Setting up your Google App email (IMAP) in Outlook 2007
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To set up your Google App email account on Outlook 2007, please use the following steps:
Start Outlook
If you already don’t have an email address associated.
It will ask you to set up a new email. CLICK YES.
If you already have an email address, click on Tools, Account settings
Click on New and Select Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP or HTTP
Enter your name, email and password
Tick Manually configure server settings or additional server types
Choose Internet e-mail and click next
Enter Internet e-mail Settings
- Enter your Name
- Enter your email address
- Enter your account type as IMAP
- enter your username which is your full email address
- Enter your password
- Click on more settings
Click on More Settings …
Click on Outgoing Server Tab
Check My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication and make sure Use same settings as my incoming mail server is checked
Click on Advanced Tab
Insert Incoming server (IMAP) as 993
Select “SSL†as the following type of encrypted connection: SSL
Insert Outgoing server (SMTP) as 587
Use the following type of encrypted connection: TLS
Click on OK
You should be all set to go. Make sure you use emails for the better of humanity 🙂