GMail V Outlook (3 Viewers)

[delia todd]

A weird thing happened yesterday and I still can't get it straight in my mind.

I was trying to send an email to a friend with a BT address. Mine was Gmail. For two or three attempts it wouldn't go, as the Server was taking too long to respond.

On a 4th attempt, I got a pop up message from Microsoft saying something like... myoutlook Account does not exists. Log in to Microsoft. I shut that down and went to double-check I'd not inadvertently used my Outlook address, but I hadn't, it was definitely the Gmail one.

So I tried sending again, with the same result, only this time I couldn't shut the Log In to Microsoft box down, it just kept coming back again. So I looked up my password, logged in and then I could manage to send my GMail message.

What the heck has MS Outlook got to do with GMail???

Incidentally, I use Thunderbird to compose all my emails.

 

[gdhunter]

A weird thing happened yesterday and I still can't get it straight in my mind.

I was trying to send an email to a friend with a BT address. Mine was Gmail. For two or three attempts it wouldn't go, as the Server was taking too long to respond.

On a 4th attempt, I got a pop up message from Microsoft saying something like... myoutlook Account does not exists. Log in to Microsoft. I shut that down and went to double-check I'd not inadvertently used my Outlook address, but I hadn't, it was definitely the Gmail one.

So I tried sending again, with the same result, only this time I couldn't shut the Log In to Microsoft box down, it just kept coming back again. So I looked up my password, logged in and then I could manage to send my GMail message.

What the heck has MS Outlook got to do with GMail???

Incidentally, I use Thunderbird to compose

A weird thing happened yesterday and I still can't get it straight in my mind.

I was trying to send an email to a friend with a BT address. Mine was Gmail. For two or three attempts it wouldn't go, as the Server was taking too long to respond.

On a 4th attempt, I got a pop up message from Microsoft saying something like... myoutlook Account does not exists. Log in to Microsoft. I shut that down and went to double-check I'd not inadvertently used my Outlook address, but I hadn't, it was definitely the Gmail one.

So I tried sending again, with the same result, only this time I couldn't shut the Log In to Microsoft box down, it just kept coming back again. So I looked up my password, logged in and then I could manage to send my GMail message.

What the heck has MS Outlook got to do with GMail???

Incidentally, I use Thunderbird to compose all my emails.

I use Outlook for one of my email addresses (not my Gmail account). A couple of days ago (or so) I encountered a prompt asking if I want to use Outlook to manage my Gmail account. I declined. It was a somewhat trivial prompt, and I could have conceivably answered affirmatively without giving it much thought. I'm not saying that happened in your instance, but perhaps?

 

[delia todd]

I think I remember something like that too . But would definitely have refused it.

I wonder if there's a way of checking though?