Configure Gmail

Pairing your Templ site's email with Gmail lets you send and receive mail from your own domain address using Gmail's familiar interface, for free. This guide walks through setting that up.

Before you follow this guide, you need to add your domain (without www) in the Templ Panel and point it to us.

If the domain is NOT using our nameservers you first need to do these three things before you configure Gmail.

Create your email forwarding address

Step 1 First, create an email forwarding address that forwards to your Gmail address, for example [email protected] forwarding to your personal Gmail.

Configure Gmail to send as your address

Step 2 Back in the Email section of the Templ Panel, open the SMTP Settings menu. These are the settings we'll configure in Gmail so you can send email as the address you just created.

Step 3 Open a new tab in your browser and log in to your Gmail account, then open the Gmail settings:

Gmail account settings

Gmail Accounts and Import settings page

Step 4 Go to the Accounts and Import tab, locate Send mail as, click Add another email address, fill in your information, and click Next Step.

Here you add your own sender name and your address, e.g. [email protected].

Entering sender name and email address in Gmail

Step 5 If you haven't already, open the Templ SMTP Settings page. The details there are used to configure Gmail, and will look similar to this:

Templ SMTP Settings page in the Templ Panel

In Gmail, fill in your details according to the SMTP Settings from Templ:

SMTP Server: the server address from your SMTP Settings
Username: your username from your SMTP Settings
Password: your password from your SMTP Settings (click Show password to copy it)
Port: 587

Select Secured connection using TLS (recommended).

Entering Templ SMTP details in Gmail

Click Add Account. Then verify your new email address: open the email you just received from the Gmail team (in your Gmail inbox), click the confirmation link, and then click Confirm.

You can now send emails with your new address via Gmail.

Not receiving your verification email?If you do not receive the verification email from the Gmail team, double check that you are using Templ's MX records. If the verification window for any reason closes before you can verify, please try using another browser.

Extra tips

To send a new email from the email you just set up, click the From option and select your newly created email:

Selecting the new email address in Gmail's From menu

You can also make this email the default: go to Gmail Settings → Accounts and Import, locate your email address, and click Make default.