adding an http e-mail account in Outlook 2007

[Rachel Koch]

I have a few Gmail (by Google) http e-mail accounts I would like to add to my
outlook 2007, and am having trouble doing this. I have tried using the
address http://www.gmail.com and the secure url that pops up in the window
https://www.google.com/accounts/Ser...=html&zy=l&ltmpl=ca_tlsosm_video&ltmplcache=2

Both times it will tell me it has successfully added the e-mail account, but
then will not sync with it. When I click Send/Receive, the second task
errors out. Can anyone help?

 

[IanW]

From your description it is hard to tell exactly what you've done, in part
because the link does not work - presumably it is tied to you being logged
in. Have you:
- enabled POP in your Gmail account?
- set up Outlook to look to use pop.gmail.com and smtp.gmail.com?

Check out "Gmail Help" and then look for "POP" and Outlook 2003 for some
pretty detailed info.

And if you've done all that, post more details with error messages.

Good luck.

--Ian

 

[VanguardLH]

in message

I have a few Gmail (by Google) http e-mail accounts

No, you don't. You don't have any Gmail HTTP accounts. Gmail
provides a webmail interface to their e-mail accounts. That is NOT an
HTTP account. That is a browser interface to your account. HTTP
accounts are defined in local e-mail client to communicate a command
set between it and the mail host via HTTP and is NOT a webmail
interface to your account. Gmail does not use HTTP to communicate to
its e-mail account with a local e-mail client (as does Microsoft with
their Hotmail accounts that use HTTP over which to send commands using
the old WebDAV scripting language or the newer DeltaSync protocol).

You either have the webmail interface via browser to your Gmail
account or you have POP or IMAP access to your Gmail accounts. You
are asking about using Outlook so you will have to use POP or IMAP to
access your Gmail accounts when using a local e-mail client.

I would like to add to my
outlook 2007, and am having trouble doing this. I have tried using
the
address http://www.gmail.com and the secure url that pops up in the
window
https://www.google.com/accounts/Ser...=html&zy=l&ltmpl=ca_tlsosm_video&ltmplcache=2

Both times it will tell me it has successfully added the e-mail
account, but
then will not sync with it. When I click Send/Receive, the second
task
errors out. Can anyone help?

So why aren't you following the instructions at Google's web help
pages for their Gmail service to configure POP or IMAP access to those
accounts? When you visit www.gmail.com, there is a Help link right
there on that page. The very first page of Help has links to POP and
IMAP access setup.