Gmail in Outlook Express

Are you one of the many who has recently signed up for a Gmail account? Since you've done that, have you started to miss the way you handled email in Outlook Express? Some of you may have gone to Gmail because of the online email storage that comes with it, but would you rather use Outlook Express and go back to a screen-reader friendly way to get email?

To send or receive email from your Gmail account in Outlook Express, follow these steps.

1. First, you need to make sure the POP3 access is activated in your Gmail account. To do this, go to Gmail and click on the Settings link at the top of the page. Choose the Forwarding and POP tab and make sure either the "Enable POP for all mail" or "Enable POP only for mail that arrives from now on" is selected. (You will probably just want to choose the "from now on" option, because all the email that you receive from this point on will go to Outlook Express). Next, you need to choose what you want to do with the email that is accessed with POP. You can either keep Gmail's copy in the Inbox, archive Gmail's copy or delete Gmail's copy. This option is strictly up to you. Once you have chosen that, click on Save Changes.
   
   
2. Open Outlook Express and hit ALT+T or click on Tools, then arrow down to or click on Accounts.
   
   
3. Click on the Add button and choose Mail.
   
   
4. Type in your name and tab to, or click Next.
   
   
5. Enter your Gmail email address. Click, or tab to Next.
   
   
6. Screen reader users will use the tab key to move through the various options on the following screen. You need to make sure that POP3 is selected under the "My incoming mail server is a (blank) server" space.
   
   
7. Type in "pop.gmail.com" (without the quotations) under the "Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP or HTTP) server:"
   
   
8. Type in "smtp.gmail.com" (without the quotations) under the "Outgoing mail (SMTP) server:" spot. Click Next when done.
   
   
9. Now, you're going to enter your full Gmail email address under the "Account name" and enter your Gmail password under "Password."
   
   
10. Click, or tab to Next and then Finish.
    
    
11. Now you're going to highlight the new pop.gmail.com account, and choose Properties from there. Screen reader users will tab to the properties button. Go to the Servers tab.
    
    
12. Ensure the line that says "My server requires authentication" is checked under the Outgoing Mail Server section.
    
    
13. Click on, or arrow over to the Advanced tab.
    
    
14. Make sure that the place that says "This server requires a secure connection (SSL)" is checked under the Outgoing mail (SMTP): and also under the Incoming mail (POP3): choices.
    
    
15. Once that is all checked, type in the number "465" under the Outgoing server (SMTP): place and make sure "995" is typed in under the Incoming server (POP3) section.
    
    
16. Click OK and Close.

Yeah, that was a lot of steps! Once you get through all of that, everything will be set up and you can start using your Gmail account in Outlook Express and get back to the way you used to do email.