If you’re a Kindle Fire owner, you know that email is one of the most important aspects of your online life. And if you’re like most people, you use Gmail as your primary email provider. But if you want to use Gmail on your Kindle Fire, there are a few things that you need to do in order to get started. First, create a new account and set up your preferences. Then, set up your domain and settings for that domain. Finally, add your Gmail account to the Kindle Fire’s Email App so that all of your emails will be sent through Gmail.

  1. Create a New Account on the Kindle Fire To create a new account on the Kindle Fire, first open the Settings app and select “Accounts.” Then click on “New Account.” Enter in your name and password (if any). Click “Create Account.”
  2. Set Up Your Preferences for Your Domain and Settings for That Domain Next, we need to set up our preferences for our domain and settings for that domain. To do this, we’ll need to open the Preferences app and select “Domain.” Then click on “Settings” under “Domain Settings.” Under “Settings,” we’ll need to set up our email settings for ourdomain: In this example, we’re setting up our email settings for an Amazon customer’s domain: amazon.com . Next, we’ll need to set up our email settings for theirsettings: In this example, we’re setting up our email settings for an Amazon customer’sdomain: . Finally, we’ll need to add their Gmail account to the Email App so that all of their emails will be sent through Gmail: Click on “Add Account” under “Domain Settings” and enter in their name and password (if any). Click on “Create Account.”

If you’ve just opened your shiny new Kindle Fire and tried to connect it to Gmail using your own custom (not @gmail.com) email address, you might be in for a surprise: the email account wizard has no idea how to handle this scenario, even if you pick Gmail at the beginning. Here’s how to fix it.

Note: we’re in the middle of doing a thorough test of the Kindle Fire, and we’ll post our in-depth review in the next few days. So far: it’s a great tablet for the price.

Setting Up Gmail Custom Domain Email in Kindle Fire

You’ll need to start, naturally, by opening up the Email application and selecting from the list—you can choose Gmail, even though we’ll have to tweak the settings. Once there, enter your email address and password.

Note: if you haven’t already enabled IMAP, you’ll want to head to your Gmail mail settings page and turn it on there.

Then you’ll probably want to choose IMAP.

And now you’ll come to the screen that makes no sense. The username is wrong, the IMAP server is wrong, and the security type is wrong.

Instead of using those values, you’ll want to use the following:

Username: Your full email address IMAP server: imap. gmail. com Security type: SSL

Head to the next screen, which will ask you for the outgoing server settings. You’ll want to use the following:

SMTP server: smtp. gmail. com Security type: TLS

Once you get past that screen, you’ll be able to access your email without issue.