Learn How to Access Your Webmail with Outlook
The competition between Web-based email service providers is leading many of them to provide features and functionalities that are equal to and at times even better than the traditional ISP email services. In fact, many of these Web-based email services now offer plenty of storage space, enviable uptimes and excellent spam filtering features. And to top it all, these email accounts are accessible from anywhere making them ideal for frequently traveling users who can access their personal email from work, home or even their mobile devices.
However, what you may be looking for is a way of combining the advanced planning and contact management features of Window's Outlook with your web based email account. In other words, you might want to continue using Outlook as your primary email program and not have to give up on your Web-based accounts as well. There are fairly easy ways of doing so ' you need to make some simple changes to your Outlook settings and you can start to use Outlook to access your Webmail.
The other advantage of using Outlook to access your Webmail is that you can always recover Outlook using software such as Advanced Outlook Repair from DataNumen. This ability to recover Outlook means that your messages will always be safe and protected.
While there are many Web-based email services, Gmail is one of the few that is completely free. Yahoo! Mail Plus and MSN Hotmail Plus are both fee based services. We will therefore quickly look at how you can use Outlook to access mails from your Gmail account.
· First of all you need to set the Settings in your Gmail account to allow for your mails to be downloaded. Go to the Settings link from your Gmail account, click on the 'Forwarding and POP/IMAP' link and select 'Enable POP Only For Mail That Arrives From Now On'. You could also choose to archive Gmail's copy when you access mail through POP as Gmail offers plenty of storage space.
· In Outlook, go to the Tools menu and select Accounts. The Email Accounts Wizard will ask for details of your new email account. You will need to select POP3 as the server type. Enter the user information requested for.
· Next, you will need to provide details of the server being used. In the Incoming Mail Server field (POP3), you will need to enter pop.gmail.com while for the Outgoing Mail Server you will type smtp.gmail.com. Provide your complete logon information, which will include your full Gmail email address and password.
· Sending mail through Gmail's email servers using Outlook requires authentication. For this, click on the 'More Settings' button and then the 'Outgoing Server' tab. You will need to select 'My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication' as well as 'Use same settings as my incoming mail server'.
· Next, click on the 'Advanced' tab. Under 'Incoming Server (POP3)', you will need to select 'This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL)'. Enter
· The final step is to click on 'Test Account Settings' to make sure that you are able to access mails from your Gmail account.
