
Instead of prefixing your Labels, you can also create a Label called and configure My Label 1 as a nested Label of the Label. So a label called My Label 1 should be renamed to /My Label 1 via the Gmail web interface.

Since you are now using as the mailbox root folder and Labels are created on a higher level, you won’t be able to see your Gmail Label folders in Outlook.Ī way around this is to prefix each of your Labels with /.
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Setting a root path for your Gmail account will free you from the folder structure.

Setting the Root folder path in Outlook 2010, 2013 or Outlook 2016 (MSI). Setting the Root folder path in Outlook 2016, 2019 or Microsoft 365.

However, this has an effect on any Labels that you might use in Gmail. To break yourself out of this additional subfolder and have all these folders listed directly under your mailbox in Outlook, you can set a root folder for your Gmail IMAP account. When you are using a Gmail account over IMAP in Outlook, you’ll also automatically get an or folder containing all the “system folders” of Gmail itself.
