| One of many important advantages of setting up | | | | iPhone or BlackBerry or another mobile device - |
| Outlook synchronization using the Easy-Email | | | | whilst there are specific applications you can use |
| solution is that you're able to always access your | | | | to sync different mobile devices with Outlook, |
| email, in spite of your location or whether you | | | | using Gmail is often the simplest and cheapest |
| have your laptop along with you or not. Assuming | | | | solution! |
| you have already used the Easy-Email setup to | | | | You've carried your laptop to foreign parts or |
| synchronize outlook using Gmail as the hub (see | | | | foreign offices or friends' houses and you can't |
| previous articles), you can now access your | | | | get the wifi to work on your computer. Gmail is a |
| Outlook email from any of your own computers. | | | | fantastic fallback - you can access your email |
| But it also means that you can now access your | | | | from any computer that has internet access |
| email from Gmail should you choose to. | | | | You carry a netbook so that you can work |
| I'm not trying to get you to switch to Gmail, if | | | | on your email while travelling but once you get |
| you like Outlook then stay with Outlook for your | | | | there you got the option of using a big screen |
| daily use. Gmail can just act as a concealed sync | | | | and a good keyboard and mouse. Work away in |
| server, or synchronization hub, and work away in | | | | comfort on Gmail on the proper computer and it |
| the background. | | | | will all be there on your netbook when you move |
| However it does offer you with the option of | | | | on again. (I don't know about you but I find |
| using another computer so you can email | | | | netbook keyboards very difficult to type on and I |
| anywhere. | | | | have small fingers!) |
| Here are some potential cases when you would | | | | So managing Outlook from Gmail is not the goal in |
| want to use Gmail to access your Outlook email: | | | | itself, that was to be able to synchronize outlook |
| You want to travel and not carry a laptop or | | | | on multiple computers. But I think from the above |
| netbook - log in to Gmail at the airport, at the | | | | you'll see that having the Gmail backup can be a |
| hotel or at an internet cafe and you can access all | | | | lifesaver. Imagine if your laptop got lost or was |
| your emails and organize all your emails. Whatever | | | | stolen while travelling! When I think back to when |
| you do on Gmail is going to be in the correct | | | | I had a "non Easy-Email" setup, I don't know how |
| folders any time you return to your personal | | | | I did it. Yesterday I worked from the Montpellier |
| computer and Outlook | | | | office and forgot my charger. So I just logged in |
| You would like to access your email from an | | | | to Gmail and had all my email accessible. |