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About Google Mail Fetcher

Google Mail Fetcher is easy to set up and free to use. It uses POP3 to pull all the contents of an email box into Gmail and then parses the emails for spam. Mail Fetcher can download messages from up to five other email accounts, allowing you to centralize all your email in Gmail.

Once Mail Fetcher is set up, Google will check those accounts on a regular basis, and new mail will appear automatically in Gmail.

How to Set Up Google Mail Fetcher

 To set up Google Mail Fetcher for an iam-afghanistan.org email account:

1. Log into your Gmail account.
2. Click the gear icon in the upper right corner of the page and select Settings.
3. Click the Accounts tab and locate the Check mail from other accounts (using POP3) section.
4. Click Add a POP3 mail account you own.
5. Enter the full email address of the account from which you’d like mail fetched. eg. myemail@iam-afghanistan.org
6. Click Next Step.
7. In the Password field, enter the password for the email address you provided.
8. For a secure email connection, usePort 995.
9. Unclick the checkboxes next to :
   • Leave a copy of retrieved messages on the server
10. Click the checkboxes next to :
    • Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail
11. Choose whether to click or unclick the checkboxes next to  (if unsure it is probably best to click):
    • Label incoming messages
    • Archive incoming messages
12. Click Add Account.

After successfully adding your account, you’ll also have the option of making the added account a custom From address. This will allow you to compose messages in Gmail but have them appear to be sent from your iam-afghanistan.org email account – you should definitely do this.  You will then have the choice when you are writing a message whether to send it from your personal email account or your IAM email account.