Brooka said:
I just synced my gmail w/ my Outlook on my laptop following the great
instructions on the microsoft website.
I can receive e-mail and reply to those e-mails, but: (1) I can't create
and send e-mails; and (2) e-mails sent from gmail.com don't appear in my
Outlook boxes.
(1) You ARE creating a new e-mail and sending it when you do a reply.
You'll actually have to provide the same proof that you see, like the
error message, when you supposedly try to create a "new" e-mail and send
it.
(2) If you had a dozen e-mail clients installed on your host, why would
you think that sending an e-mail in one of them would automatically
update the Sent Items folder in all the others? If you use gmail.com
(which presumably means you are using their webmail interface) then you
are using yet another but separate e-mail agent to send your message.
If you want your e-mail client to see the same contents as you see when
using the webmail interface to your account, you'll need to use IMAP
instead of POP. POP only understands a mailbox. No folders. In the
webmail interface, the server-side Inbox folder is the mailbox and
that's the same content that POP gets to access. IMAP gets to look at
the subscribed folders.
Why are you following instructions on some Microsoft "site" rather than
following the instructions that Google wrote for their own Gmail
service? Read Gmail's web help pages on how to setup Outlook to use a
Gmail account. If you want to see all folders then switch from using
POP to IMAP (Gmail supports both e-mail protocols; well, sort of, as
they are Google's take on them and not 100% RFC compliant).
