Gmail Account On OS X Mail

I am having problems putting my Gmail Account onto my OS X Mail program, because I do not know which kind (POP,IMAP, or Exchange) of account it is. Can someone help?

Hi Zanjani,
You can access gmail as a POP account on the OS X Mail program. To set it up you need to do the following:
Select preferences from the Mail menu option then click on the accounts button.
From here click the + to set up a new account and select POP from the combo box (this will be initially set to .Mac). Set the description to something more helpful (like GMail) and type your name and gmail email address.
Press continue to bring you to the incoming mail server screen. Enter pop.gmail.com as your incoming mail server and put your gmail email address and password in the next two fields.
Press continue and it will check the login details are ok and bring you to the outgoing mail server screen. From here enter smtp.gmail.com as your outgoing mail server. Tick the box for user authentication then enter your gmail username and password again.
Press continue to bring you to an account summary screen then press continue and you'll be done.
Cheers,
Tom

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