Windows 10: Outlook 2019 IMAP and Gmail

I am unable to set up gmail and outlook 2019 I have followed the info from Microsoft and other help sources using imap.gmail.com Requires SSL: Yes Port: 993 Outgoing mail (SMTP) server smtp.gmail.com Requires SSL: Yes Requires TLS: Yes (if available) Requires Authentication: Yes Port for SSL: 465 Port for TLS/STARTTLS: 587 I have checked Gmail forwarding and made sure label is check in setting. Can anyone help please?

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Gmail IMAP on Outlook 2019

If some of you folks would take the time to actually read the user posts you might resist making comments about "just google it" or "read the instructions". I have looked for a solution to this problem for several months and can provide a few details:

• The issue is becoming widely discussed by many users with the same problem - it's not confined to just a few people. The MS web sites contain many posts.
• The problem seemed to begin in May 2019
• It appears to be confined to Gmail on Outlook 2019
• It isn't clear if it's a Microsoft issue, or a Google issue, or both.
• It is not a problem when using a client such as Thunderbird, which I have installed and use - the Gmail account was an easy (trivial) set-up. For me, Gmail continues to work on Thunderbird without issue.
• There are many suggested fixes - enabling IMAP is a given, changing port numbers, server names (e.g, imap.gmail.com to imap.googlemail.com), the use or non-use of 2FA, app passwords, allow less-secure apps to run, etc. I have tried all of these singly or in various combinations.

For me, the problem started a few months back when Outlook puked up the Gmail settings and would not proceed with re-installing the account. I continuously received messages that it could not find the IMAP server - the fault code is noted in a couple of messages above.
Initially I thought I had re-mediated the problem by doing an on-line repair of MS Office (Pro Plus, 2019). This meant re-activating Office, Project & Visio, which I do not want to do continuously. I was able to set-up my Gmail account easily, and thought the problem was resolved. This lasted about a week.
Now, after a system restart, I can generally set-up Gmail again easily, without repairing Office - just as some of you suggest that this is all that is necessary. It may last for a day or two, but frequently only a few hours.
I'm not willing to give up on 2FA.
I am cutting away from Gmail so I'm not going to obsess over a solution any longer. For the limited number of Gmail I still receive I can manage with Thunderbird or by browser.
If this isn't an issue for you, that's great. Happy days. But don't discount the issue as being one of user failure to follow instructions.

Peace

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For Sygnus21: It's enabled on my account, disabling it seemed to be the root cause of Janice Reid's issue. I could try turning it on and off and might give that a spin in the next day or so. I really should be working :/

 

Gmail IMAP on Outlook 2019

Adding gmail with imap to Outlook 2019 is as simple as entering your email address and password at the add accounts page, no need to turn off 2fa as you get a google authentication page as part of the setup.

At what point is it failing?

 

Gmail IMAP on Outlook 2019

I had lots of problems setting up GMAIL IMAP on OUTLOOK 2019. The one thing that solved it for me was setting up via the Control Panel applet (this is mentioned here in one of the earlier posts, apparently there is a long term bug in OUTLOOK) rather than from within OUTLOOK itself...
Close OUTLOOK. Control Panel/Mail/Email Accounts/New. I remember I also had to define in both GMAIL and OUTLOOK what folders I wanted to Sync. I use both OUTLOOK and MAILWASHER to download mail and I've had no problems in 5 months.