Gmail is one of the email services which supports IMAP feature which enables to send and receive emails from Outlook without any ads. Besides one use Outlook for all the business mails and now you can also add your personal gmail account along with it. The advantage of having setup this using IMAP is that when you read a mail or delete a mail, it is synchronized with both the web version of Gmail and the Outlook.
There are lots of features which are different in the new Outlook from Office 2010 than Outlook 2007 which makes it even more desirable to use Outlook for your Gmail.
Having said that, now lets see HOW to Setup Gmail IMAP in Outlook 2010?
Before you can start using Gmail IMAP in Outlook, we need to enable IMAP in Gmail settings.
In Gmail, go to Settings -> Forwarding and POP/IMAP -> Make sure Enable IMAP is checked and click on Save Changes if you made any.
If you are starting the Microsoft outlook 2010 for the first time, you will be seeing the following startup screen, just click Next and choose Yes in the next screen where they ask would you like to configure an email account?
