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Our lives are made up of work, friends,
family, hobbies, events, clubs, and so
on. Because our lives are so diversified
we often have multiple email accounts.
Gmail is a great, free email program
that has a lot of functionality. If you have more than one Gmail account
you can easily link them together so
you can receive and send email from
one master Gmail account and keep
everything together without having to
switch back and forth between accounts. Here are the 4 steps you will need to
complete to link your Gmail email
accounts together: Step 1: Add A Second Email Address Step 2: Forward Incoming Mail Step 3: Create a Label Step 4: Create a Filter ??????????????? Step 1: Add A Second Email Address 1. In your Primary (the one you want to
send and receive all of your mail from)
Gmail account click Settings at the top right hand corner of your screen. 2. Click the Accounts tag. 3. Select Reply from the same address the
message was sent to under When I receive a message sent to one of my addresses: 4. Click Add another email address. A window will pop up. 5. Fill in the correct information for your
secondary email account and click Next Step. 6. Click Send Verification. Close the pop-up window. 7. Switch to the Secondary email account
and click the verification link in the email sent from Gmail. Step 2: Forward Incoming Mail 1. Still in your Secondary email account,
click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab found under Settings at the top right corner of the screen. 2. Type your Primary email address in the Forward a copy of incoming mail to box. 3. Then pick an option from the drop-
down list:
- keep Gmail?s copy in the Inbox
- archive Gmail?s copy
- delete Gmail?s copy 4. Click Save Changes. Step 3: Create a Label 1. Switch to your Primary email account,
scroll to the bottom of the page and
look for the Labels box on the left- hand side of the window. 2. Click Edit labels at the bottom of the Labels box. 3. Click in the box under Create a new label: and type a name for your label. You could use the actual email address
if you want. 4. Click Create. Step 4: Create a Filter 1. Still in the Primary email account, click
the Filters tab, which is next to the Labels tab, and then click Create a new filter. 2. Type your secondary email address in
the To: box. 3. Click Next Step. 4. Click in the box next to Skip Inbox to select it. 5. Click in the box next to Apply the label: to select it and pick the label you created from the drop-down list. 6. Click Create Filter. That?s it! Now, emails from your
Secondary email account will
download into your Primary email
account and automatically go into the
Label (folder) that you specified. Using
Filters helps to keep your email separate and organized so you don?t
have all of the emails from multiple
email accounts going into the same
Inbox. You will also be able to send emails
from both email accounts from the
Primary email account without ever
having to switch to the Secondary
email account.
family, hobbies, events, clubs, and so
on. Because our lives are so diversified
we often have multiple email accounts.
Gmail is a great, free email program
that has a lot of functionality. If you have more than one Gmail account
you can easily link them together so
you can receive and send email from
one master Gmail account and keep
everything together without having to
switch back and forth between accounts. Here are the 4 steps you will need to
complete to link your Gmail email
accounts together: Step 1: Add A Second Email Address Step 2: Forward Incoming Mail Step 3: Create a Label Step 4: Create a Filter ??????????????? Step 1: Add A Second Email Address 1. In your Primary (the one you want to
send and receive all of your mail from)
Gmail account click Settings at the top right hand corner of your screen. 2. Click the Accounts tag. 3. Select Reply from the same address the
message was sent to under When I receive a message sent to one of my addresses: 4. Click Add another email address. A window will pop up. 5. Fill in the correct information for your
secondary email account and click Next Step. 6. Click Send Verification. Close the pop-up window. 7. Switch to the Secondary email account
and click the verification link in the email sent from Gmail. Step 2: Forward Incoming Mail 1. Still in your Secondary email account,
click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab found under Settings at the top right corner of the screen. 2. Type your Primary email address in the Forward a copy of incoming mail to box. 3. Then pick an option from the drop-
down list:
- keep Gmail?s copy in the Inbox
- archive Gmail?s copy
- delete Gmail?s copy 4. Click Save Changes. Step 3: Create a Label 1. Switch to your Primary email account,
scroll to the bottom of the page and
look for the Labels box on the left- hand side of the window. 2. Click Edit labels at the bottom of the Labels box. 3. Click in the box under Create a new label: and type a name for your label. You could use the actual email address
if you want. 4. Click Create. Step 4: Create a Filter 1. Still in the Primary email account, click
the Filters tab, which is next to the Labels tab, and then click Create a new filter. 2. Type your secondary email address in
the To: box. 3. Click Next Step. 4. Click in the box next to Skip Inbox to select it. 5. Click in the box next to Apply the label: to select it and pick the label you created from the drop-down list. 6. Click Create Filter. That?s it! Now, emails from your
Secondary email account will
download into your Primary email
account and automatically go into the
Label (folder) that you specified. Using
Filters helps to keep your email separate and organized so you don?t
have all of the emails from multiple
email accounts going into the same
Inbox. You will also be able to send emails
from both email accounts from the
Primary email account without ever
having to switch to the Secondary
email account.
