How to configure your Webmail Account to Outlook 2013

In our daily routine, we face the problem of slow internet connection, network failure, no access to internet and we are no longer being capable to fetch or send email. These circumstances force us to search for a solution to sort out this problem. We can easily figure out this dilemma by configuring our Gmail IMAP account with Outlook as we all know it is a desktop application & there is no need of web access to execute particular operation. For a web mail account, we need a browser to run application while for desktop application there is no need of such type requirement. One more advantage of doing this configuration is that user will also be able to accumulate its web based email on their local computer & can save important email.

In the new version of Outlook 2013, user will routinely get notifications of new email received in their inboxes, In fact user don't have to wait for finishing point of process to use Outlook. Although there are various web mail applications like yahoo, Gmail & many more, I am considering Gmail here. We all know email application uses protocol such as POP3 & IMAP to complete function simultaneously. Let's have a look of these protocols:

IMAP: - IMAP is Internet Mail Access Protocol used to access email on a remote server without any need of downloading them on your local hard disk. IMAP supports for both online as well as offline mode of operation. The latest version of IMAP protocol is IMAP4.

POP3:- POP3 is acronym as Post office protocol used by local email clients to retrieve mails from a remote server. POP3 allows you to download your emails on your local machine.

Here, I am discussing Steps to configure your Gmail account with Outlook using IMAP.

1 Log in to your Gmail account

2 Go to settings & point to Forwarding POP/IMAP enables your IMAP settings in IMAP access & save changes

3 Now, head towards Outlook to open your Outlook 2013 Account

4 Select the Account settings & open your Outlook account set up & choose POP or IMAP setting by clicking on radio button Yes. Here, I am choosing IMAP 

 5 After Clicking on IMAP radio button add account set up wizard open requesting for your login information (Gmail account) .Enter the credentials and hit on next tab.

6 After Clicking on Next, your Gmail account is configured with outlook.

7 Now, you will be able to open your outlook 2013 account in Gmail inbox.

In this way, you can configure your Outlook account with Gmail to work without interruption of web access. By doing this, you will be able to coordinate only your emails not your Gmail calendars & contacts.