Gmail / Use of a third-party email client

Objective

• To provide information to a user who wants to retrieve Miami email (Gmail) messages in another email client

Environment

• 10262: Google Mail (email e-mail)
  • Miami Email
• Microsoft Outlook
• Mac Mail
• Thunderbird

Resolution

• Miami University IT Services recommends using the Gmail web service in your browser to check your Miami email
• Refer to Google Gmail Help documentation, if you choose to use an alternative mail client: Use IMAP to check Gmail on other mail clients - Gmail Help

Notes

• Miami University IT Services does not fully support the use of any third party apps. Using third party apps may increase errors and reduce functionality, alert notifications, and email retrieval speed
   
• Miami email is powered by Google
• Google provides up-to-date end-user support documentation for Google's Gmail web service
  • Browse Google's Gmail Help site for everything you want to know about using this popular web service
  • Check the Google Status Dashboard for the current performance status of this service