Gmail is a superb email service in the sense it allows a user to get access of his or her emails of Yahoo or Hotmail account by integrating them with Gmail account. This makes certainly Gmail ahead of other email services and offers leverage for those who do not wish to access their Hotmail or Yahoo account, but desire to have the old contacts and emails coming in these mail boxes by some means or by applying a trick. Here, is the trick of forwarding your Yahoo or Hotmail emails to your Gmail account. The steps that you need to follow for the same are given below in brief.
Step 1: Get into your Gmail Account
The first step is off course to login into your Gmail account and then to go to settings. You will find the settings as soon as you click the gear tab in the right hand corner of your mailbox. Then go to accounts and import tab within the settings. Now, click Add POP3 email account that is present just beside the Check mail using POP3 option.
Step 2: Provide your Yahoo or Hotmail Email address
Soon a new window will pop up in which you need to enter your email address from where you want to fetch the regular Hotmail emails into your Gmail account. It should be noted that you can add only five different email accounts in this pop up box to direct your Hotmailor Yahoo emails into your Gmail.
Step 3: Provide your Yahoo or Hotmail Credential
The third step is to click at the “Next Step” tab within the same window. As soon as you will click this, you need to enter the other necessary information for accessing emails fromHotmail or Yahoo account into Gmail account. This means filling up information like password, checking the checkboxes given, etc.
Step 4: Validating your Email account
This is the fourth step and in this, as soon as you click “Add Account” after filling the information necessary, Gmail will start checking the mail and if it gets any new emails then it will get immediately directed towards your Gmail account. Getting Yahoo or Hotmailemails into your Gmail account is just this much simple isn’t it?
Step 5: Confirm your changes
Now, this one is the last step and here, you have to return to the settings and then to “Accounts and Import” section of your Gmail account. Just choose the option “Send mail from another address”. This will now onwards automatically direct your Hotmail or Yahoo emails into your Gmail account.
A recipient will not find out that you are replying from a Gmail account instead of the mail account in which he or she has sent the mail unless he or she is using Outlook. In case of Outlook usage, a recipient will be able to view an email head which specifies “sent on behalf of xxxxxxxx@gmail.com”.
Thus, in a nutshell, just by following five simple steps, you can forward Yahoo or Hotmailemails into a Gmail account in a hassle-free manner. Gmail is currently the most widely used email service because of its high speed and more storage facility.
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