This tutorial will show you how to use a gmail account as the outgoing email server from Outlook. This is most useful for situations when your ISP filters or blocks outgoing email. Verizon will not allow any emails that do not contain an @verizon.com email address to originate from their network. Another use for this is for people with laptops who need to send email from multiple locations and hence ISPs.
Here are the steps you should follow:
- Your first step is to go to Gmail. After you are click on the sign up for gmail link.
- 2 Fill in all of the required information including your cell phone number. At the present time this is a gmail requirement. Now enter the code that you will receive on your mobile phone.
- You will be presented with another form. Fill it out. Remember that you need to use your everyday email in the secondary email field. The other fields are up to you.
- Great you have successfully setup your account. Click on the "I'm ready - show me my account" link.
- You are presented with another page showing a summary of what you can do. Click on the "Sweet! Go to my inbox" link.
- Phew! You have made it to the main gmail account page. Please click on the Settings link in the top right section of your page.
- Click on the Accounts Tab. Now click on the "Add another email address" link.
- Enter in your real email address here. Gmail will send a confirmation email to you. Please go to Outlook and check your email. Click on the link in that email which will take you to a gmail confirmation webpage. From there go back to gmail by clicking here.
- Click on Settings once again then go to Accounts. Your last step is to click on the "make default" link to the right of your real email address. The reason that you do all of this is so that people see your real email address in the sender and reply to fields. If you did not do this when users replied to your email they would send it to this new gmail account.
- In Outlook go to the tools menu then E-Mail Accounts. Select the account that you want to change and then click here.
