If you utilize Outlook to inspect as well as manage your e-mail, you can conveniently utilize it to inspect your Gmail account as well. You can set up your Gmail account to allow you to synchronize e-mail across numerous machines utilizing email customers rather than a web browser.

We will show you exactly how to use IMAP in your Gmail account so you can synchronize your Gmail account throughout numerous equipments, and afterwards how to add your Gmail account to Outlook 2010, 2013, or 2016.

Set Up Your Gmail Account to Use IMAP

To setup your Gmail account to use IMAP, sign in to your Gmail account as well as go to Mail.

Click the Settings button in the upper, appropriate corner of the home window and also choose Settings from the drop-down food selection.

On the Settings display, click Forwarding as well as POP/IMAP.

Scroll to the IMAP Access section and also choose Enable IMAP.

Click Save Changes at the end of the screen.

Permit Less Secure Apps to Access Your Gmail Account

If you are not making use of 2-factor verification on your Gmail account (although we suggest you do), you will need to permit much less safe and secure apps to access your Gmail account. Gmail blocks less safe and secure applications from accessing Google Apps accounts since these apps are simpler to get into. Obstructing less secure apps aids keep your Google account risk-free. If you try to include a Gmail account that does not have 2-factor authentication on, you will see the complying with mistake dialog box.

It is far better to activate 2-factor authentication in your Gmail account, yet if you would really rather not, check out Google’s Less safe and secure applications web page as well as visit to your Gmail account if motivated. After that, switch on Access for less secure applications.

Currently you must have the ability to remain to the following section and also include your Gmail account to Outlook.

Include Your Gmail Account to Outlook

Shut your browser and also open Outlook. To start including your Gmail account, click the File tab.

On the Account Information display, click Add Account.

On the Add Account dialog box, you can select the E-mail Account option which immediately sets up your Gmail account in Outlook. To do this, enter your name, e-mail address, and the password for your Gmail account twice. Click Next. (If you are using two-factor verification, you’ll need to obtain an “app password” from this web page.)

The development of the configuration screens. The automated procedure may or may not function.

If the automatic process falls short, pick Manual configuration or added web server kinds, rather than E-mail Account, and click Next.

On the Choose Service display, select POP or IMAP as well as click Next.

On the POP as well as IMAP Account Settings get in the User, Server, as well as Logon Information. For the Server Information, select IMAP from the Account Type drop-down checklist and also enter the following for the incoming and outgoing web server info:

Make certain you enter your full email address for the User Name as well as select Remember password if you desire Outlook to immediately log you in when checking email. Click More Settings.

Online E-mail Settings dialog box, click the Outgoing Server tab. Select the My outward bound server (SMTP) needs verification as well as ensure the Use exact same settings as my incoming mail server choice is chosen.

While still in the Internet E-mail Settings dialog box, click the Advanced tab. Get in the following details:

NOTE: You need to choose the sort of encrypted link for the outbound server before getting in 587 for the Outgoing server (SMTP) port number. If you go into the port number first, the port number will change back to port 25 when you transform the kind of encrypted connection.

Click OK to accept your changes and also close the Internet E-mail Settings dialog box.

Click Next.

Outlook evaluates the accounts settings by logging into the incoming mail web server as well as sending out an examination e-mail message. When the examination is ended up, click Close.

You should see a screen stating “You’re good to go!”. Click Finish.

Your Gmail address displays in the account checklist on the entrusted any other e-mail addresses you have included in Outlook. Click the Inbox to see what’s in your Inbox in your Gmail account.

Due to the fact that you’re utilizing IMAP in your Gmail account and also you used IMAP to add the account to Outlook, the messages as well as folders in Outlook mirror what’s in your Gmail account. Any type of adjustments you make to folders and also whenever you relocate email messages amongst folders in Outlook, the same modifications are made in your Gmail account, as you will see when you log into your Gmail account in a browser. This functions the other means also. Any kind of modifications you make to the framework of your account (folders, etc) in a web browser will certainly be shown the following time you log right into your Gmail account in Outlook.