Rather than use an email alias or forwarder of your email that sends email received at your personal email address to your GMail address, it is strongly recommended that you configure your GMail account to retrieve your emails directly via POP.

(For more information on why you should retrieve your email rather use a forwarder, please see the KB Article – Not Receiving Forwarded Emails.)

1.  Sign-in to your GMail account and go click on the Gear Icon in the upper-right corner and select SETTINGS from the menu.
2.  In the SETTINGS screen click on the “Accounts and Import” tab.
3.  Under “Check mail from other accounts (using POP3)” click on “Add a POP3 mail account you own“.

4.  Enter your email address and click on the [NEXT STEP] button.

5.  Enter your Email address, Username (full email address), and Password into their respective fields. For the POP Server enter SMARTERMAIL.SCARABMEDIA.COM and select Port 995. Check the box “Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail“. Optionally you may want to select any of the other options as desired.

6.  If you want to send email addressed as from your personal email account through GMail select “Yes, I want to be able to send mail as this address” and click on the [NEXT STEP] button. Otherwise choose “No” and [NEXT STEP] (at which point you are done).

7.  Enter your Name as you want it to appear in the FROM: field of emails you send, and enter your Email address. Click on the [NEXT STEP] button.

8. Enter the following information:

SMTP Server: smartermail.scarabmedia.com
Port: 587
Username: your full email address
Password: the password of your account
Secured connection using TLS: Yes

Click on the [ADD ACCOUNT] button when complete.

9.  You will receive a verification email from Google. Either click on the link contained in the verification email or enter the confirmation code and click on [VERIFY].

Congratulations! You can now send and receive your emails through your GMail account.

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