POP Option Enabling in Gmail:
■First of all login to your Gmail account
■Then click on “Settings” option which can be seen on right top of your screen
■There you will find “Forwarding and POP / IMAP” option, click on it
■There an option i.e. “Enable POP for All Mails” or “Enable POP for Mail” should be clicked
■Now an action would be asked to choose after getting POP access from Gmail. Choose appropriate one that suits your need
■Check “Configure your POP client” and then a button saying “Save Changes” should be pressed.
Configuration in Microsoft Outlook 2007
■We consider that you have already opened Microsoft Outlook 2007, click Tools Menu
■Click an option “E-mail Account”
■There you will see an option “Add a new e-mail account” select it and then click on the button “New”
■There you will be asked by the system to select server type. POP3 or POP option must be selected ….. then click on the option “Next”
■Now system will ask for necessary setting. Put on your desired / required setting including email address and password of your email
■Write “pop.gmail.com” as your incoming mail server and as the settings of outgoing mail server “smtp.gmail.com” must be written in the required field
■Then click on the button that says “More Settings . . .”
■Then click on the tab saying “Outgoing Server” and an option saying “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication” must be checked by you. It will increase security and a password will be required to even send a single email from this Microsoft Outlook in addition to receiving email
■Then on the same screen, you will see a tab saying “Advanced”, click on it
■Here you will have to change port numbers for your incoming and outgoing mail server but first you need to check the appropriate box before assigning any value
■Incoming server should be set a port value as “465” and “995” port number should be set to outgoing mail server
■That’s it. You are done and finally have set up Gmail in Microsoft Outlook 2007.
