Integrating Google SMTP with Mailmodo
Last updated November 18, 2025
Mailmodo allows you to send emails from your Gmail ID using Google's SMTP.
Note: Freemail sender IDs (Gmail, Outlook, etc) are not allowed. Please, use your email address configured on any custom (or organisation's) domain.
Here is the step by step process to do so-
Step 1: Signup/ Login to your Mailmodo account, go to Settings-> Sender Domains ->click on 'Add Sender'.
Step 2: Enter the sender mail ID from which mails have to be sent. Then select 'Custom SMTP' and click On OK.
Step 3:The following modal will open up:
Display Name: This is for your reference. You may name it Google<>Mailmodo SMTP Username: Your full Gmail address SMTP Password: <We will generate it using the steps below> Host: smtp.gmail.com Port: 587
How to generate SMTP Password: Follow these steps to generate the SMTP password-
- Go to your Gmail account, click on Settings->See all settings
- Click on Accounts->Google Account Settings
- In the Google Account page, select Security from the left pane. Then go to 'Signing in to Google', and make sure 2-Step Verification is turned on for your account then click on "2-Step Verification". *You can directly go to your App-Passwords page using this link.
Click on "App Passwords" under "2-Step Verification".
Copy the password including spaces.
Paste the password in your Custom SMTP modal in Mailmodo under "SMTP Password".
Step 4- Once the details have been successfully added, click on "Submit". Then on the Mailmodo 'Sender Settings' page, click on 'Verify domain' in front of the added sender ID.
If the details have been correctly added, your domain Status will change to "Verified".
Step 5: You may then proceed to apply for AMP approval for your sender ID by clicking on the 'Apply for AMP Approval' button.
For detailed steps on applying your sender ID for sending AMP mails, follow this guide.
In case your sender ID does not get verified or it is showing as waiting for a long time, then there might be an issue with DKIM use this guide to resolve it. Please make sure that all the steps are done correctly.