How Do I Allow Outlook to Access My Gmail?

Are you fed-up of Google snooping from one place to another of your email to serve you targeted ads based on what you've been sending? Outlook.com delivers best facilities as compared to Gmail.com, and with the different techniques you can easily get the perfect solution of how to transfer emails from Gmail to Outlook 2010, 2016 & on all others editions. Well! Here I am discussing with you two different solutions available in a marketplace so that you can choose any of the best one. Before starting the procedure let’s collect some knowledge about the Gmail and Outlook.

Brief Introduction of Gmail & Outlook

Gmail is a free and search-based email service, which is manageable from a Web browser at everyplace in the world, as long as an Internet connection is available. Gmail was initially familiarized by Google in 2004 and limited test accounts were completely available in 2005. According to statistical database, Google's Gmail service has 900 million active users in all over the world (Jan-May, 2015). On other side, Outlook is a popular e-mail application program by Microsoft that allows users to send and receive e-mail on their computer. Microsoft Outlook application is a commercial product available in a stand-alone version or part of the Microsoft Office package. This email client is a much fuller program with amazing corporate support and extra features not found in the free edition.

How to Import Gmail to Outlook Manually?

In this section, you can get complete procedure of Gmail to Outlook freely. To follow the manual guide you have to go with the two sections to fully export from Gmail to Outlook, which are described below:

Section I- Import Email Messages from Gmail to Outlook

Step 1- Login to your Outlook.com account. If you don't have this account, then no need to worry just generate a free Outlook account via Live.com.

Step 2- Directly go to the Gear Icon available at the top right side of screen.

Step 3- After clicking on gear icon, choose More Mail Settings from the drop-down list options.

Step 4- Now, Press on Import Email Accounts under the Managing Your Account section.

Step 5- Choose Google to import your Gmail account. 

Step 6- Now, go with the Start button on the dialog banner that appears.

Step 7- And, Login to your Google account properly.

Step 8- Grant Outlook access to your Gmail account by clicking on Accept. Depending on the size of your inbox, be ready to wait a few seconds before the next page loads.

After completing the above section, Microsoft begins the process to import information from your Google account, which will take some time. In this you don’t have to sit around waiting for completing this procedure, since closing your browser and shutting down your machine will not affect the import process. You can simply track the complete import progress by viewing at the indicator on the top right side of your Outlook inbox.

Section II- Forward Email messages from Gmail to Outlook.com

Step 1- Press on the Gear icon from the top right side of your Gmail inbox. 

Step 2- Go and click on Settings.

Step 3- Choose the Forwarding and POP/IMAP button.

Step 4- Press on Add A Forwarding Address.

Step 5- Now, type your Outlook.com email address, which you used or generated in Step 1 of the Import section. And, then press Next button.

Step 6- Confirm your forwarding address is accurate, then press Proceed.

Step 7- Click to open the Gmail Forwarding Confirmation email in your Outlook inbox.

Step 8- Go with the first link available in the message. If that doesn't work, then you can also copy the verification code in the email and paste it into the verification field in your Gmail Forwarding settings. 

Now you can get all your Gmail email messages into your Outlook.com without any worriers.

Last Lines

As you can see above manual method includes a lot of steps to perform the import Gmail to Outlook procedure. It takes lot of time because this method need 100% attention of users at the end of the process. To avoid seeing the continuous issues in this, you can also try MBOX to PST Converter which allows user to import all email messages from Gmail to Outlook account without any single error. If you want to test the software so you can opt its free trial version facility and then go with its license edition to perform bulk MBOX file conversion. Both techniques are recommended by me, so now it’s upto you to choose the right and perfect solution.