Set Up Gmail in Mail on Mac

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Video: Set Up Gmail in Mail on Mac

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You're watching VisiHow. In this tutorial, I'm going to set up Gmail in the Mail application on the Mac.

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   To start, open the Mail application

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   Choose Google, and click on "Continue"

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   Enter the email address and password and click "Sign in"

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   A text will be sent to our phone with a verification code.

   

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   Once we receive the code, we enter it and click "Verify"

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   Gmail will ask for some permissions.

   

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   Click "Accept"

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   Select the apps to use with the Gmail account and click "Done"

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   We can choose Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Messages and Notes.

   

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   We'll send ourselves a test email to make sure it's working

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   Click on "Get Mail"

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   It will update the inbox to show our emails. We do have a lot of emails in our inbox and this can slow down the Mac.

   

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   Another quick tip is to go into our Gmail account, click on the Settings gear and click on "Settings"

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    Click "Forwarding and POP/IMAP"

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    Go down to the bottom where it says "Folder Size Limits" and click "Limit IMAP folders to contain no more than this many messages (1,000)"

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    Click "Save Changes"

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    Once thing to consider when using the Mail application is that "Delete" will actually delete it from Google Mail as well

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    We can archive instead, which is "Command" and "A". Deleting it will delete the email forever.

    

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    This is how to set up Gmail on the Mac

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    If you have any questions or comments, please leave them in the space below. Thank you.

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