Joy, I did it from GMail.

Top right corner: Settings  >   Forwarding  >  Insert your home mail here

This way gives you your own Archives, as GMail will store a copy for you.
Very handy if you ever lose data on your own computer!     :)

On 1/19/07, Joy Hecht <jhecht@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> To anyone who can help -
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to get email sent to my gmail account to
> automatically download when I hit "send and receive" in Microsoft outlook.
> I've gone through the "add an email account" menus in outlook, and put in
> the following things:
>
> Type                                    HTTP - should it be POP?  I assume
> not.
> Email address:                          hecht.joy@gmail.com - that's my
> gmail address
> Username:                               it automatically filled in the
> gmail
> address -
>                                         should it just be "hecht.joy"?
> HTTP mail service provider:     "other" - the options are "hotmail",
> "msn",
> or
>                                         "other"
> Server URL:                             I tried "gmail.com" and I tried
>                                         "http://mail.google.com"
>
> In the "more settings" - "connection" - option I tried with "my LAN" and I
> tried with "3rd party dialer."  Sometimes I dial in on a regular phone
> line,
> sometimes I'm on someone else's wifi.  If I'm already connected, does it
> make a difference what I have for this option?
>
> In all cases I got this error:
>
> Task 'Gmail: Folder:Inbox Synchronizing headers.' reported error
> (0x80070057) : 'An unknown error has occurred. Please save any existing
> work
> and restart the program.'
>
> Can anyone tell me how I should do this?
>
>
> Joy
>

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