Adding a Google Apps Email Account to Outlook.com
The new Outlook.com is out from Microsoft and it has quietly made a splash with a reported 1 million users in 6 hours. I am a Google Apps user and I have several email accounts that are not your traditional yourname@gmail.com but are myname@mydomain.com and are hosted on Gmail servers. The set up for regular Gmail accounts is fairly straight forward, the setting up an Google Apps account is not as intuitive for the average guy. Here is how you get it started.
First, go out to http://outlook.com and sign in with your Microsoft ID. If you don’t have one, now would be the time to get one.
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| From settings, select More mail settings. |
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| Under Options, select Sending/receiving email from other accounts |
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| Select Add an email account |
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| Type in your Google Apps email account and password. DO NOT SELECT NEXT. Click on the Advanced options |
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In the POP3 user name box, complete the user name with the full email address. In this example, just copy Email address and paste it into POP3 user name. Change the Incoming mail server to pop.gmail.com. Leave the (SSL) box checked. The second check box is up to you. Click and next and you are done |
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| Now I can group my Google Apps Email accounts into a single folder and make it a one stop shop for getting all my gmail in one place! |
Enjoy the new Outlook.com
John, I have honestly always struggled with using the Google Email UI. I just don’t like it. By using this interface for gmail, I find it easier. You may not.
It is also a way of having all 3 of my Google apps accounts in a single, easy to view interface. Very easy to see and use. Have you ever gotten lost switching between google gmail accounts? I guess I could have just forwarded all the mail to one account, but then I lose the ability to select the ‘sent by’ account.
Now in full disclosure, since the writing of this, my Google apps accounts are working great with Outlook.com. My true gmail acccount is not. It will not connect properly. It worked at first, now it is broken.
OK, that’s simple enough, and Outlook.com looks to be vastly improved over the old hotmail.com, but what’s the main reason to use it for Google apps accounts? Just trying to figure out why I would want to do this.
Agreed. I as well picked up some new address that I have at most sites as well as a new spam address. It’s a good start, but they have a ways to go yet.
Been playing with Outlook.com this evening so far I am liking, Linked a couple of domain emails, added a couple of aliases (good to grab while outlook.com is young.) Generally seems to be a good improvement over live.com and hotmail’s dated interface. Downside calendar and skydrive are in old format still and the links are not intuitive.