Using Outlook 2007 and Gmail Apps Premier

[pete424]

My wife and I are Realtors and occasionally when one of us is working from
home and the other one is in the office, we email attachments to eachother.
They show has being sent by "me" in our gmail apps premier accounts. These
messages go to the All Mail folder and not the Inbox. We are now using apps
sync and Outlook 2007 with a single domain name. When we send these emails
they show up in the sent mail folders of Outlook but not in the Inbox. They
are in the All mail folder in gmail. This is a bit confusing. Is there away
to send them to the Inbox instead of All Mail? What I want to be able to do
is send and email from Outlook on one machine through the Gmail apps servers
and have it show up in the Inbox of my Outlook on another machine within the
same domain.

 

[VanguardLH]

My wife and I are Realtors and occasionally when one of us is working from
home and the other one is in the office, we email attachments to eachother.
They show has being sent by "me" in our gmail apps premier accounts. These
messages go to the All Mail folder and not the Inbox. We are now using apps
sync and Outlook 2007 with a single domain name. When we send these emails
they show up in the sent mail folders of Outlook but not in the Inbox. They
are in the All mail folder in gmail. This is a bit confusing. Is there away
to send them to the Inbox instead of All Mail? What I want to be able to do
is send and email from Outlook on one machine through the Gmail apps servers
and have it show up in the Inbox of my Outlook on another machine within the
same domain.

You're starting to learn that Google does NOT follow the RFC standards for
POP and IMAP. They follow them just enough to get clients to mostly work
with their webmail service. Gmail doesn't permit sending e-mails from
yourself to yourself (other than archiving the message in the All Mail
folder which is a pointer to the copy in the Sent Items folder). While
Google claims to support POP and IMAP, their version of those protocols
should be called gPOP and gIMAP.

Regardless that YOU know there is more than one person accessing the same
Gmail account, how would Gmail know that? Both of you are logging on as the
same user to the same account. Gmail is known for excellent spam filtering,
and that includes blocking e-mails that [pretend to be] sent by you and
where you are also the recipient (spammers do that whereas users rarely send
themselves their own e-mails since they would obviously have a copy in their
Sent Items folder). You've run afoul of one of Google's anti-spam schemes
but then you are also sharing an account which Gmail wouldn't know about.

Since Gmail accounts are free, why prevent you and your wife from having
*separate* Gmail accounts? If you need to provide concurrent access by both
partners to each other's accounts then use IMAP with Gmail.