Configure your Google Email to use 3rd Party Apps

 

1. Enable IMAP or POP

Next, you should enable IMAP or POP. This gives you the ability to configure your mailbox in email clients such as Outlook, Mac Mail, and Thunderbird.

What is the difference between IMAP and POP?

IMAP and POP are both ways to read your Gmail messages in other email clients.

IMAP can be used across multiple devices. Emails are synced in real time.

POP can only be used for a single computer. Emails aren't synced in real time. Instead, they're downloaded and you decide how often you want to download new emails.

Enable IMAP

  1. On your computer, go to the website my.fit.edu.
  2. In the top right, click "Settings" Settings then "Settings".
  3. Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.
  4. In the "IMAP Access" section, select Enable IMAP.
  5. Click Save Changes.

You can find advanced configuration settings for IMAP here.

Enable POP

  1. On your computer, go to the website my.fit.edu.
  2. In the top right, click  Settings then "Settings".
  3. Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.
  4. In the "POP Download" section, select Enable POP for all mail or Enable POP for mail that arrives from now on.
  5. At the bottom of the page, click Save Changes.

You can find advanced configuration settings for POP here.

2. Allow "Less Secure" Applications

Finally, in order to be able to configure your email on certain applications Google has deemed "less secure," you need to enable that setting. This enables the ability to configure IMAP and POP on various applications.

To do this, go to the following website: https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps

You will notice the option is set to "OFF."

Click the switch to the right of "Allow less secure apps" to turn it "ON."

You can now configure your mailbox on other applications.

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