gmail usiong outlook 2003

[VenomXt]

Hey has anyone set up gmail using pop 3 and outlook 2003? im intrested in doing this and was wondering
1. if it can be done
2. a slight walkthrough to save me some troubleshooting time.
3. back up my gmail incase google ever drops the ball. lol i dont know about you but if i lost it i would be screwed.

 

[kcnychief]

I have done it, use it, and it's awesome. Here is a guide...

http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13278

Also make sure you setup your settings within gmail itself to allow POP

 

[ming]

yep yep... that's the link to help you

Use it for my router logs... not sure why, get hundreds of logs everyday in my outlook via gmail.

 

[ming]

oh, one thing that you may need to look at is whether you want to keep a copy of the emails on the server or to move them on to your pc.
I, and I'm sure most others, keep a copy on the server... as backup (since we have like 2.7G of storage on there.)

 

[VenomXt]

done its working thanks.

im goiing to save to a .pst file and leave the mail in gmail as well. that way i have two forms of back ups. hehe.

 

[kcnychief]

.PST's are awesome.

Another good thing to note is that with Office 2003, .PST's are reliable over 2GB (a limit in place with Office XP and older). I have read they have been tested and reliable up as high as 20GB, but I dont know how accurate that is.

 

[ming]

.PST's are awesome.

Another good thing to note is that with Office 2003, .PST's are reliable over 2GB (a limit in place with Office XP and older). I have read they have been tested and reliable up as high as 20GB, but I dont know how accurate that is.

Like what kind of emails are you getting? lol
Just throwing in everything that exists on your C: drive into your calendar or whuchever folder in outlook?

I suppose signing up for junk mail and letting it accumulate would speed things up.

 

[leedogg]

It does work, but there are so many features available on the web version (such as labels, threading, and archiving), that I usually just use the web version. Heck, I even have spare gmail accounts forwarding things to my primary gmail account.

Theres even a way to filter non gmail accounts through gmail for the spam filtering (requires some advanced filter configuration though)

 

[kcnychief]

Like what kind of emails are you getting? lol
Just throwing in everything that exists on your C: drive into your calendar or whuchever folder in outlook?

I suppose signing up for junk mail and letting it accumulate would speed things up.

I get a lot of e-mail, and I save everything.

 

[VenomXt]

deal with accounting people. you get alot of big files hehe.