Connect a Gmail, Outlook or IMAP mailbox

TALISK_HQ works from your existing mailbox:

1. Go to Settings (the Email tab).
2. Under Email Accounts, click + Add email account for Gmail or Outlook, or Connect IMAP for any other provider.
3. For Gmail/Outlook, pick Connect with Google or Connect with Microsoft and approve access in the window that opens. For IMAP, enter your host and sign-in details.

Your mail then syncs into TALISK_HQ. You can connect more than one mailbox; the most recently connected one is the active view.

For a Gmail or Outlook mailbox, your saved contacts come across too. The people in your address book appear under Contacts in the Email Contacts group with an Address Book badge, and they rank first in the To: suggestions when you compose. Adding a person with + Add contact saves them back to Gmail or Outlook, and a name or company you edit in TALISK_HQ is pushed there. When you have more than one mailbox open side by side, + Add contact saves to the address book of the mailbox you are reading, not the last one you switched to. Gmail also shares the people it has auto-suggested to you, and Outlook shares the people you correspond with most, so those appear in the suggestions without a badge. An IMAP mailbox has no address book, so its suggestions come only from the mail itself.

If an account later shows a warning, click ⚠ Reconnect on its card to re-authorize: this keeps your existing history. Removing an account keeps its history and merges back on reconnect; only Delete everything wipes it.

One rule to know: an address can only be connected under one provider at a time. If an address is already connected (say over IMAP) and you try to connect the same address through Google or Microsoft, TALISK_HQ refuses and changes nothing, because switching providers replaces the stored sign-in and is not something to do by accident.

To change how an address connects, use Move to Outlook on the account in Settings. That carries your messages, categories, rules and action items across to the new mailbox instead of replacing them. See "Move a mailbox to a different provider".

Removing an account does not change how its address connects: it clears the stored sign-in but keeps the account, so connecting the same address under a different provider is still refused.