You might receive an error saying, "unable to connect to your outgoing server" while setting up a gmail account in outlook even when your gmail account password you have entered is correct.
This is due to new settings in gmail account, which required you to enable 2FA in your account and allow you to set up a password to access your gmail account via smtp or any application client like outlook.
Follow below steps to do set up your gmail account in outlook 2016:
1. Login to your gmail account and set up 2fa, you may visit below link Google Less secure apps (login using your gmail account you would like to configure in outlook), click back(<--) and you will see the settings:
3. Click on App passwords, select App as Mail and device as Windows Computer.
4. Click on generate, it will generate a string password, copy it (it can be used as a password while setting up other apps to access your gmail account).
5. Open your outlook, click on File>Add account, fill up the account information and paste the password copied from previous step(step 4), click on next.
It will set up your outlook with your gmail account.
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