SWMBO has a gmail email address and I'm trying to add it to a group of email addresses we have in microsoft outlook. It's old, at 2003 but it works. I just can't get it to work in the group which until now all worked fine. The issue relates to verifying whether the port and ssl is correct. It won't send a test email until they're sorted. Interweb suggests we use 995 & 587 with both authentication boxes ticked but it still won't work. It's doing my head in. Anyone know what they should be or can point me towards a link with the correct info in ?

http://www.setup-outlook.com/outlook2003gmail.php

I remember M$ doing something that banjaxed outlook/gmail combinations; but I cant for the life of me remember what it was, or how to fix it.

 

I do feel your pain though.

 

Eventually I switched to Thunderbird, not only easier, but it actually backs up correctly, after reaching a certain size, half my outlook back-ups turned out to be corrupted, whereas I have NEVER had an issue with TB. With the help of TB, I have an email archive going back to about 1999, although it is stored rather than active, and I did cull a lot of unneeded stuff from it.

Tried this?

https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps

 

Apparently Office 2003 and some other older apps don't meet modern security standards.

 

J.

Tried this?

https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps

 

Apparently Office 2003 and some other older apps don't meet modern security standards.

 

J.

 

 

AH!! YES, it wasnt M$ this time, it was Google recoding Gmail and not allowing older versions of OL and OE to connect!!!

http://www.setup-outlook.com/outlook2003gmail.php

 

No that didn't work. I've used 995 & 465 and all it does is say that it can't send a test email because the ports are wrong... :(

Hmm I'll have a go with mine tonight and report back

Well mine works.... with Outlook 2007, and it stops working when I turn "less secure apps" off. I also got snot-o-grams from Google in my gmail account telling me my access mine be violated or some such.

Have you enabled Pop or IMAP within gmail?

Yes.

Have you enabled Pop or IMAP within gmail?

 

 

Yes.

 

i dont think this is a yes or  no answer 

 

its more of an either or kind of answer 

 

all the guides im reading point to the same ports so something is going astray 

 

is it outlook 2003 or outlook express you are using 

Outlook 2003.

I don't know for sure, but I would imagine that something as old as Outlook 2003 only support RC4 encryption on TLS connections; RC4 is now "totally ****ed" and shouldn't be used anywhere, so I'd put money on the fact that Google have disabled that form of encryption on their POP/IMAP/SMTP Gmail frontends.

 

Time for a new mail client, or just use the web interface (which is actually quite nice and works properly, IMAP used to be a pain in the ass if you make any serious use of labels)

Yeah, I've come to the same conclusion. She's going to have to use webmail which seems pretty decent.