hey guys! Hogan here and I just wanted to make a super quick video to
show you how to create an email in Hostgator and then connect it to your
gmail account so you can manage everything in one place and also send
the emails via your gmail account alright so we're going to jump straight
into it now what you want to do is you want to log in to your cPanel area and
that is generally a link that Hostgator will have sent you earlier when you've
signed up for the service alright so log in to your cPanel area
and what you want to do is look for email accounts right so sometimes the
sort of interface might change but there should be email account somewhere right
so just find the email account and click onto it okay so here you want to set in
your email name so this could be like hello sales info or maybe like a
specific person's name so let's just say I wanted to create Hogan alright and
then here you can click on the drop-down to select your domain right so if you've
only got one domain then it should only show one for your password so just put
in your password here alright so you set this in yourself okay so make sure you
remember the password and then what you want to do is you want to set in an
email quota so I recommend maybe 1000 megabytes or
even go unlimited it depends on how much storage your Hostgator account actually
has so let's just click on create account right so once you've actually
created that account then what you need to do is you need to log in to your
gmail account okay so log in to your gmail account and what you want to do is
navigate to the gear icon settings and then click on settings again and then
you want to click on accounts and import ok so click on that tab and scroll down
to check email from other accounts so essentially what it's going to do it's
going to log in to your email accounts in Hostgator and then it's going to pull
in all the emails and then populate it into your inbox alright so click on add
email account ok so drag that in here and
then just put in your domain so for example my email is Hogan@shop
demo23.com all right and click on next and then click on next again here for
your username this is exactly the same as your email address so just copy the
top here and paste that in the password is the password that you just set before
right and your pop server is just your domain name
all right so shop demo23.com you'll want to be your name comm and the port
should be nine nine five right and then always uses SSL connection right and
label incoming messages as well and then click on Add Account
alright so that's going to take a few seconds to set up let's close that now
what we can do now is retrieve email from the account so what we want to do
is we want to be sending mail as our email here right so click on next so
here you can set in a specific name it's gonna keep it as my name there and click
on next alright so for the SMTP server this one is the domain name as well okay
so just shop demo 23 com username is my email password put that in and then for
the port here you want to select a four six five okay and then select SSL and
then add account alright so what it's gonna do is it's
going to confirm it needs you to confirm the verification so you need to check
your email so let's just close this for now
alright so scroll down here and what we could do is look for the email that we
just added in right and then we can click on check mail now so that's going
to force the server to pull in the email from this account
alright so normally it should say one mail fetched right and then if you go to
your inbox and then it should show up there alright so click onto that and
then you can click on the link here to confirm and confirm again and then you
are pretty much good to go so if we refresh the page then
what we could do is I'll show you how to send email ads so click on compose here
and then here on the drop-down you can select the email that you've just
created so you can send emails and then on your customers side or whatever
whoever you're sending that email to it will show this email there ok so you can
also set it as a default so you can go back to the settings over here and just
go to accounts and imports ok so here you can set the default as well right so
let's just say for example you want to always be seen sending email as here you
can make the default here alright so another thing if you're creating an
e-commerce website using WooCommerce and WordPress then what you want to do and
you want to make sure is you want to go to here we commerce settings and then
you want to click on the emails tab and then you want to scroll down and you
want to make sure that from the from address you've set it into and
professional email so rather than a generic gmail account otherwise it might
send a warning message to your customers and that's not very trustworthy and it
doesn't look good so that's pretty much it for this video hopefully you have
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