Unfortunately I figured out what I was doing wrong. I didn't realize how
imap works and erased all my email from my Gmail account. I think I got it
back though. Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Christopher Chaltain
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 5:02 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Gmail with IPhone and Outlook

I usually just go to Gmail's help pages, which I find pretty good. Check out
http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77689 to see if it
doesn't help out.

On 23/08/12 23:52, Tom Lange wrote:
> Hi,
> I can use GMail with IMAP on my iPhone and it works beautifully, but, 
> for some reason, in Outlook 2007 on my Toshiba laptop running Windows 
> 7 home premium it's a bust for me.  Last time I fiddled with this, 
> which was maybe a month ago, I had a hell of a time configuring 
> Outlook for GMail with IMAP and it just wouldn't happen.  I finally 
> just put the matter aside for a while until somebody could give me the 
> proper settings.  If anybody has the right settings for Outlook, IMAP 
> and GMail, drop me a line or two off-list, please.  I'd really 
> appreciate it.  Thanks in advance.
> 
> Tom
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Diakogeorgiou"
> <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 6:38 PM
> Subject: RE: Gmail with IPhone and Outlook
> 
> 
>> I am using imap but am not receiving the messages in Outlook. I 
>> obviously need to recheck my settings.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
>> Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain
>> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 9:30 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Gmail with IPhone and Outlook
>>
>> Are you using IMAP or POP? If you're using IMAP you get this already 
>> since both Outlook and your iPhone will be accessing the same 
>> database where the messages are stored.
>>
>> If you're using POP you can do this by configuring the email client 
>> not to delete the messages from the server. The client would download 
>> the messages but leave them on the server so you could download them 
>> with a client on another system. When I used POP, I'd have the iPhone 
>> download the messages but leave them on the server. I'd have Outlook 
>> download them and delete them from the server. Therefore, I could 
>> check messages I hadn't seen with Outlook yet on my iPhone, but I'd 
>> keep all of my history on my PC with Outlook. Note this was before I 
>> switched to IMAP.
>> Also, I was using a Nokia cell phone and Thunderbird instead of an 
>> iPhone and Outlook, but the idea is the same.
>>
>> On 23/08/12 20:15, John Diakogeorgiou wrote:
>>> Hi:
>>>
>>> I would like to be able to get a copy of my Gmail messages both on 
>>> the Iphone and Outlook 2007. Is it possible to do this by changing a 
>>> setting?
>>>
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