Add Gmail account to Outlook 2010 with POP

Are you interested in the latest version of Outlook and want to install it with your Gmail account? The following is a guide to adding your Gmail account to Outlook 2010 using POP.

Step 1 : Log in to your Gmail account and go to Settings page. Then, find the Forwarding and POP / IMAP menu and check Enable POP for all mail

Add an account to Outlook 2010

If you have not yet run Outlook 2010, select Next to start the installation and add your email account.

Select Yes to add an email account to Outlook. Now you can fill in your email account.

Or if you are using Outlook and want to add a new POP account, click File and select Add Account under Account Information .

Outlook 2010 can automatically receive and configure accounts with email addresses and passwords. Fill in the information and select Next to Outlook to install.

Outlook will scan the settings for your email account.

If Outlook can search for your settings and configure your account automatically, you will see a greeting screen displayed. Based on the settings, Gmail is installed automatically. However, sometimes the installation will fail. In this case, you need to reinstall.

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Configure Outlook for Gmail

Go back to the account settings screen, select Manually configure server settings or additional server types and click Next .

Select Internet E-mail > Next

Enter your username, email address and login information. In the Server information section, fill in the following information:

• Account Type: POP3

• Incoming mail server: pop.gmail.com

• Outgoing mail server: smtp.gmail.com

Remember to click on the Remember password entry so that you don't have to fill in multiple times.

After you have filled in the information, click More Settings

Select the Outgoing Server tab, check My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication and click Use same settings as my incoming mail server .

Select the Advanced tab and fill in the following information:

• Incoming Server (POP3): 995

• Outgoing server (SMTP): 587

• Check the This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) section

• Set Use the following type of encrypted connection to TLS

Click OK to close the window. Then, click Next to complete the installation. Outlook will check your account settings to make sure everything is on the right track. Click Close when finished.

Then there will be a greeting screen displayed. Select Finish

Gmail is ready to be integrated with Outlook 2010. Try your Gmail account in Outlook.

Conclude

Adding Gmail to Outlook using POP is easy with a few simple steps. You can add a lot of email accounts with POP3 if you want. Good luck!

( Source : Howtogeek)