Setting up Gmail account

Yes that's correct PA Bear.

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
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Looks like you set it up as an IMAP account, not a POP3 account, yes?

Wyman wrote:
Hi Bruce,

Everything is set up correctly and functioning. I just need to know how
to
save the drafts to the Gmail/Drafts folder. See attached.

Wyman


"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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Make sure you follow all the instructions at each of these links.

1: Enabling POP in your Gmail account:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...y?answer=13273

2: Configuring your email client for Gmail: Outlook Express and Outlook
2002:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...276&topic=1556

Set up your Outlook Express client to work with Gmail:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...y?answer=76147

See...

Recommended IMAP client settings - Gmail Help:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...n&answer=78892

Expand & read the OE section (pertains to Sending and OE's Sent Items
folder), then read the suggestions, which include...

- Do NOT save sent messages on the server. [1] If your client is sending
mail through Gmail's SMTP server, your sent messages will be automatically
copied to the [Gmail]/Sent Mail folder.

- DO save draft messages on the server. If you want your drafts in your mail
client to sync correctly with Gmail's web interface, set your client to save
drafts to the [Gmail]/Drafts folder. [1]

If the account's configured properly in OE, copies of messages sent via
Gmail's SMPT server will not be stored in OE's local Sent Items folder, and
drafts will not be saved to OE's local Drafts folder.

For further assistance, please post here instead:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/...0a1429ff&hl=en

====================
[1] See OE Tools | Accounts | Mail | [gmail IMAP] | Properties | IMAP tab

--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002


Wyman wrote:
Yes that's correct PA Bear.

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
Looks like you set it up as an IMAP account, not a POP3 account, yes?

Wyman wrote:
Everything is set up correctly and functioning. I just need to know how
to save the drafts to the Gmail/Drafts folder. See attached.

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Make sure you follow all the instructions at each of these links.

1: Enabling POP in your Gmail account:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...y?answer=13273

2: Configuring your email client for Gmail: Outlook Express and Outlook
2002:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...276&topic=1556

Set up your Outlook Express client to work with Gmail:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...y?answer=76147

On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 21:57:14 -0500, Wyman wrote:

OK I've set up my account per the instructions on Google's site. However I can't configure one of the recommended IMAP client settings. It says to set OE to save drafts to the [Gmail]/Drafts folder but I can't seem to find where to do that. Can someone please let me know where that setting is? I've checked in the options and properties of the IMAP account and still don't see.

Here's the link for the recommended settings so you can see for yourself.

What link?

Anyway, I've just played around, a bit. In MSOE, Tools | Options | Accounts,
and selecting the Gmail account. In "Account Properties", there is an "IMAP"
tab. When I leave the "Root folder path: [ ]" field blank, I get a folder
structure with a sub folder labeled, "[Gmail]", and it shows a duplicate
list of the basic folders, except for the Inbox. Something like:

[-]GMail
|-Inbox
|-Sent Items
|-Drafts
|-Deleted Items
|-[-][Gmail]
|-Sent Mail
|-Drafts
|-Starred
|-Trash

However, when I enter, "[Gmail]" in the field, and refresh the folder list,
it changes, thus:

[-]Gmail
|-Inbox
|-Sent Items
|-Drafts
|-Starred
|-Trash
|-Sent Mail

In first folder list, the icon adjacent to "Sent Items" and "Drafts" is the
MSOE default, while the icons adjacent to the "[Gmail]/Sent Mail" and
"[Gmail]/Drafts" is the MSOE user created folder icon. And email composed in
MSOE, and saved, is stored in the MSOE default "Drafts" folder, and the
"Drafts" folder online. Nothing goes into the "[Gmail]/Drafts" folder
online.

In the second folder list all the email in the online "Sent Mail" folder
shows up in the user created "Sent Mail" folder.

I made one more change: On the IMAP tab, in addition to entering, "[Gmail]"
in the "Root folder path:" field, I put a check in the Store special folders
on IMAP server" box, and changed one of the custom fields under "Special
Folders". The boxes now read:

Sent Items path: [Sent Mail]
Drafts path: [Drafts]

After refreshing the folders list again, the tree looks thus:

[-]Gmail
|-Inbox
|-Sent Mail
|-Drafts
|-Starred
|-Trash

I did some cleanup of labels online, as well. I've not used IMAP accounts
that much, and I find the synchronization to the folder labels a bit
confusing between the MSOE default folders (unique icons), and the online
folders (depending on the service, showing up as user created folders).

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

Hi Norman -

You are an angel! Thanks SO much!! The only change I made was entering
[Gmail] in the root folder path, refreshed and got the list I was looking
for. There was no need to place brackets around the sent items and drafts
as they appeared normal.

Again, thanks a million!

Regards,
Wyman

"N. Miller" wrote in message
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On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 21:57:14 -0500, Wyman wrote:

OK I've set up my account per the instructions on Google's site. However
I can't configure one of the recommended IMAP client settings. It says to
set OE to save drafts to the [Gmail]/Drafts folder but I can't seem to
find where to do that. Can someone please let me know where that setting
is? I've checked in the options and properties of the IMAP account and
still don't see.

Here's the link for the recommended settings so you can see for yourself.

What link?

Anyway, I've just played around, a bit. In MSOE, Tools | Options | Accounts,
and selecting the Gmail account. In "Account Properties", there is an "IMAP"
tab. When I leave the "Root folder path: [ ]" field blank, I get a folder
structure with a sub folder labeled, "[Gmail]", and it shows a duplicate
list of the basic folders, except for the Inbox. Something like:

[-]GMail
|-Inbox
|-Sent Items
|-Drafts
|-Deleted Items
|-[-][Gmail]
|-Sent Mail
|-Drafts
|-Starred
|-Trash

However, when I enter, "[Gmail]" in the field, and refresh the folder list,
it changes, thus:

[-]Gmail
|-Inbox
|-Sent Items
|-Drafts
|-Starred
|-Trash
|-Sent Mail

In first folder list, the icon adjacent to "Sent Items" and "Drafts" is the
MSOE default, while the icons adjacent to the "[Gmail]/Sent Mail" and
"[Gmail]/Drafts" is the MSOE user created folder icon. And email composed in
MSOE, and saved, is stored in the MSOE default "Drafts" folder, and the
"Drafts" folder online. Nothing goes into the "[Gmail]/Drafts" folder
online.

In the second folder list all the email in the online "Sent Mail" folder
shows up in the user created "Sent Mail" folder.

I made one more change: On the IMAP tab, in addition to entering, "[Gmail]"
in the "Root folder path:" field, I put a check in the Store special folders
on IMAP server" box, and changed one of the custom fields under "Special
Folders". The boxes now read:

Sent Items path: [Sent Mail]
Drafts path: [Drafts]

After refreshing the folders list again, the tree looks thus:

[-]Gmail
|-Inbox
|-Sent Mail
|-Drafts
|-Starred
|-Trash

I did some cleanup of labels online, as well. I've not used IMAP accounts
that much, and I find the synchronization to the folder labels a bit
confusing between the MSOE default folders (unique icons), and the online
folders (depending on the service, showing up as user created folders).

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:41:30 -0500, Wyman wrote:

You are an angel! Thanks SO much!! The only change I made was entering
[Gmail] in the root folder path, refreshed and got the list I was looking
for. There was no need to place brackets around the sent items and drafts
as they appeared normal.

Again, thanks a million!

You're welcome.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

Goodness me, it's worth becoming an Google Mail/OE expert just to get into
heaven... :-)

DAS

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"N. Miller" wrote in message
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On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:41:30 -0500, Wyman wrote:

You are an angel! Thanks SO much!!
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Goodness me, it's worth becoming an Google Mail/OE expert just to get into
heaven... :-)

DAS

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Hello everybody,

I have an inconvenience. I'm using Gmail's IMAP with Outlook 2003.
Everything works fine except for the "To" field in the folder "Sent
Items". It shows nothing, it's blank. I just checked and the Inbox has
the same problem, the "To" field shows nothing, absolutely blank.

Did any of these things happened to any of you? Do you know how to
solve this?

Thanks in advance.

Best
Gaston



On Jul 10, 10:05*am, "N. Miller" wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:41:30 -0500, Wyman wrote:
You are an angel! *Thanks SO much!! *The only change I made was entering
[Gmail] in the root folder path, refreshed and got the list I was looking
for. *There was no need to place brackets around the sent items and drafts
as they appeared normal.

Again, thanks a million!

You're welcome.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

I doubt if anyone in an Outlook Express newsgroup is having trouble with
Outlook.
--
Ron Sommer

"Ton" wrote in message
...
Hello everybody,

I have an inconvenience. I'm using Gmail's IMAP with Outlook 2003.
Everything works fine except for the "To" field in the folder "Sent
Items". It shows nothing, it's blank. I just checked and the Inbox has
the same problem, the "To" field shows nothing, absolutely blank.

Did any of these things happened to any of you? Do you know how to
solve this?

Thanks in advance.

Best
Gaston



On Jul 10, 10:05 am, "N. Miller" wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:41:30 -0500, Wyman wrote:
You are an angel! Thanks SO much!! The only change I made was
entering
[Gmail] in the root folder path, refreshed and got the list I was
looking
for. There was no need to place brackets around the sent items and
drafts
as they appeared normal.

Again, thanks a million!

You're welcome.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

1: Please start your own new thread instead of hijacking another.

2: Please post to the correct newsgroup.

Outlook and Outlook Express are entirely different programs. You will get
better help in an MS Outlook newsgroup:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...utlook.General
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof....configuration
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...k.installation
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...tlook.Contacts
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ok.Calendaring
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ic.outlook.Fax
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...utlook.interop
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...tlook.printing
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...Program_AddIns
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof....program_forms
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ok.Program_VBA
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ThirdPartyUtil

On the Web:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...utlook.general
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"Ton" wrote in message
...
Hello everybody,

I have an inconvenience. I'm using Gmail's IMAP with Outlook 2003.
Everything works fine except for the "To" field in the folder "Sent
Items". It shows nothing, it's blank. I just checked and the Inbox has
the same problem, the "To" field shows nothing, absolutely blank.

Did any of these things happened to any of you? Do you know how to
solve this?

Thanks in advance.

Best
Gaston



On Jul 10, 10:05 am, "N. Miller" wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:41:30 -0500, Wyman wrote:
You are an angel! Thanks SO much!! The only change I made was entering
[Gmail] in the root folder path, refreshed and got the list I was
looking
for. There was no need to place brackets around the sent items and
drafts
as they appeared normal.

Again, thanks a million!

You're welcome.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum