How to setup Free Google SMTP

The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is a communication protocol for email transmission. There are many SMTP providers but we are discussing about free and reliable Google SMTP server. In this article, we will show you how to setup free Google SMTP. so, that you can send emails using your Gmail.

This will not only useful to send emails from your website but also if you want to use email client like Thunderbird or Outlook for your Gmail account.

In this article, we will describe all the requirements and provide the settings that you need to setup free Google SMTP and also let you know the common mistakes happens while setting Gmail SMTP.

Gmail SMTP setup credentials:

Server address: smtp.gmail.com
Username: Your Gmail address
Password: Your Gmail password/ Gmail App Password
Gmail SMTP port (TLS/SSL): 587/465

Kindly note that you can use Gmail username and Gmail password if your are using SMTP for email client but if you are setting up SMTP server to send email from your website or from an application you need to create an app password. We will describe this in details below.

How to Use Google SMTP Server?

In this section, we will show you how to send emails using Google’s SMTP server you can use send email from custom domain too using this tutorial. The SMTP credentials will be same as above but keep in mind that we need to use app password in password field and 2SV must be enabled in your Google account.

If you are using custom domain than you can only send emails if you are using app password, app password will provide permission to your custom domain to access your Google account.