First you need to log into your Gmail account and go to settings. Click on Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab and enable IMAP and save changes.
- Open Outlook 2016 and go to the File
- Select Manual setup or additional server types.
- Click Next
- Choose your account type and select ‘POP’ or ‘IMAP’
- Click Next
- Add user information, server information and logon information
- Go to More settings and select Outgoing server tab
- Tick the checkbox ‘my outgoing server requires authentication’ and select the radio button ‘use same settings as my incoming mail server’
- In the same window, go to advanced tab and verify the following:
Incoming server and the options under it.
Outgoing server and the options under it
The next window appears as and this will appear only if you entered all the details correctly.
- You can close the window and you will get a message as-
- Click Finish and now you can check your email and subscribe to IMAP mailbox folders through Outlook which appears as: