Gmail is the free email service developed by Google and was first released in 2004. It quickly replaced Yahoo mail in popularity with more than 1.5 billion active monthly users today. Did you know that you can also access other emails using the Gmail platform? This makes it convenient since there will be a centralized location to check all your emails. In this latest installment of our troubleshooting series we will show you how to add external email to Gmail.

Checking email from other accounts using Gmail

If Gmail is your primary email but you also have email accounts from other service providers then what you will usually do is to access each of these email accounts from their platforms. This can often be a tedious process, to speed things up a bit you can actually access all of your other email accounts from Gmail. Here’s how you can do it.

Prerequisites:

Make sure the other email account supports secure connections.
Make sure that the other email account has POP access.

Adding other emails to Gmail from Settings

You can easily add your other email accounts in Gmail from its settings.

Time needed: 5 minutes.

Check other email account using Gmail

Open Gmail.
You can do this by going to gmail.com from your browser.
Click Settings.
This is the gear icon on the upper right side of the window.
Click Settings.
This is the third option from the top.
Click the Accounts and import tab.
This is the fourth tab on top of the window.
Click Import mail and contacts.
This can be found on the right pane.
Enter the other email account address.
You can do this from the new window that appears.
Click the continue button
This will proceed with the sign in process.
Click the Yes button on the new window that appears.
This allows Gmail to access your other email.
Click the Start import button.
This will import the contacts, mail, and new mail for the next 30 days.