How to Combine Gmail Inboxes
Multiple email addresses can be useful, but when you have to constantly log out of one email account to check another, or even if you have to open several accounts in separate tabs, finding a way to consolidate them into one "hub" can be helpful. If all your email accounts are through Google (Gmail), you can use one of your accounts as a "Master" account, and receive and even send email from all your addresses.
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Instructions
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Forward Sub-Email Addresses
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Forward each email address to the "master" account.
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Click the Settings icon in the upper right-hand corner of the page -- looks like a gear -- and select "Mail Settings."
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Click "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" and in the window that opens, click the "Add a Forwarding Address" button.
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Type in the master email address. Follow the steps, and then go to the "master" email account to open the verification email sent automatically by Gmail. Click the verification link to complete the process.
Add Accounts
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Open the Mail Settings dialog in your "master" Gmail account.
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Click "Accounts and Import." Click the "Send Mail from Another Address" button and type in the Gmail account(s) that you would like to be able to use within the master account.
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Click "Next" and then close the dialog box when you see that a verification email has been sent to the almost-imported email address.
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Log out of the master account and into the other(s). Click the verification link in the verification email sent by Gmail.
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Log back into the master account. Compose a new email, and choose whichever account you would like from the new drop-down address menu in the "From" area.
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