====== G-mail Private account on behalf of CERGE-EI address ======



You can use Gmail as an email client for your CERGE-EI mailbox for receiving and sending messages.

To receive cerge-ei traffic use messages forwarding from CERGE-EI to Gmail as Gmail can not connect an external mailbox over IMAP. If you need to send or reply cerge-ei email from Gmail, please read the following guide:

[[https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en|https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en]]

You'll find there:

  - How to arrange your setting and create new identity related to CERGE-EI mailbox.
  - How to send an email on behalf of your CERGE-EI address.

<WRAP round important 90%> Use the proper form of email address **Firstname.Surname@cerge-ei.cz**, not the login@cerge-ei.cz. Do not compromise your login, it should be kept __secret__ or at least __private__ to avoid brute force attack and to make abuse harder.</WRAP>

<WRAP round important 90%> For username use on the contrary the login exclusively, not the complete email address, as it will be disabled for future. </WRAP>

<WRAP round important 90%> Use CERGE-EI SMTP server to be able to address all distribution lists including the uppermosts, like All CERGE-EI Affiliate. </WRAP>

Last but not least

<WRAP round important 90%> Using the CERGE-EI SMTP server is also the necessary condition if you are using cerge-ei address in the From filed. For the security reason it is not allowed to use our address over outside SMTP servers. It is detected as spoofing and your messages are marked as untrustworthy</WRAP>

Gmail is unsupporting this old type of identity setting for the new account for a several years.

=== SMTP Settings ===
<code>

   Server Address:  mailgw.cerge-ei.cz
   Connection Security: STARTTLS
   Port: 587 (default)
   Authentication Method: Normal password (ordinary PC/network password)

</code>
<WRAP round important 90%>Please check the correct values, especially the server address and port. The default values ​​provided by Gmail may not be valid.</WRAP>