First you need to enable IMAP in your Gmail account. Following are the steps to do that
1. Login to Gmail.
2. Select Settings at the top the page.
3. Select the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.
4. Select Enable IMAP.
5. Select any other options as desired and click Save Changes when you are done.
Now it’s time to launch Outlook 2010
There are two methods to do this
First is the Automatic Configuration – It is the simple method.
1. Click the Office logo in the upper-left corner.
2. At the top where it says Account Information, click the dropdown menu.
3. Select Add Account…
4. Fill in the name as you would like it to appear in your email messages, your Gmail address, and the password to your Gmail account. Click Next when you’re done.
5. It will communicate with the Google Mail server.
6. You should be sucessfully connected and your Gmail will now work through Outlook 2010. Click Finish to start using it.
If Automatic configuration does not work, find below the manual configuration
1. Click the Office logo in the upper-left corner.
2. At the top where it says Account Information, click the dropdown menu.
3. Select Add Account…
On the Add New Account screen, just choose Manually configure server settings or additional server types and click Next.
Choose Internet E-mail, connect to POP or IMAP server to send and receive e-mail messages and click Next.
Here give the User information, enter your Name, your full email address including @gmail.com or your @custom-mail.com.
Under Server information,
Account Type – IMAP
Incoming mail server – imap.gmail.com
Outgoing mail server (SMTP) – smtp.gmail.com
Also enter the logon information, enter your user name in full and enter the password.
NOTE: Now don’t click Next yet, click on More settings above it.
In the Internet email settings, go to Advanced Tab to change the server port numbers.
Change Incoming server (IMAP) to 993 and use SSL as the encrypted connection.
Change outgoing server (SMTP) to 587 and use TLS as the encrypted connection.
Now go to Outgoing server tab and check My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication and choose Use same settings as my incoming mail server.
Now you should be taken back to the Add new account screen, click on Test Account Settings and see if everything works without any errors. If there are any errors go back to all the settings and recheck if you have entered correctly.
Click Ok and Finish.
Now you will be taken to the main Outlook window and on the left sidebar a new set of folders will be created to synchronize with the Gmail account. It will also include Drafts, Sent Mail, Spam, Starred, Trash and all other mails synchronized.
1. Login to Gmail.
2. Select Settings at the top the page.
3. Select the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.
4. Select Enable IMAP.
5. Select any other options as desired and click Save Changes when you are done.
Now it’s time to launch Outlook 2010
There are two methods to do this
First is the Automatic Configuration – It is the simple method.
1. Click the Office logo in the upper-left corner.
2. At the top where it says Account Information, click the dropdown menu.
3. Select Add Account…
4. Fill in the name as you would like it to appear in your email messages, your Gmail address, and the password to your Gmail account. Click Next when you’re done.
5. It will communicate with the Google Mail server.
6. You should be sucessfully connected and your Gmail will now work through Outlook 2010. Click Finish to start using it.
If Automatic configuration does not work, find below the manual configuration
1. Click the Office logo in the upper-left corner.
2. At the top where it says Account Information, click the dropdown menu.
3. Select Add Account…
On the Add New Account screen, just choose Manually configure server settings or additional server types and click Next.
Choose Internet E-mail, connect to POP or IMAP server to send and receive e-mail messages and click Next.
Here give the User information, enter your Name, your full email address including @gmail.com or your @custom-mail.com.
Under Server information,
Account Type – IMAP
Incoming mail server – imap.gmail.com
Outgoing mail server (SMTP) – smtp.gmail.com
Also enter the logon information, enter your user name in full and enter the password.
NOTE: Now don’t click Next yet, click on More settings above it.
In the Internet email settings, go to Advanced Tab to change the server port numbers.
Change Incoming server (IMAP) to 993 and use SSL as the encrypted connection.
Change outgoing server (SMTP) to 587 and use TLS as the encrypted connection.
Now go to Outgoing server tab and check My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication and choose Use same settings as my incoming mail server.
Now you should be taken back to the Add new account screen, click on Test Account Settings and see if everything works without any errors. If there are any errors go back to all the settings and recheck if you have entered correctly.
Click Ok and Finish.
Now you will be taken to the main Outlook window and on the left sidebar a new set of folders will be created to synchronize with the Gmail account. It will also include Drafts, Sent Mail, Spam, Starred, Trash and all other mails synchronized.