If you can’t get Windows Mail / Outlook to get everything set up properly with its defaults, go back to this link and you’ll get a very helpful list of specific incoming and outgoing mail servers, ports, channels and much more to make setting up just about any email client a breeze. Note the very bottom link: Configuration instructions. You might want to track my settings above too, as desired, but the key one is to ensure that you have allowed IMAP access for your account. Lots of choices, but the most important setting is the first: Make sure that you have “ IMAP is enabled“, as shown. You want to choose “Forwarding and POP/IMAP”. In Settings there are a bunch of different categories of options and preferences. To start, though, log in to your Gmail account and go to “ Settings” off the Gear menu on the top right. As I said, it’s easy, there’s even a default account for that. No worries, though, I’ll help you start by tweaking the appropriate setting on the Gmail side, then we’ll jump into Windows Mail and get it all set up with Gmail. The trick is that you need to enable remote IMAP access from within the Gmail settings before you can be successful, so that means that there are settings to tweak on both sides of this. The good news is that Microsoft has done a splendid job of making it easy to use Windows Mail (and it’s confusing: In Windows Mobile, it’s known as “Outlook Mail”, but in regular Win10 Outlook is a different program included with Microsoft Office) to work with Google Mail (aka Gmail) (yeah, that’s a lot of aka’s isn’t it? No wonder this stuff’s all so confusing).
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