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Nowadays most people have more the one email account, usually just about enough to handle. As i write I have around 6+ email accounts ranging from service providers like Yahoo, Gmail( i got two of those), Hotmail also known as Windows Live mail, besides my website email…etc,etc. An easy way is to use Outlook or an email client like Thunderbird to manage all your accounts from one place as it makes archiving and managing much easier then opening windows after windows to check each email account.

Nothing less Outlook or Thunderbird is ok. But would you like to use Gmail as a single web-based place to manage all of your email accounts? I’m sure you might be interested in knowing how to setup all of your email accounts in Gmail so you can receive all emails via your Google Inbox. Here’s how Gmail can be turned as a master account for receiving and archiving all of your emails from different email accounts.
So here’s how to setup Gmail as a master account for collecting email from all of your other online accounts:

First, log into your Gmail account and click on Settings at the top right corner.

Now click on the Accounts tab and click on Add another email account under the Get mail from other accounts heading.

You’ll now be greeted with a little pop-up window where you need to type in the email address which you’d like Gmail to take over. Gmail is quite smart thou it will automatically try to find your ISP’s SMTP and POP server name without you having to do an inch.

After you have entered your email address, Google automatically determines the POP server name and the port number. The only thing you need to do at this moment is to type in your account password.

Now as you could see on the snap above, there’s an option to leave a copy in your account, label the messages so that you can sort or archive them quickly. Every now and them Gmail check the account for emails and retrieve and store them to Gmail. But unfortunately no option for setting up the time for email checking.

Not most will prefer this option as a one stop solution, yet still as Gmail has truck loads of space its a convenient and full proof backup solution. Your PC might break even your Outlook will some day…. but Google’s server won’t! Hope you guys find this tutorial interesting and helpful. Any questions?

Pranjal