If you find out your outlook account is not working, you can take the following steps:

First of all, it is best to check if your account is blocked. Many a times due to sending too many mails in a short period of time or a single mail to a large number of users, and account me get blocked due to a violation of terms of use. One can deal with this problem by ensuring not to violate the terms of use lead by outlook.

In order to deter spammers, outlook doesn’t allow users to send mails more than a particular number. If you want to increase your limit to send and receive mails you have to send an e-mail by clicking on a link when you have to provide your phone number and outlook will verify that you are an original user and not a spammer.

You will then be able to send more mails, as outlook will increase your limit. If this is not the case then there can be other problems with your outlook account. It is possible that your outlook account has been hacked and you will have to resolve the problem by trying to change the password of outlook account.

To do that you have to go to the password change page of outlook and click on the link.

You will be guided to a page where you will be needed to provide your outlook mail ID. Outlook will send you a code to your alternate e-mail address or your mobile number whichever you can access.

After this you will have to enter that code and outlook will allow you to change your password and you will be able to enter your outlook mail account. However, if you are not able to change the password of your outlook mail account by this process, it means that the hacker has changed your account information. In such situations and will not be able to change your password an access your account.

You will be required to contact outlook customer support team and tell them your problem and they will be able to help you. They will send you a questionnaire which will be based on your outlook mail account usage habits. After you have completed verification in this manner outlook will provide you the needed assistance to get back to your account.

As an email accessing platform, Outlook has won the hearts and trust of the email users worldwide. In modern days, most internet users have more than one email addresses. This provides immense convenience for communication. However, using several emails can be, at times, quite hectic and tedious as one needs to sign in to various webmail services. However, Outlook eliminates such inconveniences and provides the luxury of accessing all the email accounts at one single platform. The people trying to access Gmail at Outlook for the first time may find it a bit confusing. But that is not a great hindrance. Gmail can be easily synced with Outlook within just a few minutes.

Configuration steps of Gmail To Outlook

Following are the quick steps for configuring Gmail with Outlook:

• Sign in to Gmail account by entering the username and password in the given spaces

• Click the ‘Gear’ icon on the top right of the mail page and scroll down to find ‘Settings’

• Click ‘Settings’ and then ‘Forwarding and POP/IMAP

• Select ‘Enable IMAP’ in the IMAP selection section and click ‘Save changes’

Once the IMAP is enabled, you can complete the following process

• Open Outlook and sign in to it

• Choose and click ‘Account settings’

• Find and click ‘New’ button present in the ‘Mail’ tab

• Enter the required information such as name, username, and password etc.

• Wait for a few seconds for Outlook to connect

• Let the messages download

• Export the Google or Gmail contacts to a file

• Go to Outlook again and import

• Browse the file downloaded from Gmail

• Select the way you wish to handle the duplicates

• Use the imported contacts as you use the Outlook contacts

You can now access and use the Gmail account through Outlook. Likewise, you can sync and access the other email accounts. Now there is no need to sign in to different webmail services and waste your time and energy. Just open and sign in to Outlook and you will conveniently be able to access and use all the other email accounts.

Though, syncing Gmail account with Outlook is not a difficult process, some of the new users may find it a bit cumbersome. But that should not stop anyone from enjoying the luxury of using the email accounts through Outlook. The outlook customer support professionals are just at the finger-click distance if facing any issue in configuration.