Needed for this solution: A Gmail Account, At least 1 other email account
Just for the sake of full disclosure I’m a huge fan of Google and all of their products. Not only are they usually very unique and ground breaking but they are offered for free. You can’t beat this combination.
A little while ago I found myself checking 5 different email accounts daily. Don’t ask how I got myself into this situation because honestly I’m not sure. But once again Google has developed a feature to help those of us with these types of problems. Email forwarding has been around for ages, Although this is a good solution this is not the solution I am going to discuss. My biggest issue with email forwarding is you have to set it up on multiple different email providers and when the email is sent to your central account its not labeled in any way (unless you set up a separate labeling function) and usually the forwarded email still remains in your inbox. Google’s Mail fetch feature solves all of these issues and more.
The simple instructions to set up the Gmail fetch feature is to:
- Log into your gmail account
- Click settings at the top
- Select Accounts
- Under Get Mail from other accounts select Add account you own
- Insert the requested information
- And your all set to go
Here is a detailed set of instructions from Google on how to set up the GMail Fetch Feature.
The great thing about this feature is that when GMail pulls in your emails it labels them for you and even has an option to delete the email from your other inbox. This process frees you from having to check your other inbox ever. Now what about sending email? Gmail also allows you to set up a custom From Address so you can appear to be sending email from that address as well.
Let me know if you have any questions about this solution or if you need any help getting it to work. If you have any other topics you would like to hear about let me know.
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