18 March 2010
Did you know you can collect your Gmail eMail via your own eMail client such as Outlook or Outlook Express?

Article about Collecting Gmail email using Outlook

If you are using Google to manage your email Outlook can still be used to collect your Gmail messages locally on your computer.

You will need to make the following changes to your settings in your eMail client.

In the E-mail Address box and user name box, type your e-mail address

In the Incoming mail server (POP3) box, type pop.gmail.com

In the Outgoing mail server (SMTP) box, type smtp.Gmail.com

Click More Settings

Click the Outgoing Server tab, and then select the My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication check box

Select Use same settings as my incoming mail server

Advanced tab
Click the Advanced tab, and then under Server Port Numbers for both Incoming server (POP3) and Outgoing server (SMTP), select the This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) check boxes.

Change the Outgoing server (SMTP) port number to 465

The Incoming server (POP3) port number should change automatically to 995 when you select the This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) check box.

Click OK

Do not select the Log on using Secure Password Authentication (SPA) check box

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