How to Configure Your Windows 8 Phone to Get Your Google Mail

I have several e-mail accounts hosted by Google, which is fortunate because it helped me solve this problem.  I had set up my organization’s email account, hosted on Google, using the settings I used in my Windows 7 phone.  Those settings looked like this, but did not work on my Windows 8 phone:

• User Name: admin@MyDomainName.org
• Server: m.google.com
• SSL: Checked (Yes)

But to get that to work on my Windows 8 Phone I had to switch the account to the IMAP settings.  To do this, delete your account settings on your Windows 8 Phone because you need to set them up in a way that allows you to choose IMAP4.  Create a new account with these settings:

• Account Name: really doesn’t matter
• Email address: admin@MyDomainName.org
• Incoming email server: imap.gmail.com:993:1
• User Name:   admin@MyDomainName.org
• Outgoing (SMTP) email server: smtp.gmail.com:465:1
• Outgoing server requires authentication: Checked (Yes)
• Use the same user name and password for sending email: Checked (Yes)
• Advanced settings:
• Require SSL for incoming email: Checked (Yes)
• Require SSL for outgoing email: Checked (Yes)

When you do this on your phone:

• Pick “add an account”
• Pick “other account (POP and IMAP)”
• Enter the Email address and Password and click Sign In.  It will fail.
• Click “try again”.  It will fail again, but then you will get an “advanced” button where you can enter the information above.

I do not have all of my google/gmail hosted accounts configured the same way on my phone.  My primary gmail account is set up simply using the “google” option and looks like this:

Simple Google Settings that work for me

Simple Google Settings that work for me

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the emails that needed the IMAP4 settings, my configuration looks like this:

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