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email: review gmail submission documentation (tpo/tpa/team#42010) authored by anarcat's avatar anarcat 
I did the onboarding with gillian and things were not quite right. The
top NOTE was particularly confusing.
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## Gmail configuration ## Gmail configuration
**NOTE**: This section explains how to reconfigure a gmail account Follow those steps to configure an existing Gmail account to send
that is _already_ configured to use a `torproject.org` address. If email through the Tor Project servers, to be able to send email with a
you need to add a new address from scratch, the process will be a `@torproject.org` identity.
little different.
1. log into your Gmail account in a web browser 1. Log in to your Gmail account in a web browser
2. Click on "Settings", that should be the big gear icon towards 2. Click on "Settings", that should be the big gear icon towards
the top right of your window the top right of your window
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3. This will take you to a "Settings" page. Click on the "Accounts 3. This will take you to a "Settings" page. Click on the "Accounts
and Import" tab at the top of the page. and Import" tab at the top of the page.
4. Under "Send mail as", find the address for 4. Under "Send mail as", click "Add another email address" and add
<yourname@torproject.org>, if the address is not there, click "Add the <yourname@torproject.org> address there. Keep the "treat as an
another email address" and first add an email address, then return alias" box checked.
here
5. Click the "edit info" link to the right of that account 5. Click the "edit info" link to the right of that account
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out like this: out like this:
- Select "Send through torproject.org SMTP servers". - Select "Send through torproject.org SMTP servers".
- Set "SMTP Server:" to "submission.torproject.org" - Set "SMTP Server:" to `submission.torproject.org`, *not* `mx-dal-01.torproject.org`
- Set "Port:" to 465. - Set "Port:" to 465.
- Set "Username:" to your username (_without_ "@torproject.org"). - Set "Username:" to your username (_without_ `@torproject.org`).
- Set "Password:" to the email submission password that you configured. - Set "Password:" to the email submission password that you configured.
- This password usually differs from the one used for logging in to - This password is not the same as the one used for logging in
`db.torproject.org`. See [how to set the email password][]. to `db.torproject.org`. See [how to set the email password][].
- Keep "Secured connection using SSL (recommended)" selected - Keep "Secured connection using SSL (recommended)" selected, the
other one "Secured connection using TLS"
Double-check everything, then click "Save Changes". Gmail will
try authenticating to the SMTP server; if it's successful, then
the popup window will close and your account will be updated.
7. A confirmation email will be sent to the <yourname@torproject.org>
which should forward back to your Gmail mailbox.
Double-check everything, then click "Save Changes". Gmail will try 8. Try sending a mail with your `@torproject.org` identity.
authenticating to the SMTP server; if it's successful, then the popup
window will close and your account will be updated. When you compose a new message, on the "From" line, there will now
be a drop-down menu, where you can pick your normal Gmail account
or the new `@torproject.org` account as your identity.
It might take a while to propagate.
# How-to # How-to
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