Outlook 2003 and Gmail after May 2022

I have a couple of friends both using Outlook 2003 quite happily accessing both their ISP's email (but moving away from that ) and their Gmail accounts. They're in their late 80s and have no desire to update Outlook/Office or to spend money, as they see it, unnecessarily.

By the end of month, as I understand it, their Gmail accounts won't work as currently set up. It'll be necessary to use 2FA and application specific passwords.

I've searched the Tutorial index but can't find anything. Is there a simple guide how to do it?

I use 365 so that was easy to set up to access Gmail.

tpriest said:

... Outlook 2003 quite happily accessing both their ISP's email (but moving away from that ) and their Gmail accounts.

I'm also using an old Outlook [2007] so I set up my GMail account to forward everything to my main ISP. Since you are doing something about that main ISP ["moving away"] perhaps forwarding GMail will fit in with your existing plans.
- The only problem I found was that I set forwarding up but then had to return to it later to 'enable' the forwarding setup. Perhaps I had merely not noticed that checkbox the first time round.
- This will only resolve receiving GMail so sending it will remain a problem for which they would probably have to use their online GMail account instead of Outlook.


Best of luck,
Denis

Thanks for that, it's the simplest method/explanation I've seen.

Will go over to change their PCs when I'm back from holiday.

A further question if I may.

Does using an (Outlook) app password have any effect on being able to access the email account via Chrome browser using the original password?

tpriest said:

A further question if I may.

Does using an (Outlook) app password have any effect on being able to access the email account via Chrome browser using the original password?

I'd say not, I have both a Gmail account and accounts from my ISP and my Domain. But there is a bit of difference between the Outlook program/app that is part of Microsoft Office and the Outlook.com Webmail.

spapakons said:

I'm using Outlook 2010 at work and I could not access our Gmail accounts because it is considered an outdated out-of-support insecure application. However, I went to our account settings using a browser, went to security section and there is an option to let less secure applications use the email. Once you enable that you can access the Gmail with Outlook 2010, not sure for earlier versions. Of course by all means avoid 2FA! Never do that mistake, if you still can avoid it.

Yes, that currently works.
And, yes, it also works for Outlook 2007.
But it all stops on 30th May. That's the point of the OP's question.

spapakons said:

Now I would like to ask something else. One friend of mine has a company email which using a browser can be accessed using RoundCube email client, and is also blocked for Outlook 2010. He has no access to the server to change the security settings. Is there another workaround? Assuming there is not and he must upgrade to a newer Office version, do you know which is the newest version supported for Windows 7? As far as I know Office 2019 requires at least Windows 10. It would be better/cheaper to upgrade to an Office version than 2019, or he should upgrade to Windows 10 and use Office 2019? Any more advanced fellow here to help? What would you do?

He should upgrade to Windows 10. It is a supported OS.
The "secure" Outlooks are, as Google said in the email they sent all users, Outlook 2019 onwards or, in other words, not Outlook 2016 or earlier.

Google said:

Email software, like Outlook 2016 or earlier, has less secure access to your Gmail. Switch to Office 365, Outlook 2019 or newer, or any other email software where you can sign in using Sign in with Google.

All the best,
Denis