Oz wrote:

Does anyone know if Outlook 2007 will work ok with Virgin's dreadfull new
Gmail?

Maybe you have to use the webmail interface to your account to configure
the server-side options to enable POP or IMAP access (you never
mentioned HOW you are accessing your Gmail account).

I have tried Live mail and Thunderbird but they are unreliable and Virgin
wont offer support.

Both those e-mail clients ARE reliable. Gmail is the problem. Google
does NOT comply with RFC standards for POP. They comply just enough for
most e-mail clients to work but how you might setup multiple clients,
like using an e-mail monitor along with an e-mail client, might not work
because Gmail doesn't obey POP commands correctly. It treats TOP as a
RETR, ignores DELE (because you set that behavior as a server-side
option), and so on. I doubt Google is fully compliant for IMAP.

If Windows Mail and Thunderbird can't work with Virgin's contracting of
Gmail services then other e-mail clients will similarly fail.

I have Home and Student 2007 and will add Outlook 2007 if it works. (There
does not seem to me a Outlook trial on its own anymore)

The "Home and Student" edition of 2007 does NOT include Outlook 2007.
You will have to get a version of Office 2007 that includes Outlook;
see:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/pr...635841033.aspx

A trial version would be of little use since it expires and then what
would you use for an e-mail client?