Sharky's Notebook

Gmail has become one of the most popular webmail applications of the new millennium. It has a good pack of features to make it easier to the users that knows how to use them. Among them is to consolidate all your email accounts into one simple web application.

Imagine that you can manage all your emails from msn, hotmail, isp, work, yahoo, etc from a single place without the need to visit all your email portals to check for new messages.

This guide will tell you the steps of how to setup your Gmail account to do all that.

First of all you must setup all your external email accounts to redirect or auto-forward incoming mails to your email address Gmail.

You can also use Gmail to retrieve emails via POP3 from other accounts.

After making sure that all your email from other accounts will end up on your Gmail inbox you can automatically classify them with a Label. Under settings there is an option called Filters in where you can define rules for certain types of received email messages.

In this case your rule should say:

All the incoming messages john@hotmail.com in the To field they must be marked with a label called Hotmail. This will help you identify from which email account that email came from.

When you finish to define all those filters the last thing that you must configure is the custom From email address.

This Gmail function will allow you to send an email using another From address.

For example:

You can send emails from within Gmail that will look like they were send via another email account. In other words you can answer an email from your work account and the receiver will not notice that you send it from Gmail.

That all you are set !!!