By default Gmail is configured to interact with email clients using IMAP. If you wish to use POP then this needs to be enabled within the settings.
To enable POP email connections with gmail:
- Sign in to your Gmail account with a browser on the gmail website.
- In the top right hand corner click on the gear icon and select Settings and near the top of the quick settings options click on See all settings..
- From the menu items running across the page click on Forwarding and POP/IMAP.
- There’s a section for POP download. Select either the option Enable POP for all mail or Enable POP for mail that arrives from now on.
- There’s an option to chose what happens to your messages after your POP client or device receives them.
Although the radio button next to your selected option may not stay selected, Gmail displays the status as 1. Status POP is enabled for all emails.
With POP disabled the text reads: 1. Status POP is disabled.
