Add Your Gmail Account to Outlook 2011 Mac Using IMAP

Modified on Wed, 17 May, 2017 at 2:36 PM


To set up your Outlook client to work with Gmail: Watch Video


You can also refer below given steps -


    Step 1. Enable IMAP in Gmail


    Sign in to Gmail.

    Click the gear icon in the upper-right and select Gmail settings at the top of any Gmail page.

    Click Forwarding and POP/IMAP

    Select Enable IMAP.

    Configure your IMAP client and click Save Changes.



Step 2: Open Microsoft Office Outlook 2011. 


If you have just installed Outlook 2011 it will show in your Dock. If you see a Welcome to Outlook screen, click Add Account. Otherwise click Tools > Accounts > Add Account from the Apple Menu bar.


    Click E-mail Account.


    Now we need to manually enter in our settings similar to the following.

    Enter your email address, password and user name.

    Select IMAP for type

    Incoming server : imap.gmail.com / Port 993 (ssl) 

    Outgoing server : smtp.gmail.com / Port 465 (ssl) 

    Click Add Account


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