Question about google services!

[mrsmithjr]

Hello, maybe its a dumb question but I hope someone can answer. How is it so that you can use your outlook account to login into google services like youtube and gmail? As I understand it Microsoft and google are separate companies, so how does youtube check your outlook details when you login?

 

[justinbrooks07]

It's not an dumb question actually a lot of them don't know this. Here is an article which says when and why did that https://www.theverge.com/2014/10/20/7013177/gmail-android-app-yahoo-outlook-account-support

 

[mrsmithjr]

It's not an dumb question actually a lot of them don't know this. Here is an article which says when and why did that https://www.theverge.com/2014/10/20/7013177/gmail-android-app-yahoo-outlook-account-support

Thank you for the reply, however it doesn't answer my question. The article is referring only to the gmail app on android, it tells me that the gmail app supports other mail services but nothing more. I want to know how the process of using your outlook account to login to google services works, since Microsoft and Google are separate companies how does a google service like youtube check your outlook credentials in order for you to login?

Edit* Ok maybe this is down to some confusion on my part, in fact you don't use your outlook password, you create a unique password. I think thats correct

 

[Solandri]

Hello, maybe its a dumb question but I hope someone can answer. How is it so that you can use your outlook account to login into google services like youtube and gmail? As I understand it Microsoft and google are separate companies, so how does youtube check your outlook details when you login?

Pretty much all email services allow you to connect via POP or IMAP. POP is the older one, and is the protocol used to download your email from the service to your computer (this deletes it from the server, so the copy you downloaded is now the only copy in existence). IMAP is the newer one, and gives you the option to download your emails like POP, or to leave the emails on the server but access them remotely. Your email program then essentially becomes your email client, instead of the email server's website (Gmail or Yahoo mail).

Outlook supports both POP and IMAP. So you can use Outlook to access and manage your emails on Gmail or Yahoo. That is, you run Outlook to read, manage, and send emails, instead of the Gmail or Yahoo Mail website. But the emails (and your email address) are all handled by Gmail or Yahoo. Any other local mail program which supports POP or IMAP can do the same thing. Thunderbird is the popular open source one.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229?hl=en
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/import-gmail-to-outlook-20fdb8f2-fed8-4b14-baf0-bf04b9c44bf7
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN4075.html
https://www.lifewire.com/access-free-yahoo-with-outlook-1173788

 

[mrsmithjr]

Hello, maybe its a dumb question but I hope someone can answer. How is it so that you can use your outlook account to login into google services like youtube and gmail? As I understand it Microsoft and google are separate companies, so how does youtube check your outlook details when you login?

Pretty much all email services allow you to connect via POP or IMAP. POP is the older one, and is the protocol used to download your email from the service to your computer (this deletes it from the server, so the copy you downloaded is now the only copy in existence). IMAP is the newer one, and gives you the option to download your emails like POP, or to leave the emails on the server but access them remotely. Your email program then essentially becomes your email client, instead of the email server's website (Gmail or Yahoo mail).

Outlook supports both POP and IMAP. So you can use Outlook to access and manage your emails on Gmail or Yahoo. That is, you run Outlook to read, manage, and send emails, instead of the Gmail or Yahoo Mail website. But the emails (and your email address) are all handled by Gmail or Yahoo. Any other local mail program which supports POP or IMAP can do the same thing. Thunderbird is the popular open source one.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229?hl=en
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/import-gmail-to-outlook-20fdb8f2-fed8-4b14-baf0-bf04b9c44bf7
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN4075.html
https://www.lifewire.com/access-free-yahoo-with-outlook-1173788

Thats very helpful, thank you...