How do you get a visible inbox for gmail in Outlook?

[Tomv]

I believe I am using Office 2007 and was wondering on how you get the actual
inbox for Gmail to show up as a folder. I have my main providers inbox and I
have a hotmail inbox visible but for none of my other accounts. I can do it
via Windows Live Mail without issue. Appreciate any tips on how to do this.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

When you added the Gmail account, did you add it as a POP3 or IMAP account?
(Needs to be IMAP if you want a separate folder store. You also have to
activate IMAP via Gmail's user settings.)

 

[Tomv]

Thanks man, that worked.

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Best Regards,
Tom Valenzuela

When you added the Gmail account, did you add it as a POP3 or IMAP account?
(Needs to be IMAP if you want a separate folder store. You also have to
activate IMAP via Gmail's user settings.)

 

[VanguardLH]

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I believe I am using Office 2007 and was wondering on how you get the actual
inbox for Gmail to show up as a folder. I have my main providers inbox and I
have a hotmail inbox visible but for none of my other accounts. I can do it
via Windows Live Mail without issue. Appreciate any tips on how to do this.

Windows Live Mail creates a separate message store for all accounts
regardless of the type of account. Outlook aggregates all POP3 and
Exchange accounts together into one Inbox, and each IMAP and HTTP
account gets its own message store (with another Inbox).

In Outlook, you will have to create new folders for each account, like
"Inbox - <accountname>", and use a rule that checks from which account
an e-mail was received and move it to the appropriate folder.

Gmail now allows IMAP access which would create a separate message store
in Outlook. I did have a problem in Windows Live Mail with Gmail using
IMAP until I changed the root folder to [Gmail].