Leave Gmail as the default mailbox for many email addresses

If you own multiple email accounts, you may want to control all your emails in one place. A function of Gmail that allows you to import emails from services like Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, AOL Mail . on this service.

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Log in to your Gmail account> click on the Options icon (cog wheel)> Mail settings . Then, in the heading group above you select Accounts and Import > click the Import mail and contacts button (Enter mail and contacts). In the window that appears, provide the email account you want to control (for example, abc@hotmail.com ) and click Continue . Then, enter the password of that account and click Continue .

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Continue, select the options you want to import: Import contacts , Import mail , Import new mail for next 30 days (Enter new mail for the next 30 days ), Add labell to all imported mail (Add labels to all imported mail ) and click Start import . Finish, click OK to close the window. All contacts will be imported immediately, however, it will take several hours or up to 2 days for the letter to complete the import process. You can check the import status at Accounts and Accounts and Import .

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Two days later, you will receive a message informing you that the import process has completed and a new label is created with the name of the account you just installed, you can access all the messages. Your import in it. Also, when you want Gmail to stop importing email, go back to Account and Enter and press stop on that account. Similarly, you perform the steps guided above to import other emails.

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When this function is used, you can set account abc@hotmail.com or other import email addresses as Gmail's default mailing address, which means that when you write and send it later, it will be send in the name of the address abc@hotmail.com . To do so, from the Account and Enter you look down at the Send mail field with the address> select set as default next to that address, or select delete if you want to remove this account.