Set Up Your Gmail Account to Use IMAP. To setup your Gmail account to use IMAP, sign in to your Gmail account and go to Mail. Click the Settings button in the upper, right corner of the window and select Settings from the drop-down menu. On the Settings screen, click Forwarding and POP/IMAP. Scroll down to the IMAP Access section and select Enable IMAP.
Microsoft Outlook for Mac Add Your Gmail Account to Outlook 2011 Mac Using IMAP To set up your Outlook client to work with Gmail:. Enable IMAP in Gmail. Sign in to Gmail. Click the gear icon in the upper-right and select Gmail settings at the top of any Gmail page.
Click Forwarding and POP/IMAP. Select Enable IMAP.
Configure your IMAP client and click Save Changes. Open Microsoft Office Outlook 2011.
If you have just installed Outlook 2011 it will show in your Dock. If you see a Welcome to Outlook screen, click Add Account. Otherwise click Tools Accounts Add Accountfrom the Apple Menu bar. Click E-mail Account. Now we need to manually enter in our settings similar to the following. Enter your email address, password and user name.
Select IMAP for type. Incoming server: imap.gmail.com / Either 993 (ssl) or 143 (very infrequently 585 (ssl)). Outgoing server: smtp.gmail.com / Either 25 or 465 (ssl) (very infrequently 2525).
Click Add Account. Click More Options. Use Incoming server info for Authentication. Click OK If you've entered everything in correctly, task will be completed successfully and you can close out of the window and begin using your account via Outlook 2011 mac. Import your old POP account into the newly created IMAP account If you currently keep a copy of your mail on the server, then you're done! But if you delete them from the server, then you have to import your old POP mail into your IMAP. Here's how to do it.
Click the Tools tab. Click Import.
Click Outlook Data File (.pst or.olm), and then click the right arrow to continue. Select (.pst) or (.olm). Browse, your backup (.pst) or (.olm) file to import. Done. Now you can check your back up data on outlook. And the very important thing is you have to disable your old POP account from the Outlook, Otherwise they will continue to receive email in the old POP account.
Go to Account settings. Delete your old pop account Setting up your Sent folder properly. From the Accounts window, select Advanced.
Click Folders. From the Sent drop-down, select Sent Mail (Server).
Step 1: Open your IMAP settings. Open Thunderbird. Click Tools Account Settings. Highlight your Gmail address. Step 2: Update the settings on each tab Server settings tab. Check 'Check for new messages at startup.'
. Check 'Check for new messages every 10 minutes.' .
Next to 'When I delete a message,' select Just mark it as deleted. Uncheck 'Clean up ('Expunge') Inbox on Exit.' . Uncheck 'Empty Trash on Exit.' Copies & Folders tab.
In the 'When sending message, automatically' section, uncheck 'Place a copy in.' .
In the 'Drafts and Templates' section for 'Keep message drafts in,' select Other Your Gmail address Gmail Drafts. Junk Settings tab. Uncheck 'Enable adaptive junk mail controls for this account.'
If you aren't using one of the email clients above to read Gmail messages using IMAP, try these tips. Sending.
Don't save sent messages on the server. Sent messages are automatically copied to the Gmail/Sent folder if your email client uses SMTP. Save draft messages on the server if you want your drafts to show when you open Gmail on the web.
Deleting. Don't save deleted messages on the server. You can find messages you delete from an IMAP folder in your 'All Mail' label in Gmail. Don't change your IMAP settings to save deleted messages in the Trash. When you do this, any messages you delete from your email client will get permanently deleted from Gmail in 30 days.
Junk mail & spam. Don't turn on your client's junk mail filters.
Gmail automatically sorts spam and malware before it reaches your client.