Gmail POP & Outlook Tip
Gmail doesn’t pull read messages down when accessing a POP account. Therefore, if you’re using gmail and outlook on the same email account, you have to make sure to mark the messages you read in outlook as unread when you’re done looking at them. Otherwise they won’t make it to gmail.
To simplify your life, a better solution is to just tell Outlook not to automatically mark messages as read. Then messages will make their way to gmail unless you specifically mark it as read.
Stealing directions from a Faq:
Q: How can I avoid the message be marked as read?
A: To avoid the message to be marked as read, you can do the followings:
- In Outlook » Tool menu » Options
- Click on Other tab » Preview Pane » click on the Preview Pane button
- Uncheck the Mark Messages as Read in Preview Pane section.
- If you use the Preview Pane to read messages, use the space bar to mark the message as read. Otherwise, opening the message will mark the message as read as well. This way, you won’t miss some important messages be marked as read by accident.
