Setting up gmail for domain name address

Factual Questions
1

I just bought a domain name for my new business, and I’m trying to set up my Gmail to send and receive emails from the domain name address. My phone, God bless it, did it completely automatically, and now has a separate folder and an option to “Send from” the new address, but my desktop version is proving to be a bit more difficult.

I’ve tried different POP settings (server, port, etc.) but nothing seems to work. The new website is through GoDaddy, if it matters. I tried calling their support line but they said it has to be on Gmail’s side, which makes sense but also makes it more difficult.

Anybody set up something similar?

2

Are you using gmail from within your web browser? I have mine set up this way. Look for:

Settings --> Accounts and Import --> Send mail as

You can add alternative addresses, set one as default, and set reply behavior (use the address sender used, or always use your default). This also adds the option to select which address you use when composing a message.

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I did see that, but then it prompts me for the SMTP Server and Port Number, as well as a username and password. Any idea what those settings are supposed to be? Is the username and password the ones I’m using for the GoDaddy website? No combination of anything seems to be working.

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Those should reflect GoDaddy account info.

From the GoDaddy web pages, it looks like the port with SSL enabled is the usual 465. But it also looks like they restrict the number of messages relayed through their SMTP servers per account per day, so you may need to log in to see what server to use. (I don’t see anything public that suggests an obvious name like smtp.mydomain.com. It could be that you get some virtual server assigned and named specifically for you.) What SMTP server did you specify on your phone?

If you make a Google account with your me@mydomain.com address, you can maybe use gmail’s own SMTP server rather than GoDaddy’s: smtp.gmail.com:465, account = this new Google account’s credentials.

5

First make sure you understand what you even have.
You buy a domain from Godaddy, you have only a domain.
That lets you ultimately setup email using that domain, but just buying the domain DOES NOT do that. You have to purchase email from a provider and set up your DNS records to point to that provider. You can do that all via Godaddy.com and they make it relatively easy, but that is a separate service you have to set up and pay for usually. If you use Godaddy as your service you should be logging in to their own webmail via the desktop.

Now you don’t have to use Godaddy as your email provider at all - you can pay google via “GSuite” to do it for you as well, but that is something different.

6

It sounds like your email is provided by GoDaddy.

You have to set up Gmail to send/receive from an external account. Follow the instructions here:
http://frontdoorpr.com/2015/01/13/how-to-send-and-receive-godaddy-email-from-gmail/

If you’re willing to pay $5/mo, you can also get a real Gmail account for your domain:

7

No, I also bought the email address through GoDaddy (it’s info@allearspromos.com). But I’m trying to check it through Gmail, because I don’t like Outlook and it would be nice to have everything in one place.

I can turn on forwarding through GoDaddy and it works just fine, but then there’s no way to respond using the info email address and not my gmail account, unless I use my phone, which set itself up somehow (I didn’t specify an SMTP server or anything else… it was just suddenly there!). And now there are emails on my phone that aren’t on my desktop.

Thanks for everyone’s help so far!

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It’s possible your phone is using gmail’s SMTP server and your Gmail credentials to send messages with “From: info@…” specified in the header. If you want to PM me a copy/paste of the full headers from a successfully sent email from your phone, it should be easy to tell.

Otherwise, you need to ask GoDaddy (or log in and poke around your account) what SMTP server you are meant to use, or try using a non-GoDaddy SMTP server such as Gmail’s with a Google account linked to your info@… address.

9

If you’re going to be using multiple devices, you ideally want to set it up as an IMAP account. Ask GoDaddy for the IMAP settings and put them into Gmail.

10

More likely on his phone he is using the Gmail app and using POP or IMAP to access his godaddy account and it just looked up the SMTP and IMAP servers automatically (maybe trying several before finding the right one). In later versions of Android the separate email app was removed and “Gmail” is basically the android version of outlook now.

You should be able to find the server settings you need by logging in to Godaddy, they must differ between accounts, see here:

https://www.godaddy.com/help/imap-set-up-email-4714

11

Sorry for the delay; busy day today. I’d like to try this; what exactly do you need me to do? I sent an email to myself from my phone, making sure it was from the info@… address. How do I make sure I’m viewing the full headers? Thanks!

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No one uses POP any more. It’s so 20th century. Use IMAP instead.

The main difference is that POP assumes your email resides on your local system and downloads your emails there. By default POP deletes emails that are downloaded locally (although this can be changed). If you use multiple platforms, you’re going to run into trouble with emails not being sync’d between the various systems.

IMAP assumes that your server stores all emails including sent mails. They may be locally cached on your system, but the server state is what’s real.

POP was popular (no pun intended. Honest) when email servers had tiny amounts of space. I remember having to download emails on a daily basis over a 2400bps modem and taking 30 to 40 minutes to download all of my messages. If I didn’t, my server email box would be full. However, Gmail changed all of that with offers of an unbelievable 5Gb or space. This was back in the days when people lusted over Zip drives and their 100Mb capacity. 5Gb of space was 50 times that amount.

When you get a domain with GoDaddy, you get 100 email forwards. This allows someone to email you at your domain, but you get the email in your Gmail box. This takes care of the sending issue. People will send you email to your domain address.

The problem is receiving emails. You need to setup Gmail to allow you to Send as a different email address. Fortunately, Gmail allows you to do this.

Now, you can use the Gmail website to do all of your mailings. If you want to use the local mail client, you’ll need to do a few things. You want to make sure Gmail is set to use IMAP and not POP.

Fortunately, Gmail offers [url=https://support.google.com/mail/answer/78892?hl=en]directions on how to setup Gmail to use your local mail client on various platforms.

I do this all of the time. I use Zoho as my email provider (Similar to Google’s Gmail. I try my best to stay away from Google because they already know way too much about me), setup my Godaddy email forwardings, and use both my iPhone and Mac’s Mail client (and for some reason, I’m not scared that Apple knows way too much about me).

There are only a few occasions where things go wacky and my mail bounces because the recipient’s email provider thinks I’m Spam. There’s suppose to be a fix on Zoho, but I haven’t spent the time needed to figure it out.