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          Today let me write something useful regarding Gmail. This may be simple stuff for the techie community. But I want this to be known to those find it difficult to manage between their POP3 mails and different Gmail accounts. You can get all the accounts / mails under a single login. It’s pretty simple and straight forward.

Logon to your primary Gmail account, and click the ‘Settings’ link in the top right corner.

Go to the ‘Accounts’ tab

        Click the ‘Add another email address’ under send mail as (shown in above snapshot), A windows pops out asking for a email and Name. Just fill in the other email details. Once you are done with this step, Google tries to send a verification code to the mail id you have mentioned.

       Login to the other mail id and find the verification code in mail sent by Google for the verification purpose and enter in the Google mail settings.(mentioned in the previous step). You are ready now to send a mail from your Gmail as more then one sender. One as the primary account id and another is the new one you have added just now. You can go on adding any number of accounts in similar fashion. I’m not sure, if it’s a upper limit. But I’m using more than 5 accounts in similar fashion… J

Now come to the next part, to receive mails from other accounts. The only condition for this that the other account should be any POP3 enabled or a Gmail account where the POP3 is enabled. For this uder the same ‘Accounts’ tab, click the ‘Add another mail account’ under the ‘Get mail from other accounts’ (shown in the above snap)

In the window that pops out, enter the mail id and click ‘Continue’

        Now you get the screen something similar to the above snapshot. Here, you have to fill in the user login credentials. If another mail account is a Gmail account, it fills up the POP server details automatically. Otherwise, you have to supply the details of the server. Now you have other options for storing the mails.

       Once you are done with this step, Google tries to authenticate the login credentials, If successful, it is added to your mailbox. From then you can receive the mails coming into another mail account as well in your primary Gmail account. If you have not added the same mail-id as for sending mail from as explained in the first part, Google itself prompts to do so and follows the same steps.

       From now, when you are composing a new message or replying to a message, you will find a drop-down containing the list of mail accounts you have added in the first part along with your primary account. Hope you find this post useful…. J

Tags: Gmail tips, Internet, Mail client, Markish

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