{"id":8200,"date":"2022-11-30T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T01:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=8200"},"modified":"2022-12-02T12:36:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T04:36:13","password":"","slug":"setup-smtp-settings-for-gmail-android","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/help\/setup-smtp-settings-for-gmail-android\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Setup SMTP Settings for Gmail on Android Mobile (Existing Account)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you&#8217;re a webmail user, you probably have your hosted email accounts linked to one or more of your devices. These days, most people use Gmail as their primary email service and many businesses do so as well. Setting up a hosted email account on your mobile device could be tricky, considering that it&#8217;s a must have when you are always on the go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Worry not. In this article, we will take a look at how to arrange SMTP settings for Gmail on Android mobile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On your Android device, go to the Gmail app.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8203\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/12\/open-gmail-app.png\" alt=\"open gmail app\" width=\"268\" height=\"188\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click on the three lines at the top left corner of the app, and go to <\/span><b>Settings<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8204\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/12\/open-gmail-settings.png\" alt=\"open gmail settings\" width=\"240\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>3. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Select the email account you need to add SMTP settings on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/12\/gmail-settings-select-email-account.png\" alt=\"gmail settings select email account\" width=\"436\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/12\/gmail-settings-select-email-account.png 436w, https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/12\/gmail-settings-select-email-account-300x130.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>4. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click on \u201cOutgoing Settings\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8201\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/12\/gmail-server-settings.png\" alt=\"gmail server settings\" width=\"448\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/12\/gmail-server-settings.png 448w, https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/12\/gmail-server-settings-300x102.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>5. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enter the details of your email account. The radio button for <i>Require signin<\/i> must be ticked to the right (see below).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8205\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/12\/set-up-smtp-settings-for-gmail.png\" alt=\"set up smtp settings for gmail\" width=\"273\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/12\/set-up-smtp-settings-for-gmail.png 273w, https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/12\/set-up-smtp-settings-for-gmail-190x300.png 190w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>6. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To make sure your email account is linked properly to your CLDY hosted domain, make sure these settings are in place:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SMTP server: mail.<\/span><b>yourdomainhere.com<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(replace <\/span><b>yourdomainhere.com<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with your own domain)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Username: [email address]<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Password: [email address password]<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Port: 465<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Security type: SSL\/TLS<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a webmail user, you probably have your hosted email accounts linked to one or more of your devices. These days, most people use Gmail as their primary email service and many businesses do so as well. Setting up a hosted email account on your mobile device could be tricky, considering that it&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[32],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-8200","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-email-hosting"],"year_month":"2026-06","word_count":198,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"syd123","author_nicename":"syd123","author_url":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/author\/syd123\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Email Hosting","term_url":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/help-category\/email-hosting\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/8200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/8200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8207,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/8200\/revisions\/8207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=8200"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=8200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}