Gmail -> Outlook 2k3

MADMIKE · #1 (**permalink**) 03-11-2008, 12:54 AM

I just started using my Gmail account as my main business email and I wanted to import it into my Outlook 2k3. The one thing I have always hated about Gmail was how slow long it takes to load its interface over the web. For this reason I hardly ever used the account.

So I setup my Outlook to connect via POP. I ran into a tiny issue though, when I gathered all my existing mail it downloaded everything I sent as well. I know that Gmail is a different then most Web based Emails where it gathers emails into a "conversation" but is there anyway to have it save my responses into a Sent folder and only keep the relevant incoming mail in my Inbox.

I feel like a major noob.

Xtrema · #2 (**permalink**) 03-11-2008, 12:55 AM

Google = Big Brother

Dark · #3 (**permalink**) 03-11-2008, 02:04 AM

should be something very similar to this:
Thunderbird & GMail: Put sent items in their place | wyckedone.net

its weird... cuz just tonight i was in the middle of getting thunderbird to work with gmail and there you go and post this thread lol

ABC · #4 (**permalink**) 03-11-2008, 02:31 AM

i'm not a fan of gmail. Have you thought about getting your own domain name/website and have an email addy with that?

Prey521 · #5 (**permalink**) 03-11-2008, 02:53 AM

I've searched far and wide for an answer to that question and never found one that doesn't involve setting up a filter. I just leave it be since I never use gmail via web to send emails, only to view if I'm not home and can't RDP to my home PC.

PsyKoh · #6 (**permalink**) 03-11-2008, 03:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Prey521

I've searched far and wide for an answer to that question and never found one that doesn't involve setting up a filter. I just leave it be since I never use gmail via web to send emails, only to view if I'm not home and can't RDP to my home PC.

Which is not really a problem since it only takes a few seconds to set up a filter to mark the message read and send it to the sent folder.

Prey521 · #7 (**permalink**) 03-11-2008, 03:40 AM

^ yeah I never bothered, I have enough filters setup as it is which has at times thrown Outlook into fits lol

DryHeat · #8 (**permalink**) 03-11-2008, 05:11 AM

Instead of POP use IMAP. Getting started with IMAP for Gmail

Prey521 · #9 (**permalink**) 03-11-2008, 05:20 AM

^ Just set it up now, gonna see how much better it is, if at all,thanks!

Prey521 · #10 (**permalink**) 03-11-2008, 05:32 AM

Just tried it, prefer Pop3 but thanks for that tip, I had forgotten that imap was now an option. I'll use it for Outlook at work.

MADMIKE · #11 (**permalink**) 03-11-2008, 05:45 AM

IMAP is for multiple devices right?

Prey521 · #12 (**permalink**) 03-11-2008, 06:05 AM

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Originally Posted by MADMIKE

IMAP is for multiple devices right?

Yes, it's good for that. In Outlook, it creates a separate entry in your Tree as it would if you created an Outlook account for Hotmail. You can't apply Outlook filters to it, which is why I have no use for it, but it's perfect for mobile devices.

Jeff 1.0 · #13 (**permalink**) 03-11-2008, 09:07 AM

GMail kinda sucks. Well, not sucks, but its not any better than any of the other free email services. And why the fugg is it still in Beta?

Dark · #14 (**permalink**) 03-12-2008, 02:54 AM

idk i prefer gmail as opposed to anything else... and now that i have thunderbird setup for all my email accounts its pretty sick

Nismom · #15 (**permalink**) 03-12-2008, 03:14 AM

Why do you have Outlook? Why do you have Outlook 2003?

Pen and stamp > Outlook.

Pony Express > Outlook.

Morse Code > Outlook.

Smoke signals > Outlook.