How to set up Gmail in Outlook Gmail is a popular choice for email, and you can get this as part of the Google Apps suite to use as email at your domain. See for how to get Google Apps free for nonprofits! Your Gmail account can be accessed anywhere using an email app on your phone or by logging on to Gmail.com, but you may prefer to use Outlook to access your email. This tutorial will walk you through the setup process in Outlook for your Gmail account. 1 Enable IMAP and Outlook access in Google In order to connect Outlook to Gmail, you'll need to first enable the IMAP connection that Outlook will use.
On this trouble PC, I have installed fresh Office 2010 - brand new win7 laptop. I fire up a new outlook profile and autodiscover does it's thing BUT it does not take the password. I can log in with that user's account on OWA and I even have that user setup in outlook on another brand new PC with office 2010 and it works fine. Outlook won't accept my password. If Outlook won’t accept your password and you know you’re using the right password for your Gmail account, you might have an older version of Outlook that doesn't currently support this faster Gmail setup option.
Log in to your Google Apps account at Gmail.com, and click the gear button to access your settings. Click 'Settings'.
Go to the 'Forwarding and POP/IMAP' tab. Click the radio button to 'Enable IMAP'. You can leave the default settings for the additional options that appear, unless you specifically want to change them.
Save your changes. Now, you'll need to click this link to allow Outlook to log in to your account: If you're unable to complete this step, you'll need to have your admin log into and change a setting. The admin will need to do a search for less secure and click on the less secure apps result. Then just change the setting to the middle option as pictured below:. Next, make sure your account is unlocked by visiting this link and clicking 'Continue': Now you're ready to set up the account in Outlook!
2 Add a new IMAP account in Outlook These instructions assume you are starting from scratch to set up an new email account in Outlook. If you are switching to Gmail but are keeping an email address that you already have set up as POP3, you will still need to create a new one, since Outlook won't let you modify the account type.
Now a days when you try to setup the outlook for GMail, it keeps asking you to provide your credentials and wont accept your password. Along with that you might receive following Errors: 1) Your IMAP server wants to alert you to the following: Please log in via your web browser: (Failure) 2) Log onto incoming mail server (IMAP): The connection to the server was interrupted. If this problem continues, contact your server administrator or internet service provider (ISP). 3) Send test e-mail message: Your e-mail server rejected your login.
Verify your user name and password for this account in Account Settings. The reason behind this issue is that, if the basic Authentication has not been enabled for your Gmail account it throws the above error messages. In order to increase the security measures to block the access for your Gmail accounts after 15th July, 2014, google has taken these steps when you try to sync Gmail account with apps and other email clients on any devices. To resolved this issue, enable 'Basic Authentication' for your Gmail account. To do so please see this video and if you like the video, please share it and provide your valuble comments in the below comment box. Do not forget to subscribe the channel to get the future updates.
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