Gmail Configuration in Evolution Mail Client
It’s a well-known fact that the users who have multiple email accounts (for example, on Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo and etc.) tend to use mail clients in order to save time and make email handling much easier and more comfortable. If you are a current or former Windows user, most likely you know about or even use/used Outlook, The Bat! or Eudora. With no exaggeration all of them are very nice and useful applications; however there is no need to worry about “loosing” them because Linux, and Ubuntu in particular, provides very decent alternative – Evolution Mail Client.
In fact Evolution represents a very functional application which in addition to mail integrates calendar, address book, to-do list, memo tools and etc. One of the nice things about this software consists in the fact that it’s a part of GNOME desktop environment, thus there is no need to install it.
Taking into account that Gmail configuration has some distinctive features, we decided to review it in detail to help you avoid different problems, which may appear.
Configuration of Gmail using POP3
Here are the steps to follow:
1) Open the browser, login to your Gmail account and click “Settings”:
2) Choose “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” panel, make sure that POP is enabled and choose “keep Gmail’s copy in the Inbox” option (2nd point of POP Download section):
3) Click on the Evolution icon (upper panel) or go to: Applications > Internet > Evolution Mail:
4) Click “Forward” button on the Welcome window:
5) Due to the fact that we configure mail for the first time, skip this option and click “Forward”:
6) Write your name, email address and Reply-to:
7) Choose “POP” from the drop-down menu, write everything as you see on the screenshot, of course, you have to type your email address (Username field):
8 ) Check “Leave messages on server” and change the update interval (“Check for new messages every … minutes”), by default it’s 10 minutes: