Can I Forward My AOL to Gmail?
Forwarding your AOL to Gmail gives you the convenience of logging into a single email account with the benefit of accessing multiple accounts at once. Gmail allows you to forward, or import, email from several different accounts. Centralizing your email accounts allows you to streamline communication with your contacts.
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TrueSwitch
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TrueSwitch is the standard Gmail importing tool. TrueSwitch comes with a variety of helpful importing options such as importing contacts, importing your current mail, importing new mail for the next 30 days and adding labels to imported mail. TrueSwitch will not delete the contents of your AOL email account, which is a feature you must select when using Mail Fetcher, the alternative mail importing tool. To forward your email using TrueSwitch, you must access your mail settings and sign into your AOL email address when prompted to do so, in addition to following the other instructional prompts.
Mail Fetcher
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Mail Fetcher is an in-house Google mail importing tool that Gmail reverts to when TrueSwitch cannot be used. To use Mail Fetcher, the email account that you wish to forward to Gmail, in this case your AOL email account, must support POP access. While enabling POP access, Post office protocol access, will allow your forwarded mail to be viewed in Gmail, common email actions that include marking messages will not be apparent in the Gmail account.
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Handling of Information
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Worrying about how your information should be handled should not keep you from forwarding your AOL email to your Gmail account. Google ensures that necessary measures are taken to ensure that your privacy is kept. For example, you must provide the password and username for your AOL account to verify that you are authorized to access the account and that it is yours. The information will not be shared with another party, will not be permanently saved, and will be utilized only in accordance with Google’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
Benefits
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Forwarding your AOL emails to your Gmail account is a timesaving investment. You will no longer have to sign into multiple accounts, which can be tedious if you are checking your email using a mobile device or a computer with a slow Internet connection speed. Centralizing your email accounts also avoids the need of constantly entering, updating and remembering multiple passwords. If you have recently opened your Gmail account, forwarding your AOL email keeps you from having to alert your contacts of a new email address.
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