Tutorial: How to configure Gmail to centralize your email accounts

Managing multiple email accounts is not an easy task, especially when they are from different services. Often the user needs to access several different services to check all the messages that have been addressed to them. A good alternative to this is to centralize all your email accounts to the gmail.

In this way, you can send and receive emails from your Hotmail accounts or your work email, for example, using just a username and password. Not to mention that by centralizing different services in Gmail, you can take advantage of applications such as Inbox.

The configuration is very simple, check it out:

1° – Log in with your account on gmail. If you don't have one, click Create an account and register for free.

2° – When opening the main page of your email, in the inbox, click on the gear, in the upper right corner of the page, and then on “Settings".

3° – Click on the tab “Accounts and Import"And then"Add another email address you have".

4° – A small browser window will appear, in the “Name” enter an identifier for the address to be added. In "Email address“, as its name suggests, you must enter the full email address. To proceed with the changes click on “next stage".

5° – Now, you must enter the configuration data of your other e-mail accounts. If you don't know the settings, you can find them in the email service you use (eg Hotmail, UOL, Yahoo!…). Usually this information is on some page of “Help“, teaching you how to configure the email in Outlook or to another application. Either way, a quick search for “email configuration (server name)” will give you the information you need.

Attention! The email you are setting up may be blocked from downloading email via POP. Enter the settings menu of the other sites and check if the service is activated. If you already download your e-mails in an e-mail program or if the service you are using does not give you this configuration option, it is certainly because it will already be activated..

6° – To finish this modification step, click on “Add account“. An email will be sent to the inbox of the added email to ensure that the address actually belongs to the user.

7° – Open your registered email account and locate the Gmail team message. In this email you will find the “Confirmation code", which must be copied and pasted into the "Enter and check the confirmation code“, displayed on the finalization screen.

8. Now, when you send an email, you can choose the address you want to use as the sender.

So, isn't it a good idea to focus your emails on a single service?