gmail with outlook

[Elbert]

Hi,

I use OL2007in my home office. When I'm out of the office, I check my email
with browser-based email access from my ISP, Cablevision, but can see only
messages that have come in since I was last in the office. (I've set the
account up as POP so the messages are downloaded to my home computer when I
use OL at home.)

I'd like to be able to see every message I've saved, and my calendar and my
task list no matter where I am. If I were to use gmail instead of OL, I could
do all of those things but I'd lose functionality such as the Send to OneNote
button in OL.

Before I kill myself trying to figure this out, does anybody know if I could
combine OL and gmail in such a way that I could use gmail to store all
emails, calendar, etc., but access them through OL when I'm home and through
gmail when I'm on the road? If so, can you point me to directions? If not, is
there another way I can have access to stored messages etc. via OL2007 at
home and also on the road?

Thanks very much for your help.

 

[VanguardLH]

Hi,

I use OL2007in my home office. When I'm out of the office, I check my email
with browser-based email access from my ISP, Cablevision, but can see only
messages that have come in since I was last in the office. (I've set the
account up as POP so the messages are downloaded to my home computer when I
use OL at home.)

I'd like to be able to see every message I've saved, and my calendar and my
task list no matter where I am. If I were to use gmail instead of OL, I could
do all of those things but I'd lose functionality such as the Send to OneNote
button in OL.

Before I kill myself trying to figure this out, does anybody know if I could
combine OL and gmail in such a way that I could use gmail to store all
emails, calendar, etc., but access them through OL when I'm home and through
gmail when I'm on the road? If so, can you point me to directions? If not, is
there another way I can have access to stored messages etc. via OL2007 at
home and also on the road?

Thanks very much for your help.

Gmail does not comply with RFC standards that define POP3 access. They
only comply "close enough" to get most e-mail clients to use POP. It
doesn't matter if you configure your e-mail client to "leave messages on
server" (which eliminates the DELEte command after RETRieving a
message). Whether or not Gmail retains a copy of a message after it has
been retrieved depends on how YOU configured the POP settings in your
Gmail account.

Use the webmail interface to your Gmail account to see how you
configured its POP settings.

 

[Mike]

GMail recommends to use IMAP to synchronise with Outlook.
It allows full synchronisation, more superior than POP.

See Gmail help - IMAP for setting up.

MM.

 

[Elbert]

Got it. Thanks for the help.

GMail recommends to use IMAP to synchronise with Outlook.
It allows full synchronisation, more superior than POP.

See Gmail help - IMAP for setting up.

MM.