Gmail and Microsoft Outlook

Shaye87 · 26 Sep 2008 at 18:50

I want to set my gmail account on Microsoft Outlook (2007), my only question is that in Gmail I get roughly 50 emails that goes straight to the spam folder (they are all junk), and none to the inbox, that's a good thing.
What will happen when I will use outlook? I don't wanna get the spam messages to my inbox there :rolleyes:

mr.sly · 26 Sep 2008 at 18:54

If I remember correctly, only the mail from the inbox gets sent to Outlook.

carpmaster · 26 Sep 2008 at 18:56

There's a junk mail folder in 07, they just go into their respective folders.

bsoltan · 26 Sep 2008 at 19:00

If they go straight into the Spam Folder in GMail then they won't show up in your Outlook at all.

That's what mine do anyway.

s-p · 26 Sep 2008 at 19:12

bsoltan said:
If they go straight into the Spam Folder in GMail then they won't show up in your Outlook at all.

That's what mine do anyway.

That's correct. Outlook won't even attempt to download them as it's only interested in your inbox.

MikeHiow · 26 Sep 2008 at 19:23

Unless you're using IMAP (Which is superior, to be fair). In which case, it'll give you a list of your folders, including your Junk, Inbox, as well as All Mail for archived items.

Shaye87 · 26 Sep 2008 at 23:04

cheers guys
could you tell me what's the difference between the pop and the imap protocol?

fini · 26 Sep 2008 at 23:06

Don't use IMAP with gmail - servers are terribly slow (POP is fine though).

LeperousDust · 26 Sep 2008 at 23:56

IMAP's a decent protocol and POP is something from the dark ages... I've never had any problems with the IMAP servers, but i'm just using it on my phone.

fini · 27 Sep 2008 at 00:31

Search google for 'gmail imap outlook problems' - it brings back over a million results. I also thinks its a bit unfair saying POP is 'something from the dark ages' - IMAP does have its advantages, but in most situations POP does the job just fine.

MarcLister · 27 Sep 2008 at 00:56

This any help?

http://lifehacker.com/search/gmail outlook/

fini · 27 Sep 2008 at 02:06

Seen that before - sadly it just makes gmail with IMAP even more of a pain to use and doesn't make it that much faster.

swinnie · 27 Sep 2008 at 08:30

I use POP3 on my PC, and IMAP on my laptop.

IMAP is really slow, and hugely unstable under Outlook on Vista I found, just kept crashing. Using it in Thunderbird was fine, but still slow.

iMacMart · 27 Sep 2008 at 11:17

Could not get POP to work with gmail account and outlook 2007, kept asking me to enter username and password all the god damn time

fini · 27 Sep 2008 at 11:24

Just tick 'remember password'. If you've done that and it's still asking it sounds like you've either not enabled POP within gmail (its in the settings in gmail) or have entered the wrong details.

iMacMart · 27 Sep 2008 at 11:38

fini said:
Just tick 'remember password'. If you've done that and it's still asking it sounds like you've either not enabled POP within gmail (its in the settings in gmail) or have entered the wrong details.

Hi fini

I spent days looking at this, I did all of the above, it would work perfectly for a few days then start asking for a password and username again...

It has done it a on imap but only the once I think

blix · 27 Sep 2008 at 12:38

While we're talking about Gmail and Outlook, is there a way to download all your messages on Gmail to POP3? Cause once they've been downloaded I can't find a way to allow them to be downloaded again.

swinnie · 27 Sep 2008 at 12:44

In the 'Forwarding and POP/IMAP', under 'POP Download' select 'Enable POP for all mail (even mail that's already been downloaded)'. And save it.