Comments on: Setting up Your Go Daddy IMAP or POP Email Address on Gmail

By: Thomas Trumble

Thomas Trumble — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:55:04 +0000

Let me make sure that I understood what you did.

Got your Godaddy domain
Set up Gmail to receive your Godaddy emails
Sent test emails to your Godaddy domain
Received no emails through Gmail

If that is correct then the first thing that you need to do is check all of the set up information and passwords to ensure that you input it correctly. Really check it, don't just assume that you did, really check. Consider reentering all of the passwords. With that all checked, next send an email from a third party account (not your Godaddy domain email nor your gmail email) to both of those accounts and then open each account to confirm that you received each of those emails in the respective accounts. If so then you know that each account is receiving email. If you don't get those emails then you know that you have an issue with your email setup for one of those accounts and you need to fix that. After that I am a bit at a loss. I'll need more information from you about an error or something to make it work.

By: Thomas Trumble

Thomas Trumble — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:44:58 +0000

Other people have commented on it taking awhile for email to begin coming through and I suspect that is the issue with you, I hope that you have gotten your email by now.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:43:25 +0000

I went through the process of setting up GoDaddy email on GMail. The checking email through POP3 is still “checking mail” after 40 minutes. Is it because there are many, many emails from the GoDaddy account to be transferred? any other reason?

By: SiliconHIRE

SiliconHIRE — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:39:20 +0000

I can send emails but havent received any except for 3 Gmail welcome emails. This is what I did.
Got the domain from Godaddy.
Activated email on Gmail, did verification as instructed using @ and the activation code link.
Checked gmail again. no emails from my test emails.
pls help

By: Thomas Trumble

Thomas Trumble — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:38:16 +0000

Glad that it worked out for you.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:03:45 +0000

Patience is a virtue which I obviously didn’t have with this work. The emails came through since I wrote the first coment. Thanks for the wonderful explanation.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:47:59 +0000

I did the steps in your setup and it wonderfully. One issue came up that I wondering about–the last 200 messages in my godaddy account are not there. In gmail setup it says that 200 messages were fetched……good–but they are not in my gmail either. Any suggestions?

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:00:34 +0000

Man, this is perfect! Thanks for putting this together.

For everyone receiving the “Your other email provider is responding too slowly” error, make sure your SMTP server box says exactly “smtpout.secureserver.net”

You may need to change the box’s default to say “smtpout.secureserver.net”

By: Tomislav

Tomislav — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:52:04 +0000

Great info. Gmail account is the best. Thanks for sharing this info. I weren’t able to find it on Godaddy wiki.

By: Thomas Trumble

Thomas Trumble — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:05:51 +0000

Mark – I believe that you cannot import an IMAP account into gmail, but you can use IMAP to import a gmail account into another email client. Let me know if I am wrong about that.