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I’m an Outlook guy. Have been for a decade or so. I love the interface, the features, and the speed. Can I access it from anywhere? No. But when I rely on my emails for business, and when I’m at my desk doing said business, I don’t want to wait for the laggy, feature-hidden, AJAX-loaded web interface of GMail or Ovi Mail to get my messages to me.

Setting up Gmail in Outlook was simple. I even use it via POP, because it’s faster. It really is. IMAP is great and all, but it’s just not for me when I want my email to act like it’s talking to an Exchange Server (fast). You can use the following instructions to set Gmail up as an IMAP inbox in Outlook 2010 for the most part, but they’re specifically set for Ovi Mail.

Ovi is Nokia’s email service. As much as I love the web-interface, again – I have Outlook open already, and I don’t want to grab my phone every time I hear it beep that I have an email. So, Outlook to the rescue, and Outlook it is. Here’s how you do it:

1. Open Outlook 2010, click “File” and then Account Settings
2. Click “New” (upper left of the dialog box)
3. 
4. Select “Manually configure server settings or additional server types”
5. Click “Next” and then in the “Choose Service” step, click “Next”. You’ll be setting up an “Internet E-mail”, the default option.
6. 
7. Note: for “User name” it must include the “@ovi.com”
8. Click the “More Settings” button in the bottom right before you proceed
9. 
10. Under “Mail Account” you can name this whatever you’d like, it’s for your own organizational sanity.
11. Then, clicked on “Advanced”
12. 
13. “Use the following type of encrypted connection” – Select “SSL”, for both drop downs
14. “Incoming server (IMAP)”, the port should be 993
15. “Incoming server (SMTP)”, the port should be 465
16. Click OK
17. Click Next
18. Click Close

That should cover it. If you’re ISP blocks communication over certain ports (I’ve seen this before, but with Port 25, on Time Warner in the ‘burbs of Southern California), you’ll need to figure something else out. If the IMAP fails, try toggling between SSL and TLS in step 15 from above.

Update: Outgoing Server requires authentication should be ticked in the “Outgoing Server” tab in account options. This recently changed for me (as of 2/22/2011), not sure if I just got lucky with my configuration, or if Ovi Mail changed.

02.6.11 • posted in: Technology