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title: "E-mail Settings"
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updated: "2026-10-20"
category: FAQ
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# E-mail Settings

## **E-mail Settings**

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## **1. Setting up a Gmail account:**

- Enabling 2-Step verification on Gmail
- Log in to your Gmail account
- Click your Profile icon in the top-right corner
- Select Manage your Google Account

 

[![](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-1-1024x338.png)](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-1.png)

- Navigate to the Security tab on the left
- Click the 2-Step verification option

 

[![](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-2-1024x494.png)](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-2.png)

 

- Enter your Gmail account password

 

[![](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-3-1024x438.png)](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-3.png)

 

- Click the Turn on 2-Step Verification button

 

[![](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-4-1024x285.png)](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-4.png)

 

- Go back by clicking the arrow

 

[![](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-5-1024x390.png)](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-5.png)

 

## **2. App Password Setup - In the Search field, type App Password:**

- Select the App Passwords (Security) option

 

[![](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-6-1024x283.png)](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-6.png)

 

- Enter App Name (Accur8)
- Click the Create button

 

[![](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-7-1024x375.png)](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-7.png)

 

- A dialog box opens with the generated app password

 

[![](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-8-1024x295.png)](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-8.png)

 

- Copy the password and paste it into a txt file
- Save the txt file with the password

 

[![](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-9-1024x357.png)](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-9.png)

 

## **3. Settings for the Accur8 TMS Platform:**

- General settings for Gmail accounts on the Accur8 TMS platform
  - Click the user icon in the upper right corner of the screen
  - Select Settings

 

[![](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-10-1024x392.png)](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-10.png)

 

- - Go to the Email Settings tab

 

[![](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-11-1-1024x316.png)](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-11-1.png)

 

- - In the SMTP Server field, enter: smtp.gmail.com
  - In the Port field, enter: 587
  - Click Save

*Note: Leave the SSL option unchecked

- User Account Settings
  - Click your user icon in the upper right corner of the screen
  - Select My profile

 

[![](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-12-1024x390.png)](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-12.png)

 

- - In the SMTP Email Sending Settings section, enter your Gmail address.
  - Open the document where you’ve saved the password you received from Gmail (2.f.)

 

[![](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-13-1024x440.png)](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-13.png)

 

- - Delete all spaces in the password so that it appears as a single word.

 

[![](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-14-1024x444.png)](https://accur8.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Email-Settings-14.png)

 

- - Copy the password
  - Paste the password into the SMTP password field
  - Click the Save