
In the Account Settings window menu, click “New…” On the dropdown menu, click the “Account Settings” option.

Step Two: Connect Outlook To Your Gmail AccountĪfter setting Gmail up to allow IMAP connections, Outlook makes it very easy to add your Gmail account.

Now, it’s time to connect your Gmail account to Outlook. That’s all you have to on the Gmail end of things. In the “IMAP Access” section, select the “Enable IMAP” option.Īnd then click the “Save Changes” button. Switch over to the “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab. You can’t do this in the mobile apps.Ĭlick the gear icon in the top right corner.Ĭhoose “Settings” from the dropdown menu. Start by heading to the Gmail website in your desktop browser and signing in. Since your browser doesn’t download or keep your emails, logging out of webmail doesn’t mean much.Before you connect your Gmail account to Outlook, you must prepare your Gmail account so that it’s ready for the connection. When you log yourself out from a webmail service, like Gmail, you’re basically just clearing a cookie in the browser that keeps your session data. Logging out of webmail, on the other hand, is different. That’s because logging out from an email client like Mail means you don’t want to send and receive emails with this account on your computer, and you don’t want to keep the emails that have been downloaded to your Mac. When you log out of Apple's Mail app, you’re basically not looking to use that email account anytime soon on your computer.

How Is Logging Out of the Mail App Different From Logging Out of Webmail Services? Do you not want or need to receive emails in the macOS Mail app anymore? If so, you can log out of Mail on your Mac and that will stop syncing your emails with your account.ĭepending on how long you want to remain logged out, you can either sign out of Mail temporarily, or you can remove your email account entirely from your computer.
