How to Use Outlook Express to Access Your Gmail Account Via Imap

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Gmail is an online email program that allows you to send and receive email. IMAP is another way of accessing your mail, possibly more convenient that the old POP3.

• Steps

1. Configure IMAP in your Gmail account
2. Open Outlook Express and add a new account
3. Type in your Display name
4. Type in your FULL email address (including @gmail.com)
5. Choose IMAP access
6. When it asks you the IMAP server name, type in "imap.gmail.com" without quotes
7. When it asks you the SMTP server name, type in "smtp.gmail.com" without quotes
8. Your account name is not just "somebody" but "somebody@gmail.com"
9. Type your password
10. Go to your account properties
11. Select the 'Servers' tab
12. Tick 'My Outgoing Mail Server requires authentication'
13. Go to advanced
14. Under outgoing mail tick this requires a secure connection and type in port numer 465
15. Under incoming mail tick this requires a secure connection.
16. Click OK.
17. Your Done!

• Tips

If this isn't quite correct. Try Google's instructions

• Warnings

1. Make sure that your port numbers are typed in correctly
2. If you change your Gmail password. You will also need to change your server password on Outlook Express

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