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Preparing a Gmail Account for SMTP

Follow these instructions to prepare any Gmail accounts for SMTP

Lee | Outreachly avatar
Written by Lee | Outreachly
Updated over 8 months ago

Follow these steps to prepare your Gmail account for an SMTP connection with Outreachly.

Google Account Steps

  1. Go to https://mail.google.com/mail/#settings and click on the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab

  2. Enable POP for all mail

  3. Enable IMAP and select "Save Changes"

  4. Go to http://myaccount.google.com/security and turn on 2-step verification

  5. Click on the "App passwords". If this does not show use the search bar to search for "App Passwords"

  6. Select the app and device you want to generate the app password for: select app as "Mail"

  7. Select device as "Other" (note this step may not show in every instance)

  8. Type any name and generate the app password

  9. Copy the generated app password and use it while connecting Gmail integration as SMTP

Save your App Password

  1. You'll need your App Password to use as the password when adding your account via SMTP.

πŸš€ Success! Your Gmail account is ready to add to Outreachly via SMTP. The next steps are easy.

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