Important: Once you connect your Gmail account to Outlook, you may receive a warning message in your Gmail inbox telling you that a new logon from Internet Explorer was detected. This is expected behavior.
If you need instructions for adding an email account using advanced settings, see. To update your email settings such as incoming and outgoing server names, see. 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. In that case, you'll need to use two-factor authentication to help verify that you're the person trying to access your Gmail account.
To add your Gmail account to Outlook, you’ll need an app password. This is a different password than your regular Gmail account password. Gmail does allow you to add your account to Outlook without setting up two-factor authentication and using an app password, but you must turn on a setting that allows 'less secure apps' to connect to your account. We do not recommend this setting. We recommend turning on two-factor authentication and using an app password. To turn on two-factor authentication and get an app password, use the following steps.
Go to from your browser, then select the Google apps icon in the upper right corner of the screen. Select My Account. Under Sign-in & security, select Signing in to Google. Under Password & sign-in method, if 2-Step Verification is OFF, click the next to OFF. Otherwise, skip to step 4. On the first screen, click CONTINUE. If prompted, enter your Gmail password and then click NEXT.
Features of Gmail for Mac Desktop Client: Since apps like Outlook and Mail doesn’t come with the power and functionality of Gmail, it was tiresome and when you wanted to use Gmail, you had to do.
Enter your phone number and select whether you want to receive your verification codes by text message or a phone call. Then click NEXT. Enter the code you received and click NEXT. Click TURN ON to finish setting up 2-step verification.
Return to the previous screen by clicking the left arrow at the top of the screen next to 2-Step Verification. Under Password & sign-in method, select App passwords. Enter your Google password and then select Sign in.
At the bottom of the next screen, select Mail and Windows Computer from the drop-down lists, then select Generate. Google will display an app password for you.
Copy this password (without the spaces) and enter this password when Outlook prompts you for a password.
Microsoft Outlook for Mac Add Your Gmail Account to Outlook 2011 Mac Using IMAP To set up your Outlook client to work with Gmail:. Enable IMAP in Gmail. Sign in to Gmail. Click the gear icon in the upper-right and select Gmail settings at the top of any Gmail page.
Click Forwarding and POP/IMAP. Select Enable IMAP.
Configure your IMAP client and click Save Changes. Open Microsoft Office Outlook 2011. If you have just installed Outlook 2011 it will show in your Dock. If you see a Welcome to Outlook screen, click Add Account. Otherwise click Tools Accounts Add Accountfrom the Apple Menu bar. Click E-mail Account. Now we need to manually enter in our settings similar to the following.
Enter your email address, password and user name. Select IMAP for type. Incoming server: imap.gmail.com / Either 993 (ssl) or 143 (very infrequently 585 (ssl)). Outgoing server: smtp.gmail.com / Either 25 or 465 (ssl) (very infrequently 2525).
Click Add Account. Click More Options. Use Incoming server info for Authentication. Click OK If you've entered everything in correctly, task will be completed successfully and you can close out of the window and begin using your account via Outlook 2011 mac. Import your old POP account into the newly created IMAP account If you currently keep a copy of your mail on the server, then you're done! But if you delete them from the server, then you have to import your old POP mail into your IMAP. Here's how to do it.
Click the Tools tab. Click Import. Click Outlook Data File (.pst or.olm), and then click the right arrow to continue.
Select (.pst) or (.olm). Browse, your backup (.pst) or (.olm) file to import. Done.
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Now you can check your back up data on outlook. And the very important thing is you have to disable your old POP account from the Outlook, Otherwise they will continue to receive email in the old POP account. Go to Account settings. Delete your old pop account Setting up your Sent folder properly. From the Accounts window, select Advanced.
Click Folders. From the Sent drop-down, select Sent Mail (Server).