The account setup is in place in Outlook and when I click send/receive initially it appears to be promising: I get a Gmail prompt for email address/password, then I get a prompt to allow Outlook to read my emails and associate my personal info etc., but at the end I get this failure message.
The following article outlines the process of adding a Google Gmail account to Outlook 2016, both automatically and through manual IMAP configuration. There are two main methods to integrate a Google account in Outlook; within the Outlook client and mail setup via Windows Control Panel.

Set Up Gmail in Outlook 2016. Adding your email account is relatively easy, as it has been in recent versions of Microsoft Office. For most free accounts like Yahoo or Gmail, you just need to.

Hey happy coders! We just wanted to give you a quick heads-up that we just released a few new clients for testing:

Android 5.1.0 (Lollipop), run on a Nexus 4.
Google Apps on Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer 9, 10 and 11.
Outlook 2016 Preview on Windows.

Android Lollipop was released by Google on March 9, 2015 and is still building market share. Currently, Lollipop has an 18% share of the Android market.

Google Apps Sync For Outlook

Google Apps enables businesses to use Google for their email needs, and is similar to Gmail. It’s not quite the same, however, so we have added this client to our list of previews.

Finally, Outlook 2016 Preview allows users to see how Outlook 2016 will render emails ahead of its release date. This client should have virtually no market share, but if you’d like to prepare yourself for the next big thing from Microsoft, add this to your testing list. We’ll switch this over to the official version when it’s released.

Make sure to update your default testing list if you’re not seeing this client appear in your test results.

What clients would you like to see us add in the future? Let us know in the comments below!

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Author: Alex Ilhan

Hailing all the way from England, Alex brings his email development expertise along with an endless stream of cups of tea and British cynicism. Follow him on Twitter: @omgitsonlyalex.

Author: Alex Ilhan

Hailing all the way from England, Alex brings his email development expertise along with an endless stream of cups of tea and British cynicism. Follow him on Twitter: @omgitsonlyalex.

Updated: February 2019

Couple of days ago , we got the following question:

I found online several guides that explain how to setup GMail into Microsoft Outlook on Windows 7 and 10. None of them were targeted at MAC. I just bought a Macbook air with the High Sierra operating system installed, and need some configuration help for GMail for Outlook. Specifically i am looking for the pop or IMAP settings that I’ll need to use in order to connect to the GMail account from the MAC.

Thanks for the question. As many things in Apple land, setting up GMail is relatively a breeze. Read on for the complete details, details for MAC OSX versions prior to High Sierra are similar. The procedure is equally valid for Office 365, as well as the standard Office 2016 and 2019 packages.

Configuring Gmail settings on Outlook 2019 for MAC

Google Apps Mac Outlook 2016 Outlook

Note: If this is the first time you are setting up email in your MAC, you’ll initially be prompted to select an email provider, be it Exchange, ICloud, Yahoo or GMail. After making your selection skip to step 5 below.

Kindly proceed as following:

Open Microsoft Outlook for MAC.
From your header, go ahead and hit on the Outlook menu item.
Hit on Preferences.
Under Personal Settings select Accounts. (Alternatively hit Tools and then Accounts).
Hit the + button in the bottom-left side of the dialog and select New Account or if prompted, hit the Add email account button.
Enter your GMail address. If there is no matching account, you’ll be prompted and asked to manually pick the email provider.

Hit Next.

Enter your Google password and hit Next. Hit the Forgot password in order to recover it.
Now, hit the Sign in to Google button.
Your browser will open and the following screen will appear.

Outlook 2016 Desktop App

Hit Allow to access and modify your Google information, manage your Drive files, contacts and calendar.
In the Launch Application dialog, hit Open Link.

GMail will get automatically configured in Outlook. Depending of your internet connection and mailbox size, the process will take up to 5 minutes to complete.

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Hit Done
Your GMail inbox will be setup in Outlook and visible in the left hand pane.

Your configuration settings are available under Tools >> Accounts.

Additional Settings for Gmail on Outlook

Once you added Outlook you could make some basic configurations to personalize your account.

Define your signature

One of the first things i do when setting up an Outlook account is to personalize my outgoing email signature. Here’s a detailed walk through with the steps.

Cancel email notifications

Annoyed from incoming email notifications, here’s a guide on how to disable desktop alerts on Windows and MAC.

Enjoy your MAC 🙂