Introduction to Outlook 2007 Get a Gmail Account

To use Outlook 2007 as an e-mail program, and you are not connected to a Microsoft Exchange server business, you connect Outlook to an email account on the web. Many large companies such as Yahoo, Microsoft and Google offer free email accounts web based as well as hundreds of small businesses. The best choice for most people is to connect Outlook to a free Google Gmail account. Once you have Gmail, it only takes a few minutes to configure the Gmail Outlook connection. This allows you to use Outlook to read messages sent to your Gmail account. It also allows you to send messages from Outlook using your Gmail address.


Why use Gmail? Well, there are many other free email accounts out there, like Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail. But to connect Outlook for free is the rub. Other email accounts (Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail, for example) allow you to connect to Outlook, but they charge a fee for the privilege. With these services, the free versions of e-mail account must be upgraded to a version of pay for connection. There are only a small number of email accounts based on the web that allow a connection from Outlook for free. With Gmail, you have a huge amount of space (measured in Gb) of mail storage right on Google's servers. Gmail also offers powerful search capabilities when you search your e-mail through the web interface (basically doing a Google search on your own email). Google supports the Gmail service with advertising, but you do see the ads when you use Gmail with your web browser, not when using Outlook 2007 Gmail is definitely the free email service of choice for connecting with Outlook .