Microsoft can recycle your Outlook email account

Microsoft is recycling email accounts if it becomes inactive.
The company’s Service Agreement tells users to sign in “a minimum of every 270 days” or their account may be cancelled and their data deleted.

Microsoft  confirms that this is the policy, however When the account becomes inactive "the email account is automatically queued for deletion from our servers. Then, after a total of 360 days, the email account name is made available again," .

Yahoo recently started recycling unused accounts and was harshly criticized for this policy. The company reassured users that proper measures where implemented to prevent privacy disasters like identity theft through data obtained from old e-mail.Microsoft, though, appears to be enabling this without properly informing its users.

Microsoft should clearly inform its users about the account reuse policy, Rispoli said. "Microsoft should absolutely mention this policy in their service agreement. Users should be made aware of this."

 Microsoft says: "We listen closely to the feedback we receive from customers, and are always evaluating how to ensure Outlook.com is the best email service available."

How to set up Gmail with Out look

You like your email to be where your calendar is and your to-do list, too?
Outlook is your calendar, and you do already access work email in it? You fancy getting your Gmail messages in it?

Fortunately, setting up a Gmail account is easy in Outlook. Incoming messages can still be archived and accessed via the Gmail web interface, of course, and outgoing mail is automatically stored there as well.

If Outlook was not able to configure your Gmail account automatically, you can still do it manually:

Access Gmail with Outlook Using IMAP

To set up seamless access to all your Gmail mail and labels in Outlook 2007 (you can also access Gmail with Outlook 2002 or 2003):

Make sure IMAP access is enabled in Gmail
.
To enable IMAP in Gmail
Go to the your Gmail Account settings |  Forwarding E-mail settings
Enable IMAP

Now open Outlook
Select Tools | Account Settings... from the menu in Outlook.
Go to the E-mail tab.
Click New==>
Select Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP.
Click Next==>

Type your name under Your Name:.

Enter your full Gmail address under E-mail Address:

Make sure you include "@gmail.com".
Example
If your Gmail account name is "asdf.asdf@gmail.com", make sure you type "asdf.asdf@gmail.com" (Do not include the quotation marks).

Select Manually configure server settings or additional server types is checked.
Click Next==>

Select Internet E-mail.
Click Next==>

Select IMAP under Account Type:
Type "imap.gmail.com" under Incoming mail server:.
Enter "smtp.gmail.com" under Outgoing mail server (SMTP):.

Type your Gmail account name under User Name:.
If your Gmail address is "asdf.asdf@gmail.com", for example, type "asdf.asdf".
Type your Gmail password under Password:.
Click More Settings ....
Go to the Outgoing Server tab.
Make sure My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication is checked.
Now go to the Advanced tab.
Select SSL under Use the following type of encrypted connection: for both Incoming server (IMAP): and Outgoing server (SMTP):.
Type "465" under Server Port Numbers for Outgoing server (SMTP):.
Click OK.
Now click Next >.
Click Finish.
Click Close.
Now you can mark mail as spam or apply Gmail labels right in Outlook, too.


Using the Send/Receive toolbar item, you can immediately download new messages in your Gmail account to your Outlook Inbox.

You can use F9 to download your Email automaticaly.

To Shedule your email download use Ctrl+Alt+s  and change time.Default time is 30 minutes

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