Gmail for Outlook 2003 & 2007
To set up your Outlook client to work with Gmail:
- Enable
POP in your email account. Don't forget to click Save Changes
when you're done.
- Open Outlook.
- Click the Tools menu, and select E-mail
Accounts...
- Check "View or change existing email accounts", and click Next.
- Choose (highlight) the email account in question and click Change.
- Fill in all necessary fields to include the following information:
User Information
Your Name: Enter your name as you would like it to appear
in the From: field of outgoing messages.
Email Address: Enter your full email address (username@YourDomain.com)
Server Information
Incoming mail server (POP3): pop.gmail.com
Outgoing mail server (SMTP): smtp.gmail.com
Login Information
User Name: Enter your full address in the format
username@YourDomain.com
Password: Enter your email password

- Click More Settings... and then click the
Outgoing Server tab.
- Check the box next to My outgoing server (SMTP) requires
authentication and select Use same settings as my incoming
mail server.
- Click the Advanced tab, and check the box next to
This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) under
Incoming Server (POP3).
- Check the box next to This server requires an encrypted connection
(SSL) under Outgoing Server (SMTP), and enter
465 in the
Outgoing server (SMTP) box.
- Click OK.
- Click Test Account Settings... After receiving
Congratulations! All tests completed successfully, click
Close.
- Click Next, and then click Finish.
- Download the
latest updates for Outlook from Microsoft. This will help prevent the most
common Outlook errors Gmail users see.
Congratulations! You're done configuring your client to send
and retrieve Gmail messages.
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