[Trainer-talk] Interesting thing happening with Outlook and Gmail

[Damashe Thomas]

Hi,

I noticed an issue when attempting to set up gmail in outlook a few days
ago. I was getting prompts to enter the password. The client I was helping
soon after received an email from Google, advising them that a log in from
an unsecured application had been attempted. The email went on to say that
in order to allow gmail to be used with unsecured applications, the user
has to allow this by going to their Google security settings.

This may be the root of your problems. It seems that Google has decided to
treat outlook differently than in the past, or, not everyone using gmail
with outlook has this security setting set to off.

Hope this helps.


On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Jim Portillo via Trainer-talk <
trainer-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
>
>
> I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about whether something's going on
> with setting up Outlook and Gmail these days.  Here's why I ask.
>
> And, just so everyone knows, I've set up several of these Gmail accounts
> with Outlook for students in the past.  In fact, I recently set one up for
> myself on a tablet that runs Outlook 2013, and it seemed to work.
>
>
>
> In the past week, a student got a new computer with Windows 7 and MS Office
> 2013.  We tried going through the steps to set his account up, and Outlook
> wasn't taking it.  While it was trying to set up, it came up with another
> window or popup area asking me to enter in the password.  Whatever we tried
> doing was not working, and this is something that is generally done
> automatically so that folks can use IMap.
>
>
>
> A couple of days later, another student came to me and let me know that
> he'd
> installed Outlook 2013 on his computer and was trying to set up his Gmail
> account.  It didn't take his either.similar to my other student.
>
> Today, my first student said that this past weekend, he and his sister
> tried
> again to see if his Gmail account would work with Outlook, and they got the
> same results.
>
> We made sure the simple things, like correct email addresses and passwords
> were being typed into the correct fields.
>
> I tried getting on Google to see if there were any new changes that needed
> to be made, but I found nothing.
>
>
>
> Does anyone know what could be going on?  This should not be happening with
> Outlook and Gmail.  Generally, my setups are flawless.
>
> The only thing I've not tried doing is a pop3 setup, because both my
> students want to use IMap for using their Gmail on multiple devices.
>
> Any ideas would be great.  Thanks.
>
>
>
> Jim
>
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