Once you are signed into your other email account go ahead and click Continue. It also says that a third-party company called ShuttleCloud carries out the process and that the transfer may be unencrypted. When you click on the link, a new tab will open and you’ll be asked for the email address for the other account.Ĭlick Continue and you’ll get a message stating that you have to log into your other email account to confirm the import. You can import email from Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL or any other email provider that allows POP3 access. Option 1 is for getting old emails from a different email provider into Gmail and for that you’ll click on the Import mail and contacts link under Accounts and Import. Basically, you have to decide whether you want to import only old emails, only new emails, or both old and new emails. It’s a bit confusing, but luckily Google has a short page written about the different ways to move email into your Gmail account. One option it to Import mail and contacts and the other is to Check mail from other accounts (using POP3).

Edit or Unlink accounts from the Check Mail from Other Accounts section.Now click on the Accounts and Import tab and you’ll basically see two different options for importing emails into Gmail.

You can reply from the email address that a message was sent to, or always reply from your default account.

Select a default reply behavior by selecting an option under the When replying to a message heading.

You can click the make default link for another account to change the default.

The Send mail as section lists the accounts that you can send email as, with the default account labeled as default.

Once you’ve linked another email account, you have some settings you can adjust to change how linked accounts work.Īfter another account has been linked, some new settings will be available here. Now, when you send this email, it will be sent from the linked account's address, instead of your Gmail account. When you have more than one account, the From field will have a list arrow.

Click the Compose button to start a new email.

The recipient will see whichever account you select as the sender of the email.

When you’ve linked another email account to your Gmail, you’ll have the option to send mail from either account. The other account is linked to your Gmail account, and you can now send and receive emails from that account through Gmail. Review the requested permissions and click Yes.Enter your other account's password, then click Sign In.Choose whether to link accounts or import emails, then click Next.Here, you can either link the account or simply import email from the other account into your Gmail inbox and not enable the other features of linking. Enter your other account's email address, then click Next.Click the Add a mail account link next to the Check mail from other accounts heading.Grant access to your account gives another Gmail user limited access to your mail.Check mail from other accounts links another mail account to Gmail, allowing you to check mail from that account from within Gmail.Send mail as allows you to send mail from Gmail using another email address.This settings screen has a few options that sound similar, that all allow you to use another email account in different ways. While not all email accounts are supported, most common webmail providers can be added to Gmail.

This allows you to see messages from both accounts together, as well as use Gmail's sorting and searching options.

If you have another email account on a service that Gmail supports, you can use that email account inside Gmail.

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