Step 1: Add Your Zebra Cloud Email Address
- In the upper right-hand corner. You will see a
gear
icon. Click the icon and chooseSettings
»Accounts Imports
- Click
Add another email address
. This will open a pop-up window. - Enter your name and hosted email address.
- Deselect the
Treat as an alias box
, (for details click the Learn more Link) and ignore the Specifically a different “reply-to” address. - On the next screen, enter secure.emailsrvr.com for the SMTP Server and select Port 465
- For Username enter your full hosted email address.
- For Password enter the password ZebraHost has sent you.
- Finally, select the
Secure connection using SSL (recommended)
button and clickAdd Account
.
Gmail will now check to make sure the credentials you entered are correct and will send an email to verify your account. This may take some time. You can close this popup window.
Step 2: Test Your Ability to Send
Gmail has already tested your account settings, and if you followed the above instructions, you should be good to go, but just to be certain, you can return to your Gmail inbox and click the COMPOSE
button.
In the Dropdown menu marked form choose your hosted email address. Now fire off a test to your Gmail account. It should appear in your inbox.
Step 3: Make Your Email the Default Sender (Optional)
If you don’t plan to use your @gmail.com account for sending most emails, you can make it the default sending address.
- In the upper right-hand corner, you will see a
gear
icon. Click the icon and chooseSettings -> Accounts and Import
- In the row marked Send mail as: you will see both your @gmail.com email and your Zebra Cloud email address.
- Next to your Zebra Cloud email address click the
make default
link. The change will happen on the page and be made immediately.
Step 4: Set Gmail to Receive Your Rackspace Email
Next, we need to make sure your hosted emails will be received by Gmail.
In the upper right-hand corner, you will see a gear icon. Click the icon and choose
Settings -> Accounts and Import
in the row marked Check mail from other accounts: click theAdd a POP3 mail account you own
link. This will open a new window.In the new pop-up window, enter your full hosted email address (e.g. myname@mydomain.com) and move to the Next Step.
- Username: myname@mydomain.com
- Password: Your Zebra Cloud Email password
- POP Server: secure.emailsrvr.com
- Port: 995
Check the box marked
Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail
.Click the
Add Account
button.