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How to Add a Forwarding Address in Gmail Using Outlook.com

Date 31/12/2012
Google based email service Gmail provide POP/IMAP service for their users at free of cost, with POP you can easily send and receive email from others email provider like outlook etc.

With outlook you can easily send and receive email from any other account . Lets say you want to add a Gmail account with your outlook email for sending and receiving email. The best way to add a Gmail account is to forward the account to Outlook.com, set up Outlook.com to send email using your Gmail address, then import your contacts and old email. Here is the whole procedure .

Set Gmail to forward email to Outlook.com

1.   Sign in to your Outlook.com and Gmail accounts and stay signed in to both until you're done with the setup.

2.   In your Gmail account click setting.

3.   Click forwarding and POP/IMAP , then click add a forwarding address.

4.   Enter your outlook.com email address, click next , click prproceed, and then click ok.

5. In outlook.com open the confirmation email from Gmail and click the link to verify.

6. In Gmail refresh the setting page , select the forward a copy of incoming mail to radio button and then click save changes.

Click gmail setting button to make these changes

Set up Outlook.com to send mail from your Gmail address

In Outlook.com, click the Setting icon , then click More mail settings.
Under Managing your account, click Your email accounts.
Under Add an email account, click Add a send-only account.
Enter your Gmail address, then click Send verification email.
In Gmail, open the confirmation email from Outlook.com and click the link to verify.
In Gmail, open the confirmation email from Outlook.com and click the link to verify.