Add Your Gmail Account to Outlook 2010 using POP

Here’s how you might easily add your Gmail account using POP to Outlook 2010.

Getting Started

Log into your Gmail account an go to your configs page.

Under the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab double-check POP is enabled.

Select Yes to add an email account to Outlook.

Now you’re ready to start entering your tweaks to access your email.

Outlook will now scan for the configs for your email account.

If Outlook was able to find options and configure your account automatically, you’ll see this success screen.

Depending on your setup, Gmail is automatically setup, but sometimes it fails to find the tweaks.

If this is the case, we’ll go back and manually configure it.

Select Internet E-mail and then click Next.

type your username, email address, and access information.

After that data is entered in, tap on the More tweaks button.

choose the Outgoing Server tab, and check My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication.

Verify Use same controls as my incoming mail server is marked as well.

This way your messages will still be accessible from Gmail online.

Click OK to shut the window, and then click Next to finish setting up the account.

Outlook will test your account tweaks to check that everything will work; click Close when this is finished.

Provided everything was entered in correctly, you’ll be greeted with a successful setup message…click Finish.

Gmail will be all ready to sync with Outlook 2010.

Enjoy your Gmail account in Outlook, complete with fast indexed searching, conversation view, and more!

Conclusion

Adding Gmail using the POP setting to Outlook 2010 is usually easy and only takes a few steps.

Even if you have to slide in your parameters manually, it is still a fairly simple process.