MS Outlook Tip of the Day


Well, if you are like my wife's employer - then you are using Outlook as an email client to Google's gmail system. Google offers wonderful email hosting solutions - Google Mail Hosting

Also, Microsoft's Outlook works great with it(isn't that ironic!). However, my wife noticed she wouldn't get new email notifications for a while in outlook - but instantly via her web browser at gmail.com. After a little pokeing around, I found the setting she needed to change so she could get new email notifications within 1 minute.

While in Outlook - press CTRL+ALT+S and this windows pops up. Change your "Schedule an automatic send/receive every" option to 1 minute and now Outlook will poll Gmail every minute - not every 30 minutes by default!

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