Gmail to Outlook 2003

[Scottie]

If I don't have my gmail account opened I don't send or receive messages. And
my mail does not (ever) open under the personal file of Outlook, but it
created a gmail account above that. I have to delete things in my gmail
account before they will delete in outlook - YIKES what a mess

 

[VanguardLH]

If I don't have my gmail account opened

Opened in WHAT? Your web browser? In Outlook (and, if so, what does
"opened" mean)? Something else?

I don't send or receive messages.

Are there any error messages?

And my mail does not (ever) open under the personal file of Outlook,
but it created a gmail account above that.

What does "created above" mean? That a separate message store is shown
for Gmail (i.e., another root tree for the Gmail message store shown in
the folder pane)? If so, you created an IMAP account in Outlook? Each
IMAP account gets its own message store. Each message store gets its
own root branch displayed in the tree list for the folder view.

Well, you defined an IMAP account in Outlook for your Gmail account.
So did you follow Gmail's instructions on how to enable IMAP access in
your Gmail account?

I have to delete things in my gmail account before they will delete in
outlook - YIKES what a mess

Are you using POP to access your Gmail account? If so, did you enable
the "leave messages on server" option in Outlook?

Or are you using IMAP to access your Gmail account?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Are you using IMAP?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

Let's Really Fix Outlook 2010
http://forums.slipstick.com/forumdisplay.php?f=34

 

[Scottie]

Yes, I have followed the explicit directions in Gmail. The transfer also
seems to have duplicated all the existing email folders in my Outlook.
Thanks for your reply.

Are you using IMAP?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

Let's Really Fix Outlook 2010
http://forums.slipstick.com/forumdisplay.php?f=34

If I don't have my gmail account opened I don't send or receive messages.
And
my mail does not (ever) open under the personal file of Outlook, but it
created a gmail account above that. I have to delete things in my gmail
account before they will delete in outlook - YIKES what a mess

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

If I don't have my gmail account opened I don't send or receive messages.

What does this mean?

And my mail does not (ever) open under the personal file of Outlook, but it
created a gmail account above that.

No., it creates _folders_, not an account. You created the account when you
used E-mail Accounts>Add to add it. Apparently you created an IMAP account
and Outlook always creates a folder set for that type of account.

I have to delete things in my gmail
account before they will delete in outlook - YIKES what a mess

Completely untrue. Select the message in the gmail folder in Outlook, click
Delete, which will mark the message deleted (it will show with an overstrike
through it), then click Edit>Purge Deleted Messages to remove them both from
Outlook and the server.