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How to Find the Current Gmail Email Settings

There are many reasons why you might need to find the current Gmail email settings:

adding your Gmail email address to your mail client (e.g. Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail…)
migrating emails from Gmail to another provider
transferring existing emails to your new Gmail account

For any of these scenarios to succeed, you need to add the current email settings (IMAP, SMTP or POP3). Below, you'll find the current Gmail email settings:

Hassle-Free Gmail Email Setup: Discover the Gmail Email Settings for IMAP

If you want to set up your Gmail email account on any email client without hassle, you'll need to have Gmail's IMAP and SMTP settings at your fingertips. Take a look at the table below to find the required Gmail email settings.

Gmail Email Settings: IMAP Settings

Use the provided Gmail email settings for IMAP (recommended) in order to set up your email account. Refer to the table below for the server settings for incoming emails.

IMAP Server	imap.gmail.com
IMAP Port	993
IMAP Security	SSL/TLS \| Authentication via OAuth2
Requires Authentication	✅
Username	username@gmail.com or username@your-domain.com
Password	Your Gmail password

Gmail Email Settings: Outgoing Emails via SMTP

To be able to also send emails via your Gmail address, you need to add the following Gmail email settings in your email client for outgoing emails:

SMTP Server	smtp.gmail.com
SMTP Port	587
SMTP Security	SSL
Username	username@gmail.com or username@your-domain.com
Password	Your Gmail password

Gmail POP3 Email Settings

If you wish to use POP3 instead of IMAP to add your Gmail email account to your email client, use the following gmail email settings for POP3:

POP3 Server	pop.gmail.com
POP3 Port	995
POP3 Security	TLS
Username	username@gmail.com or username@your-domain.com
Password	Your Gmail password

When do I need to use POP3 instead of IMAP?

If you set up your Gmail email account using POP3, your emails will be downloaded from the server and stored on your device. This means that you can access your emails even when you're offline. Furthermore, you also save disk space and do not run out of storage capacity on your Gmail email account.

However, if you use multiple devices to access your Gmail email account, you'll only be able to access your emails on the device where you initially downloaded them. So if you wish to read your emails on multiple devices, IMAP is the better option.

Smooth Email Transfer: Gmail Email Migration Guide

Migrating your emails from Gmail or to Gmail is very easy. By utilizing a reliable migration tool such as MailJerry and providing your Gmail email account credentials, you can finish the email migration in a few minutes!

➡️ Download our free email migrator or conveniently start the email migration directly in your browser.
➡️ Open MailJerry and select "New Migration".
➡️ Select the account type and enter the email credentials for your current email account in the "Existing Address" fields.
➡️ For the "New Address" section, input the IMAP settings corresponding to your new email account (e.g., the Gmail IMAP settings).
➡️ Begin the migration by clicking on "Start Migration".

Wait for the email migration from or to Gmail to complete.
🎉 That's it! You can now access your old emails in your new email account!