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St Gabriel's Email FAQ/Help

This page contains answers to common questions and help relating to St Gabriel's email. It is intended that it will grow over time. If you can't find an answer to your question, or you have discovered something that may be of benefit to others, please mail me at david.vivian@st-gabriels.org and I will do my best to answer your question, and/or update this section.
  1. How do I set up my email client to access St Gabriel's email?
  2. I currently store all my St Gabriel's  emails in webmail, how do I import them into the new Google based webmail client?

How do I set up my email client to access St Gabriel's email?

You will probably need to enable POP access for your Google account before you can access your email via POP. To do this login to your Google account here, and do the following -

  1. Click Settings at the top of any page.
  2. Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.
  3. Enable POP.
  4. Click Save Changes.
Once you have enabled POP access, you need to set up your email client. The exact instructions vary from client to client, but the information that you need is -

POP Server: pop.gmail.com
Enable SSL: Yes
User Name: <username>@st-gabriels.org - e.g david.vivian@st-gabriels.org
Password: The password you use to login to you Google account
Email Address: <username>@st-gabriels.org - e.g david.vivian@st-gabriels.org

Email client specific instructions can be found here.

I currently store all my St Gabriel's emails in webmail, how do I import them into the new Google based webmail client?

Google provide two tools to help with importing existing emails into the Google based mail -

  1. Mail Fetcher. This tool will fetch existing emails using POP based access. Details can be found at https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=21288
  2. Email uploader. This tool will upload emails stored in Microsoft Outlook. Details can be found at http://mail.google.com/mail/help/email_uploader.html

If you need any assistance with importing emails into your Google account, please contact david.vivian@st-gabriels.org.


David Vivian, 05/04/2009