Gmail Smtp Settings

 What are the SMTP settings of Gmail? That’s an easy question.

Gmail is a fantastic webmail application, but some people find it handier to access their own inbox from an email client like Thunderbird or Outlook: to do that it’s necessary to configure its outgoing server by entering the right settings.

First, open the mail software’s configuration panel:

and fill the fields with the Gmail SMTP server settings, which are:

or Gmail SMTP server name: smtp.gmail.com

o Gmail SMTP username: your Gmail address

o Gmail SMTP password: your password

o Gmail SMTP port: 465

Then you can choose your security and authentication options: for further information please check our article about SMTP configuration. (And of course you can use also Gmail’s POP details to receive emails).

Remember however that Gmail’s SMTP comes with severe sending limits in order to prevent spammers from using its outgoing server to blast out garbage emails. The boundary is 100 recipients a time and 500 messages per day: if you cross this restriction, Google will block your account.

Plus, its SMTP server relies on shared IPs that cannot guarantee you a full deliverability, as they be used also by spammers who harm seriously their reputation, thus increasing the chance that also your legitimate email will be filtered out by antispam systems.

So if you're setting up an email campaign or need to send unlimited emails, the best thing to do is to choose a professional SMTP server: for a very reasonable price you will be able to mail out to a large lists keeping with the certainty of the highest delivery rate.

Moreover, whether it is personal or business messages, using turbo SMTP you can always check in real time if emails have been actually delivered, opened and if recipient has clicked one of the links inside.

Gmail SMTP Settings

To receive or send emails from Gmail using any email software or client on a desktop or mobile phone, we must add the Gmail server settings. This server configuration will allow the email client to interact with the Gmail server to perform actions.

To receive emails from Gmail, we can use the IMAP or POP3 server settings. I would recommend using IMAP settings instead of POP3, as it is more secure and leave a copy of email in Gmail.

IMAP configuration for the Gmail server:

1. Type of account: IMAP

2. Incoming mail server: imap.gmail.com

3. Port number: 993

4. Connection type: SSL

POP3 server configuration for Gmail:

1. Type of account: POP

2. Incoming mail server: pop.gmail.com

3. Port number: 995

4. Connection type: SSL

Gmail SMTP server configuration:

1. Type of account: SMTP

2. Outgoing mail server: smtp.gmail.com

3. Port number: 587

4. Connection type: TLS

If you are configuring Gmail for Microsoft Outlook 2013, the configuration should be similar to the following screenshot.

1. Name of the IMAP and SMTP server:

2. IMAP and STMP port number and connection type:

Read the details about the Microsoft Outlook software configuration for Gmail.

Gmail SMTP Settings

It is a good alternative compared to the PHP mail function. You can use this type of SMTP service to receive customer inquiries through the contact form of your application, password reset emails, order confirmation, etc. However, this has a limit to send emails, that is, 500 emails per day or 500 recipients in a single email per day.

Therefore, if you want to send transactional and marketing emails (in volumes), we recommend that you set up a third-party email delivery service, such as the Elastic Email (paid) add-on.

Step 1: allow access to Google account

Before using Gmail SMTP, you must authorize your server to access your Google account.

Click here, log in to your Gmail account, then click Continue.

Note: You must use your main Google account to achieve this purpose. If you have merged google accounts, you will receive an authentication error.

This will enable access to your account for your new device (web server).

Step 2: Generate the application password if two-step verification is enabled

If you have enabled two-step verification in your Google account, you must generate an application-specific password. If you are not using two-step verification, you can skip this step and go to Step 3.

Select Other / Custom Name in Select Application, name it as "DO - Production Server" and then click Generate.

Write down the application password, as it will be necessary in the next step.

Now, open the link again and click Continue.

Step 3: Configure Gmail in the SMTP plug-in

Enter the details of Gmail inside the SMTP plug-in (to activate the SMTP plug-in).

1. Select Other / Custom SMTP from the drop-down menu

2. Enter smtp.gmail.com as your host

3. Use port 587

4. Enter your Gmail login username your.username@gmail.com

5. Enter your Gmail password OR application password (if two-step verification is enabled)

Click Save to finish the configuration on the server.

That's. Your Gmail email service has been configured on your server for outgoing transactional emails.

Step 4: test the SMTP functionality

Once the settings are updated, you can test them by sending mail through SSH.

Once you are logged in through ssh, use the following command to send mail for testing:

1 email -s "subject" email@domain.com

Type your content and press enter

Use ctrl + d to send the mail.

You can find out if it is successful or not by checking if you received the email. If the email is not delivered, you can use the mailq command to check for errors.

If the mail queue is empty, the mail is sent successfully from your server.