How to Configure Outlook 2007/2010 to check your Gmail Account The first step is to turn on IMAP in your Google

Account: 1. Log in here: https://gmail.com 1. username: pid@vt.edu, password: your Google password (different from your PID password) 2. Click on the gear in the upper right corner and choose settings 3. Click on Forwarding and POP/IMAP 4. Choose Enable IMAP and click Save Changes

You can log out of Gmail. The next steps are down in Outlook. Note: It is assumed that you already have some type of account setup in Outlook. If you do not, then you will prompted to setup an account the first time you run Outlook. For Outlook 2007 Go to Tools -> Account Settings For Outlook 2010 Go to the File tab, click Account Settings, Account Settings

From this point, both versions of Outlook will look the same. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. From the E-mail tab, click on New... Select E-mail Account, and click Next Select Manually configure settings or additional server types, click Next Choose Internet E-mail, click Next Fill out the information: 1. Your Name: Your_Name 2. E-mail Address: your_PID@vt.edu 3. Account Type: Choose IMAP 4. Incoming mail server: imap.gmail.com 5. Outgoing mail server (SMTP): smtp.gmail.com 6. User name: your_PID@vt.edu (note: make sure that you add the "@vt.edu") 7. Password: your_Google_password 6. Click on the More Settings... button 7. From the General tab, Give your account a name (ex. Google) 8. Click on the Outgoing Server tab and check: My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication

9. Click on the Advanced tab, change the following settings: 1. Under Incoming server (IMAP), Use the following type of encrypted connection: Choose SSL 2. Under Outgoing server (SMTP), Use the following type of encrypted connection: Choose TLS 3. Change the Outgoing server (SMTP) port number (set to 25 by default) to 587

10. Click OK to close the Advanced settings 11. Click Next (Outlook will test the settings) 12. Click Finish Your Google account will now show up on the Folder List. Expand the new account, and you will see the inbox. If you expand the [Gmail] folder, you will see the Sent Mail, Trash, and Spam folders.