Regular visitors to this site already know that it is usually a very bad place for getting technical information. I am much more of an end userist than I am a technologists. I tend also to avoid have company executives show me how to use their products. If the products are designed for end users like me, we should be able to figure it out for ourselves.
A few days back, while in a hurry and realizing that by using two email accounts I was creating information management headaches, I spent a frustrating half hour trying to figure out for myself how to forward my Gmail into my Outlook and the answer was not readily at my fingertips as I feel it should have been.
So I cheated. I posted a blog asking for help. No fewer than four people gave me answers. It appears they gave me three different answers and I have a hunch each will work.
Thanks for your generosity, everyone.
I used the first solution offers--from my old friend Tom Stitt of Aperial Technologies [website]. It was simple and straightforward and it works just great. I offer it here so that frustrated end users will be able to discover it when they search for the same solution. Thanks, Tom.
In Outlook:
1. Tools-->Email Accounts-->Add a new Email Account--POP3
2. POP=pop.gmail.com
Tick the box that says "My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication"
Set the POP3 Port to 985 and tick the box that says "This server requires and encrypted connection"
Set the SMTP Port to 24 and tick the box that says "This server requires and encrypted connection"
You will also need to open your Gmail account, select Settings (upper right hand corner of your screen) and enable POP Download on the Forwarding and POP link. Keep Forwarding set to Disable. You want to Enable POP. I leave the 2nd item under POP Download set to "When messages are accessed with POP - keep Gmail's copy in the Inbox
You can also setup Gmail to receive yourOutlook account - essentially giving you the option of having all your email "backed up" at Gmail and having web (vs. Client) access to all your email (nice option the laptop ever decides to take another holiday in France.) Gmail lets you set the reply address for each email account. Assuming your ISP lets you do SMTP relay, you can do the same thing with Outlook.
