February 9, 2012

How to use Gmail to Receive mails from another e-mail Services?

This is definitely a frequently asked question by many e-mail users that they wanted to know if Gmail allows to send or receive mails from another e-mail service.The answer is Yes. Fortunately they allows. Apart from Gmail, some other e-mail service providers also offers this.  If you own a domain of your own and you have a economy hosting plan which don't allow you to store more e-mails which consumes space, this will be a useful feature.There is more than seven Gigabyte of space in google to do this! By doing this, you can view/send mails from multiple mail accounts by just logging in to Gmail. The good part is that it is so easy and you don't have any pain to change your domain settings for this. You should be aware that you can't use the feature to import mails from another Gmail account.

 Follow these simple steps to Import Mail (Receive) from an e-mail account other than Gmail.


LogIn to Gmail and click settings.


Then Choose Accounts and Import Tab and there click on Import Mail and Contacts.


In the PopUp Dialogue box, Enter the e-mail ID from which you want to import emails from, click next and enter the password for the mail ID and press Next


In the Next Screen, If appears, type in the password again and your full email ID in the POP Username field. No need to change anything else.


Click continue, in the next screen, if you want to leave a copy of the mails to that mail ID's also, select that option and click Finish.

If you are not an advanced user, you don't have to change anything other than these steps.

Congratulations! Now you can receive mails from your second e-mail in Gmail inbox. The Inbox will get updated frequently and the mails from your second ID will be labeled with the e-mail address to distinguish between each one.

Read 'How to use Gmail to send e-mails from another e-mail account other than Gmail?' to send mail using your second mail ID.

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