If you’re using Windows Live Mail, you can add Gmail to your account by following these steps:

  1. Open Windows Live Mail and sign in to your account.
  2. Click the gear icon in the top left corner of the main screen and select “Add Account.”
  3. Type in your Gmail address and password into the Add Account dialog box and click OK.
  4. When you’ve added Gmail, it will appear in the list of accounts on the left side of the main screen. You can use this account to send and receive messages, as well as view your messages history and drafts.

**  Note:  This is for Windows Live Mail and not Windows Mail which replaced Outlook Express and is included in Vista.  Windows Live Mail is a separate download via Windows Live Services.  The Geek wrote a great article on setting up Gmail for Vista Mail**

For checking a Gmail account with different clients you do need to make sure your Gmail has POP enabled.  Go into your Gmail Settings Forwarding and POP/IMAP and enable POP to for all mail which will transfer the entire inbox or just the mail you get from this point forward.  Also you can choose weather or not to keep a copy on Google’s servers.

The first thing you will want to do is log in to your Live account if you haven’t already and click on “Add an e-mail account”.

Next enter in the account information for the email address, password and Display Name you want include and click on Next.

You then get a message advising you to follow instructions on setting up POP in Gmail.  Just ignore that because we already set it up at the beginning of this article.  You may want to check this account as your default however.

After everything is set up you will start getting messages from your Gmail account.  Pretty slick!

We have covered setting up the major email clients using either POP or IMAP for Gmail.  Here is a list so you can use your favorite client with Gmail.

Outlook 2007

Outlook 2007 IMAP

Thunderbird

Vista Mail With IMAP

Linux Kmail

Thunderbird IMAP