How to Make Gmail Your Universal Email Account

If you are like many people today, you have more than one email account to check. A feature in Google's Gmail allows you to configure Gmail to check multiple email accounts automatically. With this functionality, Gmail can become your single point-of-contact to check all of your email accounts.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Open your Internet browser and go to Gmail.com. Sign into Gmail with your Google account by entering your login and password.

2. Click the link "Accounts and Import." Click the button, "Add POP3 email account." A wizard appears to walk you through the configuration process.

3. Type your email address and click "Next Step." Enter the username and password associated with the email address you just entered.

4. Type the name of the POP Server and port number if it is not the default port number of 110. You also have several options you can choose: Leave a copy of retrieved messages on the server; always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail; label incoming messages; archive incoming messages.

5. Click "Add Account."

References

• Configuring Mail Fetcher