In this article, we shall be showing you how to use Gmail Outlook Login on your computer or other devices that uses Outlook. First, What is Gmail Outlook. An Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. Mainly used as an email application. It is an interesting application from Microsoft Office suite like MSword, MSexcel and others. It not only manages Email Applications, It also include features like calendar, web browsing, task manager, Journal and Note taking but on this article, our focus is on Gmail Outlook Login.
Gmail Outlook Login – Auto setup
To login to Gmail Outlook in your computer, you need to follow the under-listed steps
- Open Outlook on your computer, if that is your first time, you will see a welcome note
- Click next. In the option for “Do you want to setup outlook to connect to email account” chose yes and click next
- Fill in the form as shown in the next page.
- Click next and allow the outlook to connect to login to your gmail account. But make sure you have an active and strong internet connection.
- If all things are good, your gmail emails gets downloaded into your system and you can access it anytime ‘online and offline’ when you are connected online, new emails drops as in your phone email application.
The above mentioned steps on Gmail Outlook Login is for automatic configuration. In some email servers automatic configuration does not work. You need to manually configure the POPor or IMAP and the SMTP address. On that note, lets look at Gmail Outlook Login manual configuration.
Gmail Outlook Login Manual configuration
In manual configuration,
- Open Outlook on your computer, if that is your first time, you will see a welcome note
- Click next. In the option for “Do you want to setup outlook to connect to email account” chose yes and click next
- Under the dialog box, click on manual setup or additional server type
- Click next and select POP or IMAP
- Fill the form with your Name, email address, password. On the column for username, retype your email address.
- If you chose POP3, enter gmail POP address which is pop.gmail.com. If it ask you for port enter: 995. TLS Protocol: ON. But if you chose IMAP, enter the Gmail IMAP Address which is imap.gmail.com. If it ask you for port enter: 993. Encryption: SSL
- click next and allow your email to download.
The same steps apply if you are to configure outlook manually using another email server. All you need to know is the POP server address and the SMTP server address of that email service provider.
However, by default, Gmail POP and IMAP Email forwarding is enabled. para-venture the email forwarding is disabled, neither manual nor auto configuration will work. you need to logon to your email account using browser and enable that feature.
How to enable Gmail POP and IMAP Access
- Logon to your email using browser. eg. firefox
- On the top right, click on the gear icon and select settings
- Click on Forwarding and POP/IMAP
- Enable POP and IMAP Access
- Scroll down and save
I how this have been very informative, If you wish to create a gmail account, follow the steps here: How to create gmail account and to sign in to gmail click here >> Gmail login
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