Add Your Gmail Account to Outlook 2011 Mac Using IMAP

To set up your Outlook client to work with Gmail:

• Enable IMAP in Gmail

1. Sign in to Gmail.
2. Click the gear icon in the upper-right and select Gmail settings at the top of any Gmail page.
3. Click Forwarding and POP/IMAP
4. Select Enable IMAP.
5. Configure your IMAP client and click Save Changes.

• Open Microsoft Office Outlook 2011. If you have just installed Outlook 2011 it will show in your Dock.
• If you see a Welcome to Outlook screen, click Add Account. Otherwise click Tools > Accounts > Add Accountfrom the Apple Menu bar.

• Click E-mail Account.

• Now we need to manually enter in our settings similar to the following.
• Enter your email address, password and user name.
• Select IMAP for type
• Incoming server : imap.gmail.com / Either 993 (ssl) or 143 (very infrequently 585 (ssl))
• Outgoing server : smtp.gmail.com / Either 25 or 465 (ssl) (very infrequently 2525)
• Click Add Account

• Click More Options.

• Use Incoming server info for Authentication
• Click OK

If you've entered everything in correctly, task will be completed successfully and you can close out of the window and begin using your account via Outlook 2011 mac.

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