Setup Gmail with Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007 and Outlook Express

Tim Selaty — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:35:02 +0000

Google Mail, the beloved backbone of many small business email communications. Gmail is seen as more professional than your average ‘@yahoo.com’ and ‘@aol.com’, but it shares the same favored monthly fee, free. One service Yahoo! does not offer for free is POP while Gmail does. POP does not mean anything to you other than a fancy name for soda? Click the “What’s POP?” tab below. This article will describe and provide picture perfect, simple screenshots for configuring Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007 and Outlook Express to download and view your Gmail emails from your computer. Let’s face it, words just aren’t as simple as pictures.

PLEASE ENABLE POP IN YOUR GMAIL SETTINGS. IF YOU ARE UNSURE HOW TO DO THIS, PLEASE VISIT THE “What’s POP?” TAB.

Outlook 2003
Outlook 2007
Outlook Express
What’s POP?

Configuring Gmail for Outlook 2003

Outlook 2003 is not as straight forward and friendly as Outlook 2007. It requires you to manually select authentication, port numbers, etc. No need to worry, we cover all of that in one straight shot.

Step 1. We setup a new email account. In order to do so, you can find the wizard at Tools -> Email Accounts.

Step 2. The wizard pops up and is ready to preform some magic.

Step 3. Select POP3.

Step 4. Enter your info as follows:

Your Name: anything you want, this is optional
E-mail Address: required, this is your Gmail account. You must include ‘@gmail.com’
Username: same as E-mail Address
Password: your Gmail password
POP3 and SMTP are just the URL’s in which Outlook access’s Google’s Mail for incoming and outgoing.

After setting up everything as demonstrated below, click “More Settings”.

Step 5. In the “Outgoing Server” tab, click “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication” and make sure the radio button “Use same settings as my incoming mail server” is selected.

Step 6. Proceed to the “Advanced” tab. FIRST, check the “This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL)” first for both the “Incoming server (POP3):” and “Outgoing server (SMTP):”. Normally, this should automatically set your ports to 995 and 25 as demonstrated below. If it does not, type it in manually.

Step 7. Finish! When you return to your normal Outlook 2003 screen after the wizard closes, tap the F9 key to start receiving emails!

Configuring Gmail for Outlook 2007

Luckily, Outlook 2007 is very simple to setup.

Step 1. Go to “Tools -> Account Settings…”.

Step 2. On the ‘Email’ tab, click ‘New’ and a new wizard window should appear.

Step 3. In the “Your Name:” field, type in your name. Outook will send messages using this name and when other users receive an email from you, it will use the “Display name” in the “From” field.

In the “E-mail Address:” field, type in your Gmail email account. Please include the “@gmail.com” extension.

And last but not least, type in your Gmail email account password. Do NOT select ‘Manually configure server settings or additional server settings’. Outlook will auto-pilot the configuration process in the next step.

Step 4. The final and easiest step of them all. Simply let the automatic configuration run and Outlook will do the rest of the setting up for you. Once it’s completed and looks like the screen below, click “Finish”.

That’s it!

Note: Outlook should automatically configure it as POP3 for the incoming server.

Configuring Gmail for Outlook Express

Outlook Express is roughly the same as Outlook 2003.

Step 1. Click “Tools -> Accounts”.

Step 2. We want to setup a new “Mail” account. Click “Add -> Mail” on the right side.

Step 3. Next, we enter in our display name. This can be anything. Keep in mind that Outook will send messages using this name and when other users receive an email from you, it will use the “Display name” in the “From” field.

Step 4. Enter your email address. Please make sure you include the ‘@gmail.com’ extension.

Step 5. There is a few different types of connections we can create. The one we want is IMAP. Unlike POP which only downloads emails to Outlook, IMAP actually streams ALL emails including saved, archived, and even folders.

Type in ‘imap.gmail.com’ for the “Incoming Mail” and “smtp.gmail.com” for the “Outgoing mail (SMTP) Server”.

Step 6. Now, we provide out login credentials. Once again, type in your Gmail username INCLUDING the ‘@gmail.com’ extension with your password. Do NOT select “Log on using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)”. After that, you should be greeted with a finish page.

Step 7. After going selecting “Finish” on the past page, you will be returned to the “Internet Accounts” page with the “Mail” tab already selected with your newly created email account to Gmail. On the right side, click “Properties”.

Step 8. Proceed to the “Servers” tab and under “Outgoing Mail Server”, make sure the “My server requires authentication” IS SELECTED. If you skip past this, you WILL NOT be able to connect to Gmail.

Step 9. Next, go to the ‘Advanced’ tab and click “This server requires a secure connection (SSL)” under both Outgoing Mail and Incoming Mail. Upon clicking the checkboxes, it should automatically make your “Outgoing mail (SMTP)” port 25, and the “Incoming mail (IMAP)” to 993. If it does not do this automatically, please manually set them to 25, 993.

Step 10. After that, hit OK. It should bring you back to the “Internet Accounts” screen and click “Close”.

What is POP3?

POP, it’s all the fizz of the modern email. POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3) is the most recent version of a standard protocol for receiving e-mail. POP3 is a client/server protocol in which e-mail is received and held for you by your Internet server. Periodically, you (or your client e-mail receiver) check your mail-box on the server and download any mail, probably using POP3. This standard protocol is built into most popular e-mail products, such as Eudora and Outlook Express.

In Modern English, what does this mean?

This means that POP3 is one of two popular ways to download emails from your email account on the web. There is one draw back, when downloading emails, POP3 tends to delete the emails off the server when they arrive in your Outlook inbox.

This is sometimes desired, other times not. It is my recommendation to turn on the “Leave a copy of messages on the server”. This feature is available in all versions of Outlook for POP3.

You do not need to turn this feature on if you select IMAP instead of POP3, as IMAP streams emails and synchronizes instead of actually downloading them per se.

Leave a copy of messages on the server in Outlook 2007:

Enabling POP3 with Gmail

If you’re experiencing difficulty, or the steps listed on the other tabs just aren’t working, you may not have POP3 enabled. In order to enable Gmail to use POP3, in Gmail just go to ‘Settings’ and choose the ‘Forwarding and POP’ tab.

Click on one of the options to enable POP.

Google AJAX API and jQuery integration, bandwidth free!

Tim Selaty — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:45:29 +0000

As we all know Google has released some pretty nifty things in the past. Today, we’re going to look at one of its most delightful additions for web developers. Google AJAX API.

What is Google AJAX API?

Google’s AJAX APIs let you implement rich, dynamic web sites entirely in JavaScript and HTML. You can add a map to your site, a dynamic search box, or download feeds with just a few lines of JavaScript.

In human terms, it loads common JavaScript frameworks such as MooTools, jQuery, Prototype, jQuery UI and of course even Google Maps without having to have the (.js) files on your server.

That’s great, but what does that mean for me?

Bandwidth, bandwidth, bandwidth, cache headers, and bandwidth.

Because jQuery, like images, must be downloaded onto the users computer before it can be used. If you have a slow server this can be a painful process especially if you use multiple JavaScript libraries.

Google is lightning fast, always. To have one, maybe two less items to download from your server not only saves bandwidth, but it saves you time. You don’t have to go to jQuery and download the latest version, upload it to your server, and type in the path to the (.js) file. You also don’t have to worry about having relative or absolute URLs due because of pretty URLs (seo friendly URLs).

You just add a two lines of code to the head of your template, sometimes even one, and you’re done. Google automatically sends a request to their server to download all of the JavaScript you’re requesting, cache the headers, and return it back to you.

Even better yet, the code is cleaner. You only need one line of code to load in multiple JavaScript libraries instead of your usual 3-5 lines of code.

Enough already, just show me how

Glad you asked. Below is the example XHTML page used to load in jQuery and execute a test function to ensure that it works.

<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">google.load("jquery", "1.3.2");</script>
<script type="text/javascript">$(document).ready(function(){$(".expanded").hide();$("a").click(function(){$(".expanded").fadeIn(600);});})</script>
 
<p class="expanded">Who uses paragraphs anymore?</p>
 
<a href="#">Expand!?</a>

Now, we’ve loaded in jQuery and are able to get cracking away. However, what if we want to add more than one library? Simple. All we do is add another instance of google.load();. Below is an example with both jQuery and jQuery UI.

<script type="text/javascript">
google.load("jquery", "1.3.2");
google.load("jqueryui", "1.7.2");
</script>

Want to use the latest version of jQuery so you never have to update the code to match the latest version? No problem use this instead.

<script type="text/javascript">google.load("jquery", "1.3");</script>

What this says is: “Find the latest stable release that starts with 1.3.x”. In our case it automatically found v1.3.2.

Pretty nifty eh? What’s even better is that jQuery THEMSELVES are using Google’s server to call their own JavaScript library. If you view the source code of http://www.jquery.com/ you’ll see on Line 9 the following code.

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

This is also another way of calling jQuery from Google’s servers.

That’s it! Enjoy one less heavy server request.

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