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I decided to make a tutorial for those of us that need to set-up Google’s IMAP mail service in Outlook 2003. I hope this helps some of you guys out.

• Make sure POP access is turned on for your Gmail account.
• Select Tools/E-mail accounts from the menu in Outlook.
• Make sure add a new e-mail account is selected.
• Click Next.
• Choose POP3 as the Server Type.
• Click Next.
• Enter your Gmail account details in the Internet E-mail Settings (POP3) dialog.
  • Type your full name under your name.
  • Type your Gmail e-mail address under E-mail Address.
  • Type your full Gmail address under User Name: as well.
  • Type your Gmail password under Password.
  • Type pop.gmail.com under Incoming mail server (POP3)
  • Type smtp.gmail.com under Outgoing mail server (SMTP)

• Click More Settings.
• Go to the Outgoing Server tab.
• Make sure My Outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication is checked.
• Leave Use same settings as my incoming mail server selected.
• Go to Advanced tab.
• Make sure This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) is checked under both Incoming server (POP3) : and Outgoing server (SMTP).
• Type 465 under outgoing server (SMTP).
  • If the number under Incoming server (POP3) : has not been changed to 995 automatically, enter 995 there.

• Click OK.
• Click Next.
• Click Finish.

I will be adding a tutorial on how to Access Gmail with Outlook 2007 soon.