How To Configure Gmail Account Automatically

Gmail is a widely used free email service offered by Google and Outlook is a personal information manager, with essential features from the reputed Microsoft Company. Synchronization of these popular accounts would help a lot of users worldwide. A lot of tasks fail when Gmail is set to automatic mode which could easily be done through manual settings. Here is one such case, which you need to take care of all by yourself. 

What to do if automatic configuration of your Gmail account doesn’t work?

Outlook support talks about errors that could happen when automatic configuration of Gmail fails. There is absolutely nothing to worry because the guidelines in this article would help you configure your Gmail account manually.

Instructions

If Microsoft Outlook was not able to automatically configure your Gmail account settings, you could still do it manually. Follow the same steps for accessing Gmail with Outlook and proceed with the instructions listed here. 

• Check on either Manually Configure Server Settings or Additional Server Types option.
• Now, click Next and make sure that the option reading Internet E-mail is chosen. 
• Click Next and the Account type should be selected as POP3. 
• Type in pop.gmail.com as the Incoming mail server. 
• For Outgoing mail server (SMTP): type in the text as smtp.gmail.com. Then, enter Gmail username under the Username field provided.
• You need to type in the Gmail password under the Password field and click on the More Settings option now. 
• Next step is to go to the Outgoing Server   and you have to verify that the option reading My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication is checked.
• Next, go to Advanced tab and proceed to next step.
• Under the title Incoming server (POP3): the option saying This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) has to be checked. 
• Set Incoming server (POP3) value as 995; verify the same after entering.
• You need to select Auto option under the field Use the following type of encrypted connection for the option Outgoing server (SMTP).
• Proceed by clicking OK, then Next and finally Finish to end the procedure. 

Hope you found this information on Outlook and Gmail accounts useful to solve the problems you have with automatic configuration settings. Outlook support team would be at your reach 24 hours a day, to clarify any doubts regarding Outlook issues.