Thanks, everyone who sent me this info.  Their instructions are clear and
straightforward.

I don't use my gmail account as a rule.  However I am having trouble with
some organizations whose firewalls seem to block email from my alum.mit.edu
forwarding thing.  Mostly forwarding works very well, so I don't want to
change it.  However for those folks, until they can get my email listed as
acceptable in their system I want to be able to send email from gmail.
Hopefully they will use the reply-to that my email will give them, and
answer to my alum address - but just in case, I want to make sure that if
anyone emails me at gmail it will get downloaded.

Microsoft Outlook is just as good at gmail at sorting out listservs or
anything else I want it to sort.  And I don't want to save my emails on the
web - I want them on my computer.

Joy

:::-----Original Message-----
:::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
:::Of mordo
:::Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 11:27 AM
:::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
:::Subject: Fwd: need gmail advice - NVC, not even jokes - but it is
:::Fryeday!
:::
:::Joy,
:::
:::Go to your gmail setting page and go to the Forwarding and POP tab. There
:::is
:::a link to using POP with your gmail account.
:::
:::Alternately, you could simply forward your gmail messages to your primary
:::account you use with Outlook.
:::
:::I will say that I don't know why you would use outlook with your gmail
:::account. The gmail interface is really excellent for listserv use.
:::
:::mordo
:::
:::---------- Forwarded message ----------
:::From: Joy Hecht <jhecht@alum.mit.edu>
:::Date: Jan 19, 2007 11:09 AM
:::Subject: need gmail advice - NVC, not even jokes - but it is Fryeday!
:::To: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com
:::
:::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
:::
:::
:::--
:::mordo
:::1990 Carat