IMAP and Outlook 2007

IMAP and Outlook 2007

A simple issue. I have several GMail accounts which I want to use in Outlook 2007. Two of them are personal accounts and the others are for business relations. Normally, I'd just use the web interface but my new computer came with Outlook 2007 so I decided to use it. However, I just don't like to walk through the same dialog screens over and over again. I'm a software engineer, laziness is a requirement for that job! (Believe me, it is a requirement! Do exactly what needs to be done, nothing more!)

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"I think that rather than a full script a .prf file might work for you? This is the file generally created and distributed by ISPs to automatically configure their users Outlook/OLExpress profiles.

The easiest way to create these files is using the Office Custom Install Wizard (part of the Office Resource Kit download from Microsoft). You can then import these settings using a command line like this whenever you need to:

outlook.exe /importprf \\server1\share\outlook.prf

See here for the docs http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179062.aspx

I don't know GMail's specific settings, but the CIW is a pretty straightforward wizard to go through for creating these things, so you should be able to plug your settings in pretty easily and then have a file you can just import again in the future."