Reading Outlook in Gmail

Today I discovered a way to read Outlook e-mails in Gmail. I was reading an article that discussed a method for reading Gmail e-mails in Outlook. The jist of it is to use Gmail's IMAP functionality and setup an IMAP account in Outlook that connects to Gmail. Any labels in Gmail will be visible as folders under the IMAP account in Outlook.

I created an "outlook" label in Gmail. This shows up as a folder in Outlook. I created a rule to copy all mail that lands in my Outlook Inbox to the the "outlook" IMAP folder. As long as the Outlook client is open mail will copied to the new "outlook" folder.

In Gmail the mail bypasses the Inbox and shows up under the "outlook" label.

Enjoy!