I’m shocked by how many people aren’t aware of this feature on Gmail.
To setup additional e-mails, just go to the Accounts section under Settings and add all of your other emails.
For example…whenever someone sends an e-mail to my bryn [at] bryn.me e-mail, I have it set to automatically forward it to my gmail. I can respond to the e-mail and select my “bryn [at] bryn.me” account as the sender.
I do this with all of my email accounts, this way I only login to one e-mail and can manage them all from one place.
Another thing I do to organize them all is to setup labels for each account so when they come in I can see what e-mail it was sent too.
The best part is that Gmail is of course web based, so no bullshit like Outlook if you’re not on you’re PC and need to check your email.
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Ive been using this feature for a while but I noticed my non g-mail emails are delayed quite a bit.
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Almost all emails sent from non-gmail accounts, even when properly added still arrive in inboxes with the sender identified as “yourgmailalias@gmail.com on behalf of bryn @ bryn.me,” which belies your private gmail address. Just a word to the wise.
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Hey Bryn,
Thanks for the heads up.
But do you know if there are any complications by not accessing some of those other accounts..?
i.e. I believe with Hotmail, they will cancel your account if you don’t access it for a 3 month stretch (or something like that), or at least they use to. So if you’re having all your Hotmail emails forwarded to your Gmail account, you wouldn’t have any reason to log into Hotmail and eventually there’s a chance that account would be closed by them.
Or does setting up an email forward get recognized by Hotmail which bypasses that problem (unlikely, since hotmail doesn’t benefit from that arrangement)?
Just wondering. 🙂
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Bryn Youngblut Reply:
July 29th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Yeah that could be a problem, but I think the more important problem is that you’re using hotmail. Gmail is by far more superior, I am talking more about domains you own. like myname@mybusiness.com kinda stuff.
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I prefer to use my own domain with Gmail, because then I don’t have the problem with “yourgmailalias@gmail.com on behalf of bryn @ bryn.me”. All emails are then sent from my domain name, so it looks good to everyone receiving emails 😉
By using your own domain in Gmail you can also setup email lists to forward emails to several accounts and you can use multiple domain names in one account. For example I use myname@……com, myname@……se and myname@……co.uk in the same account.
/Andreas
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I use this as well, I know some don’t as they are scared of google and think it is a conspiracy 🙂
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