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Go to Settings, then Mail, Contacts, Calendars Select the Add Account option.

Post author By Wayne Post date March 1, 2013 166 Comments on How to set up Apple mail to work with a Gmail account.

This is the original article from 2013) Despite their differences, Apple and Google do work well together when it comes to email.

Apple mail is very nice to use and you can set it to use a Gmail account.

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Heres how to use Gmail from Apples mail app and also how to set up Gmail on your iPhone or iPad.

There is a newer article about this topic here (2018) but I have kept this older article (2013) for those who have an older version of OS X or an older version of Apple Mail.

If you already have a Google Gmail account you can skip this step but you will need to know your email-addressgmail.com and its password) Go to gmail.com and click on Sign Up Fill in the details youll need to pick a gmail email address (somethinguniquegmail.com) and a password.

Write them down) When you have finished you should get a verification page that says this at the bottom: Now its time to set up the Apple mail application on your computer.

Enter your Gmail details into Apple mail on your iMac, Mac Mini or Macbook.

Open Apple mail, and go to the Mail menubar at the top of the screen and then select Preferences from the menu.

You will be prompted for some details: Where it says full name enter your name, this is not important but it will appear in the from field and can be anything.

Where it says email address put in your Gmail email address from step 1 above including the gmail.com at the end.

Where it says password enter your Gmail password from step 1 above.

It will then verify that the email address and password are correct and then display a confirmation screen.

It should say that the Account type is Gmail IMAP as follows: Press Create You will be taken back to the Apple Mail preferences screen.

There are some settings you should change here.

Click on the mailbox behaviours tab You pretty much need to set them to the opposite of the Apple default.

Every few minutes Apple mail makes a backup copy of your email as you are typing it.

If you select this option all these draft emails get stored in your gmail Drafts folder and you end up with lots of clutter You dont want to tick Sent because Gmail automatically keeps a copy of your sent messages and puts them in its send mail folder so Apple mail does not need to.

You only need this option checked if your email provider doesnt keep a copy of your sent emails automatically.

If checked it will save all your deleted items to a trash folder incase you want to undo the delete.

Gmail automatically keeps a copy of every email that you delete so you dont need to do this.

You want the junk option ticked because Gmail automatically takes care of junk mail you dont want the Apple mail program deleting it.

Thats it. You can close the preferences window.

Click save if it prompts you to save the new settings).

There should be some welcome messages from Gmail waiting for you in your Apple mail.

EXPLANATION OF GMAIL FOLDERS On the left-hand side of your mail app there should be a little folder called Gmail that looks like this: The All Mail folder contains every mail you have sent or received and even the emails you have deleted.

This is where you go if you want to find an old email that you have deleted.

The drafts folder will be empty all the time because you are not storing your draft emails on the gmail server.

All your deleted emails are kept in the All Mail folder you dont need another copy in the trash.

You can repeat all these instructions to add more accounts to your Apple mail.

If you want to set up your Gmail account on an iPhone or iPad read on.

Enter your Gmail details into your iPhone or iPad.

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