How to add Gmail email account to Microsoft email client?

Gmail is a very popular email service nowadays. When we access Gmail on web browsers, we always need internet access to sign in and check our emails. Gmail can be used with email clients such as Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird etc. What is the advantage of using email clients? Configuring internet emails to email clients are better because you can read email already downloaded offline, without internet connection. In this post we will see how to add Gmail account in Outlook and how to resolve the problem encountered during setup where Outlook fails to login to Gmail and in sending test email.

How to add Gmail email account to Microsoft email client?

Steps to add Gmails to Outlook email client:

Open Outlook
Go to TOOLS > ACCOUNT SETTINGS >CLICK "NEW"
Choose "Microsoft Exchange /POP3/IMAP/HTTP"
Click on "Manual Configuration option"
Choose "Internet Email"
Enter Gmail Account details

Your Name
Your Email Address
Account Type= IMAP or POP
Incoming Mail Server = imap.gmail.com
Outgoing Mail Server = smtp.gmail.com
User name = your fill Gmail address
Password = Gmail account password

Click "More Settings"
Click "Outgoing Server" tab > enable "My outgoing server requires authentication" and select "use same settings as my incoming mail server"
Click "Advanced" tab.

If IMAP was selected earlier, then:

Incoming Server (IMAP) = 993, encryption =SSL
Outgoing Server (SMTP) = 465, encryption =SSL

Click OK and "Test account Settings"

All the details for Gmails entered so far to setup with Outlook is correct, yet Outlook is not able to log in to Gmail and send a test email. We get frequent prompts to enter the username and password. The problem is not the configuration on Outlook but Google is denying access to Outlook.

To resolve the Outlook sign in problem on Gmail, do the following.