"Outlook" your Gmail!!!

Do you have a Gmail account?  Most of us do have I guess.  But still, many are using it online and in the event that your ISP is down and you need to retrieve some of your messages in your Gmail, you should at least have an "offline content" of your inbox.

The good news is Gmail offers POP and IMAP services to configure your account in Microsoft Outlook.  The best thing is it's free. Unlike Yahoo! Mail which needs you to pay in a monthly basis.

Post Office Protocol (POP) is an application-layer Internet standard protocol used by local e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection.  POP and IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) are the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval. Virtually all modern e-mail clients and servers support both.

Here's a quick guide to "Outlook your Gmail"

1.  Go to your Gmail account, under Settings, Enable IMAP. Don't forget to click Save Changes when you're done.







2.  Open Outlook2007.  For new setups, click next button two times.  Alternatively you can click in the Tools Menu>Account settings and click New...

3.  Enter your display name, email address (including '@gmail.com'), and password
4.  Be sure to select the 'Manually configure server settings or additional server types' checkbox and hit Next















5.  Select Internet E-mail then click Next
6.  Settings: name, full email address (including '@gmail.com')

• In the Account Type dropdown menu, select IMAP; enter the incoming and outgoing server names shown below.
• In the 'User Name' field, give your full Gmail address, including '@gmail.com'

7.  Click More Settings, then the Advanced tab.

• Incoming server must be 993, and must use SSL encryption.
• Outgoing server can use 587, TLS encryption.

8.  Click the Outgoing Server tab. Make sure that 'My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication' is selected. The radio button 'Use same settings as my incoming mail server' should also be selected.

9.  Click OK > Next > Finish.  Congratulations, you have set up your Gmail account in Outlook!!!

You can now use Gmail on your Microsoft Outlook!