 Outlook Sidebar with Gmail |
[This is a post from Freshme.at, the predecessor to EloquentSpace]
This should be very similar in Outlook 2007. All of the settings are the same, but often found in different locations. Setting up Gmail in Outlook Open Outlook. Go to Tools > Email Accounts. Select add a new e-mail account and click next. Select IMAP from the server types and click next again. On the next screen enter all of your user info, email address, etc. Enter in Gmail’s servers: imap.gmail.com and smtp.gmail.com. Once you have filled out all the settings you’re going to want to click the ‘more settings’ button. Click the outgoing server tab and check the ‘My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication’ checkbox. Click the advanced tab and check off that the server requires SSL for BOTH servers. Change the SMTP port to 465. Click OK. You can test your account settings via the button now, if you followed directions it should work fine. You should see your Inbox in the left pane, if you don’t you’re going to want to go back into the email accounts options > view accounts and change the settings for your IMAP so it has a data file of its own. Copying your mail To copy your mail, you would just drag everything over to the folder in your Gmail inbox that you wish to have the mail in. Plan this part out carefully because doing it wrong can result in duplicates which is annoying. |
Other Ideas:
- Add webmail accounts to Gmail via their built in settings.
- Use Evolution Mail (Linux) to copy mail from an exchange web account to your Gmail, and then set up a rule to forward your new messages to Gmail as well. This is only necessary if you don’t have access to the exchange server externally and don’t want to add your Gmail account at work for security reasons.
- …be creative. Gmail is the $h1zniT
Thank you! I just used this guide and it worked great! I think you should have gone into a little more detail on it, but overall it’s fairly easy to follow. Now I only use gmail and I have 5 email accounts. I don’t see why anyone would use anything but gmail… but hey theres a lot of stupid people out there.
By the way, I am an Debian user so I used Evolution mail for this and it worked just as well. You can even use exchange in Evolution. It goes through the web access so your company has to have that set up for it to work. Otherwise just make a pst at work and import it… I thnk you can do that too.