Add Your Gmail To Windows Live Mail
The cool thing with email these days is you can pretty much use any client you want and still be able to check most of your web based accounts. Most POP accounts such as hotmail or Gmail are able to be checked with any client. Here we will take a look at how to get your Gmail into Windows Live Mail.
** Note: This is for Windows Live Mail and not Windows Mail which replaced Outlook Express and is included in Vista. Windows Live Mail is a separate download via Windows Live Services. The Geek wrote a great article on setting up Gmail for Vista Mail**
For checking a Gmail account with different clients you do need to make sure your Gmail has POP enabled. Go into your Gmail \ Settings \ Forwarding and POP/IMAP and enable POP to for all mail which will transfer the entire inbox or just the mail you get from this point forward. Also you can choose weather or not to keep a copy on Google’s servers.
The first thing you will want to do is log in to your Live account if you haven’t already and click on “Add an e-mail account”.
Next enter in the account information for the email address, password and Display Name you want include and click on Next.
You then get a message advising you to follow instructions on setting up POP in Gmail. Just ignore that because we already set it up at the beginning of this article. You may want to check this account as your default however.
After everything is set up you will start getting messages from your Gmail account. Pretty slick!
We have covered setting up the major email clients using either POP or IMAP for Gmail. Here is a list so you can use your favorite client with Gmail.
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It would be far more easy to use GMail's "forward" feature than to use POP polling, and this would include less steps.
As GMail offers all you need, the other way round (Live Mail TO GMail) the whole stuff would make more sense, but sad enough Microsoft doesn't allow forwarding to a GMail account, and POP polling is restricted to paying customers.
I actually tried this a while back but removed my gmail from Windows Live Mail shortly afterward. If this worked with IMAP I would love it. I want to be able to log into my gmail online from time to time, say if I am not at home. I do still use Windows Live Mail for my two hotmail accounts though. For my gmail account I use Thunderbird and I have my other addresses (from ISP and domain related) auto forwarded to my gmail. So in summary I have around 6 different email addressed that are funneled into two email clients. I would love to be able to consolidate everything into one but I just havn't been able to find a solution that is right for me.
@Joe Vautour: If you check the box "Manually configure server settings for e-mail account." in the add account dialog as shown in the screen shot you should be able to set up gmail IMAP.
Hi
Thanks for your useful share.
Omer KARADENIZ
MCITP
Nice, I prefer Live Mail to Thunderbird so might as well clean things up!
doesn't work
I've already configured one gmail account but can't remember exactly how
Oh ok, just had to set out port to 465 and in port to 995 and check both ssl options.
Not sure if it's related but couldn't get access to my other gmail account (I'm using a wi-fi so sometimes it disconnects)
This was very helpful. Thank you very much.
Followed the settings. My gmail account does not show (in windows live mail) my old email as well as my sent items?????????????????????????
How the heck do you stop Windows Live Mail from asking for your password for Gmail all the time. I set up the account and after I am done it keeps asking for my password and it is pissing me off! The fricking password is correct! Any help here would be greatly appreciated.