Mail forwarding and a single inbox
Most of us have multiple email accounts ( a personal email, a business email, a gmail, a hotmail, a yahoo, etc ).You dont want to login into each account separately so what do you do ?
Well, the first step is to select the email account that you are most comfortable with or the one which has the most amount of activity. I use my personal email account as my default account.
Once you are done with selecting your default inbox, it is time to activate Mail Forwarding in your other email accounts..................
For gmail go to Settings-> "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" option and clicking on "Add a forwarding address"
For yahoo go to Options-> More Options -> "POP and Forwarding" -> "Forward you yahoo mail"
For msn/hotmail go to Options -> "Options for Hotmail" -> "Managing your account" -> "Email forwarding"
In all of the above accounts you want to forward your email to the default email account that you selected before. You would get some confirmation email to your default account. Make sure you click all the confirmation links.
Once you are done with this, all emails that are addressed to you will collect into a single inbox, which can make things a bit of a mess. So the next thing to do is to label the incoming emails depending on which account they come from. This can be done by creating a filter for each of your accounts. The emails for an account can be filtered through the To: field as the email would be addressed to that email account.
This solves our problem of incoming mails. But what about Outgoing mails ? What if I want to send a business email after logging into my personal email account.
Gmail achieves this through the "Send mail as" option in Settings -> "Accounts and Imports "
Just add all your email accounts there are click on the confirmation links for each account.
Once this is set up, every time you type in a new email, the From field will have a drop down allowing you to send mail through the account that you wish to.
This is slightly complicated than other tips I have given out, but it makes life quite simple. Do comment incase you face any issues setting things up.......
PS: An additional email filter that I create is to star email from my business email so that I dont miss them..
Most of us have multiple email accounts ( a personal email, a business email, a gmail, a hotmail, a yahoo, etc ).You dont want to login into each account separately so what do you do ?
Well, the first step is to select the email account that you are most comfortable with or the one which has the most amount of activity. I use my personal email account as my default account.
Once you are done with selecting your default inbox, it is time to activate Mail Forwarding in your other email accounts..................
For gmail go to Settings-> "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" option and clicking on "Add a forwarding address"
For yahoo go to Options-> More Options -> "POP and Forwarding" -> "Forward you yahoo mail"
For msn/hotmail go to Options -> "Options for Hotmail" -> "Managing your account" -> "Email forwarding"
In all of the above accounts you want to forward your email to the default email account that you selected before. You would get some confirmation email to your default account. Make sure you click all the confirmation links.
Once you are done with this, all emails that are addressed to you will collect into a single inbox, which can make things a bit of a mess. So the next thing to do is to label the incoming emails depending on which account they come from. This can be done by creating a filter for each of your accounts. The emails for an account can be filtered through the To: field as the email would be addressed to that email account.
This solves our problem of incoming mails. But what about Outgoing mails ? What if I want to send a business email after logging into my personal email account.
Gmail achieves this through the "Send mail as" option in Settings -> "Accounts and Imports "
Just add all your email accounts there are click on the confirmation links for each account.
Once this is set up, every time you type in a new email, the From field will have a drop down allowing you to send mail through the account that you wish to.
This is slightly complicated than other tips I have given out, but it makes life quite simple. Do comment incase you face any issues setting things up.......
PS: An additional email filter that I create is to star email from my business email so that I dont miss them..
4 comments:
Or use thunderbird on the PC that you regularly use :)
POP3 is good, but i like to access my mail from anywhere.......plus save space on my computer.... :D lets keep POP3 for later.
Dude!! Thunderbird supports imap!! You get the option of keeping your mail anywhere or download it. In fact you can download mail for specific folders.
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