, we must enter the data:

• User:  info@midominio.com
• Incoming mail server:  Mail.mydomain.com
• Outgoing mail server:  Mail.mydomain.com
• 110 port, Should not give problems.
• Password of the mail.

You also have to specify if we want you to save a copy in Webmail (recommended) and with which label we want these emails to arrive in Gmail.

This way, we can send and receive from this account using Gmail.