Gmail – How to sync Windows Live Mail with Gmail

Alright, I figured one way to do this. In order for this to work you need an email account without an @gmail.com address. I used a Google Apps account, but another service provider's should be fine as well (e.g. @yahoo.com, @hotmail.com, etc.). The key is, that when you press the "Next Step" button in the "Add another email address you own", it must ask you the "Send mail through your SMTP server?" question. If it does not, you must use some other email provider.

Here are the steps:

1. Press the Send mail from another address button.
2. For the email address, enter in a non-gmail address that you own. It doesn't mater which one you choose, no one will see it. The only thing that is important is that you can access it.
3. Press Next Step.
4. Choose to Send through [domain.com] SMTP servers.
5. Enter in the credentials for the other gmail account you want to send as:
   • SMTP server: smtp.gmail.com
   • Username: example@gmail.com (the other gmail address you want to send as)
   • Password: (the password to login to the above gmail address)
   • Use SSL
   • Port: 465
6. Press Add Account
7. Verify the address by clicking on the link that was sent to you.
8. Send an email message, and choose to send it as that temporary account from step 2.

Even though you chose to send as the address from step 2, it will appear as the email address you chose from step 5. This is more of a temporary workaround, since this seems like a bug in Gmail, which may be fixed sometime in the future.

Since you have not explained how you have configured GMail and Windows Live Mail, I'll list the steps to set this up below.

If you confirm whether this matches what you've done, this might enable others to help?

Access a Gmail Account in Windows Live Mail Using IMAP

• Make sure IMAP access is enabled in Gmail.
• Select Go | Mail from the menu in Windows Live Mail.
• Hold down the Alt key if you cannot see the menu bar.
• Click Add an e-mail account at the bottom of the list.
• Type your Gmail address under E-mail address:.
• Type your Gmail password under Password:.
• Enter your name under Display Name:.
• Make sure Automatically determine my login ID is checked. (You can verify it is working correctly if the local part, i.e. what comes before the @, in your Gmail address appears under Login ID:.)
• Type your Gmail password under Password:.
• Make sure Manually configure server settings for e-mail account. is checked.
• Click Next.
• Make sure IMAP is selected under My incoming mail server is a _ server.
• Enter "imap.gmail.com" under Incoming server:.
• Make sure This server requires a secure connection (SSL) is checked under Incoming - Server Information.
• Type "smtp.gmail.com" under Outgoing server:.
• Make sure This server requires a secure connection (SSL) is also checked under Outgoing Server Information.
• Also check My outgoing server requires authentication.
• Type "465" for Port: under Outgoing Server Information.
• Click Next.
• Now click Finish.
• Click OK.
• Select Tools | Accounts... from the menu.
• Highlight the Gmail account in the list.
• Click Properties.
• Go to the IMAP tab.
• Enter "[Gmail]#Sent Mail" (not including the quotation marks) under Sent Items path:.
• Type "[Gmail]#Drafts" under Drafts path:.
• Type "[Gmail]#Trash" under Deleted Items path:.
• Enter "[Gmail]#Spam" under Junk path:.
• Click OK.
• Click Close.
• Shut down Windows Live Mail.

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