Outlook 2010 IMAP Gmail

[gitano]

I thought I'd give Office 2010 beta a spin (I'm running W7 Dell x86
Office 2007) and after it had migrated my email accounts I couldn't
get POP3 access to any of my Gmail accounts with Outlook.

It seemed to only allow IMAP access.

Anyway having enabled IMAP it downloaded several thousand messages
that I didn't want and from then on went into 'Synchronising Folders'
for the gmail accounts for an eternity - well I gave up after 27
minutes.

I restarted and tried again but it just hangs on this synchronising.

finally I gave up and went back to 2007 which happily uses POP3.

Any ideas how/why 2010 doesn't support POP3 for Gmail or what this
endless synchronising is and how to stop it?

 

[Russ Valentine]

What do you mean "it had migrated my email accounts?"
Outlook does not "migrate" email accounts. You must create them from scratch
in a new Outlook profile.
Outlook 2010 supports POP3 like all other versions. You haven't created your
accounts correctly.

 

[DL]

You posted this 1 hour ago in another group, why are you wasting peoples
time by crossposting
Tha answers aint going to change

 

[gitano]

When I said migrated it is because when I upgraded to 2010 from 2007 my
accounts not based in websites went from 2007 to 2010 with no problem but my
gmail accounts had problem. What I have found in the web is that now with
2010 you cant configure the gmail account with POP. You have to do it with
IMAP. That´s what I did but I'm haviing problems with IMAP. If you have a way
to configure the gmail accounts in 2010 in POP, please tell me.

 

[gitano]

Sorry about that. I made one post in the newsgroups and another one in the
website. I didn't know they were the same thing. I already read your answer
in the newsgroups but my question would be if there is a way to configure the
gmail accounts using POP and not IMAP in 2010?

 

[VanguardLH]

gitano wrote:

<snip - repeated but MULTI-posted copy of SAME message>

Learn to cross-post:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html

A point not made is that N multi-posted copies will consume N times the disk
space for each of the separate copies of the same post. Cross-posted
messages have just *one* copy on the server with links in the newsgroups
back to the same single copy. Multi-posting wastes disk space on the
server. Yes, your post may be small but remember that you consume N times
the space on one server and then do so again on all the newsgroups servers
worldwide. You waste more bandwidth getting N copies of your multi-posted
message distributed to all the newsgroups servers worldwide. Cross-posting
has just one copy of the message on an NNTP server, and only one copy gets
propagated to other NNTP servers.

To those visiting the newsgroups, cross-posting helps them see ALL the
replies from those in the other RELATED newsgroup to which you linked your
post. That way, they don't waste their time duplicating similar replies.

Don't cross-post to more groups than needed if at all. Many consider
cross-posting to more than 4 groups as rude and may filter out your post.
The more groups you add, the less likely that they are related, the less
accurate or focused are the targeted groups, or some of the included groups
may already be encompassed by an included parent group. If they are
subgroups under a topic, choose whether you will be specific or general in
the targeted groups to which you post. Usenet-ignorants that shotgun their
posts across multiple groups trying to capture as large an audience as
possible will offend netizens with the poor aim. Multi-posting instead of
cross-posting when shotgunning across multiple groups evidences you as a
newbie, troll, or spammer.

 

[Russ Valentine]

You cannot install one version of Outlook over another, even with released
versions. It's especially true of a beta.
I already told you what to do.