Outlook 2003 Configuration using Powered By Google Email
To set up your Outlook client to work with Powered by Google email:
- Enable POP Download for your Google email account. Within your Google email account, click Settings, then Forwarding and POP, then select Enable POP for all mail. Don't forget to click Save Changes
when you're done.
- Open Outlook.
- Click the Tools menu, and select E-mail Accounts...
- Click Add a new e-mail account, and click Next.
- Choose POP3 as your server type by clicking the radio button,
and click Next.
- Fill in all necessary fields to include the following information:
User Information
Your
Name: Enter your name as you would like it to appear in the
From: field of outgoing messages.
Email
Address: Enter your full email address
(username@your-domain.com)
Server Information
Incoming mail
server (POP3): pop.gmail.com
Outgoing mail server
(SMTP): smtp.gmail.com
Login Information
User Name:
Enter your username (including
@your-domain.com)
Password: Enter your email account password
- Click More Settings... and then click the
Outgoing Server tab.
- Check the box next to My outgoing server (SMTP) requires
authentication and select Use same settings as my
incoming mail server.
- Click the Advanced tab, and check the box next to
This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL)
under Incoming Server (POP3).
- Check the box next to This server requires an encrypted
connection (SSL) under Outgoing Server (SMTP),
and enter 465 in the
Outgoing server (SMTP) box.
- Click OK.
- Click Test Account Settings... After receiving
Congratulations! All tests completed successfully,
click Close.
- Click Next, and then click Finish.
- Download
the latest updates for Outlook from Microsoft. This will help
prevent the most common Outlook errors Gmail users see.
Congratulations! You're done configuring your client to send and
retrieve email using your new Powered By Google email account.
If you experience problems using POP with Outlook, please check the Common
Errors or Troubleshooting tabs.