When you’re done with that step, you can add your Gmail account to your Outlook platform. If it’s already checked, you don’t have to do anything.
Your first step is to enable the IMAP protocol for your Gmail account, which is a fancy name for a standard email protocol that allows you to access and manipulate messages.
This is handy if you want to rely on Gmail for most of your email purposes, but you want to make use of the organizational functions or UI layout of Outlook.īefore you can start the syncing process, you’ll need to adjust a few settings in Gmail to make sure it works smoothly with Outlook.
