Add Your Gmail Account to Outlook 2010 using POP

Are you excited about the latest version of Outlook, and want to get it setup with your Gmail accounts?  Here’s how you can easily add your Gmail account using POP to Outlook 2010.
Getting Started
Log into your Gmail account an go to your settings page. Under the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab make sure POP is enabled.  You can choose to enable POP access for all new mail that arrives from now on, or for all mail in your Gmail account.  On the second option, we suggest you chose keep Gmail’s copy in the Inbox so you can still access your emails on the Gmail server.

Add Your Account to Outlook 2010
If you haven’t run Outlook 2010 yet, click Next to start setup and add your email account.

Select Yes to add an email account to Outlook.  Now you’re ready to start entering your settings to access your email.

Or, if you’ve already been using Outlook and want to add a new POP account, click File and then select Add Account under Account Information.

Outlook 2010 can often automatically find and configure your account with just your email address and password, so enter these and click Next to let Outlook try to set it up automatically.

Outlook will now scan for the settings for your email account.

If Outlook was able to find settings and configure your account automatically, you’ll see this success screen.  Depending on your setup, Gmail is automatically setup, but sometimes it fails to find the settings.  If this is the case, we’ll go back and manually configure it.

Manually Configure Outlook for Gmail
Back at the account setup screen, select Manually configure server settings or additional server types and click Next.

Select Internet E-mail and then click Next.

Enter your username, email address, and log in information. Under Server information enter in the following:

• Account Type: POP3
• Incoming mail server: pop.gmail.com
• Outgoing mail server: smtp.gmail.com

Make sure to check Remember password so you don’t have to enter it every time.

After that data is entered in, click on the More Settings button.

Select the Outgoing Server tab, and check My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication.  Verify Use same settings as my incoming mail server is marked as well.

Next select the Advanced tab and enter the following information:

• Incoming Server (POP3): 995
• Outgoing server (SMTP): 587
• Check This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL)
• Set Use the following type of encrypted connection to TLS

You also might want to uncheck the box to Remove messages from the server after a number of days.  This way your messages will still be accessible from Gmail online.

Click OK to close the window, and then click Next to finish setting up the account.  Outlook will test your account settings to make sure everything will work; click Close when this is finished.

Provided everything was entered in correctly, you’ll be greeted with a successful setup message…click Finish.
 
Gmail will be all ready to sync with Outlook 2010.  Enjoy your Gmail account in Outlook, complete with fast indexed searching, conversation view, and more!

Conclusion
Adding Gmail using the POP setting to Outlook 2010 is usually easy and only takes a few steps.  Even if you have to enter your settings manually, it is still a fairly simple process. You can add multiple email accounts using POP3 if you wish, and if you’d like to sync IMAP accounts, check out our tutorial on setting up Gmail using IMAP in Outlook 2010.

How to Set Up Outlook 2007 for Windows to Send and Receive Email (Wizard)

1. Open Outlook. Select Account Settings... from the Tools menu.
   
2. On the E-mail tab, click New.
   
3. Select "Manually configure server settings or additional server types" and click Next >.
   
4. Select Internet E-mail and click Next >.
   
5. Enter the following information for E-mail Accounts.
• Your Name: Enter the name you wish recipients to see when they receive your message.
• Email Address:This is the address that your contacts' email program will reply to your messages. This is also the address that will get recorded in your contacts' address book if they add you as a contact.
• Account Type: POP3
• Incoming mail server: Enter pop3.ivenue.com
• Outgoing mail server (SMTP): Enter smtp.ivenue.com
• User Name: Enter your full e-mail address
• Password: If you wish for Outlook to save your password, check the box labeled Remember Password and enter your password in the text field.
• Click More Settings...


6. Click on the Outgoing Server tab, and check the box labeled My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication. Then choose to Use same settings as my incoming mail server
   
7. Click on the Advanced tab.
   
   • Under Incoming Server (POP3), the port number should be set to 110.
   • Under Outgoing Server (SMTP), the port number should be set to 587.
   
   
8. Click OK
9. Click Next. Click Finish.

Oracle 11g on Windows 7 OS

I finally got around to installing Oracle 11g on Windows 7 Professional Edition, 64-bit (click here for Oracle 11g Release 2 on Windows 7). The only catch was that the Oracle 11g (11.1.0.7) installer validates only against Windows 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 or 6.0. Windows 7 is actually Windows Code Base 6.1, as seen in this screen shot after successful installation:

With that knowledge, first you should download the software from Oracle’s web site. You should unzip the contents into another directory. I used a C:\Stage directory. Inside that you’ll find the database directory, and it should look like this:

1. Click on the setup icon to launch the installer. You should then see the following screen shot. Enter a password for the SYS and SYSTEM users (if you’re coming to Oracle from a MySQL background they’re like the root user in MySQL). When you’ve entered a matching password in both fields, the Install button becomes active. Click the Install button to proceed.

2. In this screen, you’re prompted for your Email and MetaLink Password. If this is a test database (a throw away instance without any real data), you can uncheck the box for automatic security updates. You should enter a password even for test databases. Click the Next button to proceed.

3. You’ll only see this failure if you’re installing Oracle 11g (11.1.0.7) on a Windows 7 operating system, which is actually version 6.1 according to their code control numbering. You simply check the Checking operating system requirements … and Checking service pack requirements … to override the prerequisite checks. Another error that you may encounter is related to networking. It is a warning and occurs when you’re operating system uses DHCP to get its IP address. You really should configure the operating system with a static IP address. You can set a static IP address in Windows 7 with these instructions.

The checked boxes now say User Verified, which means we’re all really powerful, aren’t we? Click the Next button to proceed.

4. At this point, you’ll get a Windows System Alert asking you to unblock the installer’s javaw.exe program. You must grant the access or forget about installing Oracle 11g. Click the Allow access button to proceed.

5. The dialog tells you what will be installed. Click the Install button to proceed.

6. This is the installation progress dialog. It’s running while the Oracle Installer lays down the operating system files for the database management system. It takes about 8 to 9 minutes, so stretch your legs if you want to take a break. When it’s 100% complete, click the Next button to continue.

7. After the installation, you’ll see the first of the Configuration Assistants, which is the Oracle Net Configuration Assistant (unfortunately, I didn’t capture that screen shot but I provided a temporary substitute until I re-install it). Provided everything happens successfully, it’ll move to the next step without your intervention.

You should receive another Windows Security Alert (aren’t we glad that I already disabled UAC). You need to click the Allow access button to let java.exe proceed with the installation.

8. This one is exactly where it belongs. It means you have approximately a 5 to 6 minute break while a sample database instance is cloned for you. The cloning process copies a sample compressed database from the installation staging area to your local operating system.

It will prompt you if you want to open any of the other scheme. You can skip this and do it later, or click Password Management to open those scheme and set passwords for them.

9. The last Configuration Assistant is the Oracle Configuration Manager Configuration. It’s a short process, it configures the cloned sample database against your installation names and passwords. When it completes it enables the Next button. Click the Next button to complete the installation.

10. You’ve finally reached almost the end of the installation. Click the Exit button on this dialog to proceed to the “are you sure” dialog box.

Confirm you meant it, by clicking the Yes button on the final dialog message below.

You’ve successfully installed Oracle 11g on Windows 7.