How to set up your email in Gmail for mobile/tablets
This guide takes you step-by-step through the process of setting up a new email account in Gmail on your cell phone or tablet.
To set up your email on a laptop or computer, see How to set up your domain email in Gmail
Replace example.com with your domain name.
Add your mail account
- Open Gmail on your mobile device. If this is your first mail account to be setup, skip to step 4
- Tap the profile pic at the top right of the screen
- Tap Add another account
- On the Add Account screen, select Other at the bottom
- Type in the email address that you want set up and then tap Next
- Gmail will now try to connect
- Incoming mail server
- User name: the full email address
- Password: your mail account password
- IMAP server: mail. followed by your domain name e.g. mail.example.com*
- Port: 993
- Security type: SSL/TLS
- Tap Next at the top right of your screen
- Outgoing server settings
- User name: the full email address
- Password: your mail account password – the same as step 7
- SMTP server: smtp. followed by your domain name e.g. smtp.example.com
- Port: 465
- Security type: SSL/TLS
- Tap Next
- The account settings will be tested and you will then receive a success message.
- Add you name as you would like it to appear on your sent mail

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