How do I find my SMTP username and password for Gmail?

What is SMTP username and password?

If you have a business or a personal mail account with an Internet provider, you might be asked to provide a username and a password.

If you've been asked to do so in the past, you're probably wondering what these things are. SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transport Protocol and it's used by email programs like Microsoft Outlook, Apple Mail, Gmail and others to send emails. The username and the password are two of the four credentials that you'll need to enter when you try to send an email from your email program.

You'll need to enter the username and the password at the email program's SMTP server. This server is part of the email program, and it's how the program communicates with the SMTP server of the Internet service provider. Once the SMTP server accepts your credentials, it sends an email to the Internet service provider's SMTP server. This server will then forward the email to your email program.

How do I get the username and the password? Most email programs will allow you to look up your username and the password for the SMTP server of the Internet service provider. In the Outlook email program, for example, you can go to Settings, click Account Settings and then E-mail Accounts.

You'll see a list of your email accounts and the SMTP servers of the Internet service providers that they use. You can use the buttons on the top of the window to view details about each email account. The button Change Account Settings will open a new window that lists all the settings for the email account.

You can use the Change Settings button on the General tab to access the settings for each SMTP server. The settings will be listed under the Server Settings tab.

Outlook offers a list of the email programs that it supports. You can use the Manage Connections button on the Account Settings page to see this list. Outlook also provides a link to the help page for each email program that it supports.

What's the difference between the username and the password? Both the username and the password are needed to send an email.

What is the SMTP code for Gmail?

Google uses a completely different system for the "Gmail" part of its email than for all of their other domains, so it's not directly available.

They have the same email address you use, and it's the same system that runs their other domains like @googlemail. If you know what your account ID is, you can search this document.

The Gmail part of Google's email system has a code of 535. 535 is the return code that refers to the message 535-envelope-temporary-error.

Here's a search of all of the messages returned by Gmail, and you'll see that the response code is 535 for the email messages you send when you send from Google Apps.

What is the SMTP host for my Gmail account?

When I'm trying to access my email, I keep on having to enter my username and password and finally go into web access.

You'll likely have to provide more than just a single host name. The hostname you use can either be resolved using IP address (preferred method), Fully qualified domain name (as in when used with a proper certificate) or Fully qualified domain name with port number (most people only use IP address with these).

However that requires some of your credentials in the format gmail.com, or .org, etc., with a valid TLS cert set up, which is likely what you're using the SSL command for in the first place.

I did the same thing about 15 years ago, but then a new email address came along and the old one stopped working so I had to start fresh. This was a very bad move and all email ended up going to spam.

I think that you need to set up another mail account to send email and move everything over there. That might prove to be a lot of work depending on how many things you want to sync at the moment, but you could do it all pretty fast by hand if necessary.

I've never moved anything I've written to GSuite, but there's no reason why it couldn't be done for other mailboxes. GSuite has pretty much unlimited storage now so it shouldn't be an issue.

I was actually thinking about doing this because my company's emails are all stored on our corporate Exchange accounts and are not currently synced to any of my phone or browser accounts. Is it possible to keep Gmail & all my other mail services like Fastmail / Outlook and get them all in one place? If yes, how? Thanks. I also have Gmail and GSuite and I believe they both allow two way sync with multiple accounts at this time. To begin with, you need to set up 2-way sync between your mobile devices and Google suite (as I wrote in one of my messages in this thread), and add/subtract accounts until you have the right combination. But in the end, it will take only Google suite accounts to create such a task. It's much easier for you to keep an active Gmail account, and to add email accounts later if you have any reasons for it.

Thanks so much!

How do I find my SMTP username and password for Gmail?

I have a Windows Server 2025 box that's setup for email, and I can send email to my gmail address from it, but I can't figure out what my username and password are.

I can't find them anywhere on Google.

You're probably looking for the gmail.com SMTP server login information. If you use the GMail web mail interface to sign in to your account you'll see the username and password there.

If you're running Exchange 2025 or later then your organization's domain admin will have access to those settings.