What this blog needs is a focus. Given my lack of knowledge in most other fields, I have decided to churn out a few tech posts.
Gmail, as you know, is google's email offering. Even though the new interactive versions of yahoo and all are I guess more user-friendly and attractive, there's a few nifty features in gmail which I have started to take for granted and can't imagine otherwise. Notable among them being the facility of easy archiving, the excellent way gmail handles conversations, the chat in the inbox and the superb spam filter. I won't go further, this post is meant to be a walkthrough, not a pro-con evaluation.
Lets make a list of what we wanna/will do -
Its pretty simple actually, just that people don't know about it.
First, in Gmail, go to Settings -> Accounts -> Get mail from other accounts -> Add another mail account. A new window will pop-up asking you for the email address you're going to import mail from. Fill this in and click on "Next Step." Now, some information like POP server and port should automatically be filled. Leave it as is. Fill out the password, check 'Leave a copy of retrieved message on the server.' if you want a copy of each mail be left in your old mailbox, uncheck if you want to delete it from the old mailbox. Choose the labelling and archiving options as required or just leave them as is. Now click Add Account to finish the procedure.
Points to be noted- Your old email client should have POP3(Post Office Protocol) accessing allowed. Eg Rediff does not have it, so don't waste your time if you trying with it. Also, forwarding should be disabled in your old account.
This would complete two of our objectives, the first and third. Don't worry if you don't see your old mail rightaway, it takes a little time. Give it a margin of 1-2 hours.
Now you can search though all your old mail. Also, you might notice that some messages have a '[Bulk]' appended to their subject(depends on your settings in Yahoo). These are mails which yahoo deemed to be spam but gmail thought otherwise. In most cases I have seen, google has the correct opinion.
Second objective is also straight forward, though really cool. You can actually send mail with different 'from' fields while just sitting on one account. Really useful. Just go to Settings -> Accounts -> Send mail as: -> Add another email address. Fill in the required fields and click on "Next Step" and then "Send Verification." You'll receive an email in the old account with instructions on how to validate your old address. Once it's set up, you can select this address in the "From" field when replying or forwarding(only in standard/with chat view of gmail, not in basic HTML).
This feature is really cool as it is not limited by anything, like receiving mail was to POP3 access. So you can have a wide range of 'from' addresses, including your college/companies email id.
When setting-up the sent-id, you might have noticed a 'Specify a different "reply-to" address' option. This is useful sometimes. Like suppose you want to check only you gmail account but use another address to send mail. When the other person replies, you want that to come to the gmail account, but your other account(the one you are sending from) dosnt allow pop forwarding, then you cant set the gmail account as the 'reply-to' address and voilla!
Gmail, as you know, is google's email offering. Even though the new interactive versions of yahoo and all are I guess more user-friendly and attractive, there's a few nifty features in gmail which I have started to take for granted and can't imagine otherwise. Notable among them being the facility of easy archiving, the excellent way gmail handles conversations, the chat in the inbox and the superb spam filter. I won't go further, this post is meant to be a walkthrough, not a pro-con evaluation.
Lets make a list of what we wanna/will do -
- Set gmail to retrieve mail from old account as and when it comes.
- Set gmail to be able to send mails with old account.
- Get all the old mails from the old account to gmail.
Its pretty simple actually, just that people don't know about it.
First, in Gmail, go to Settings -> Accounts -> Get mail from other accounts -> Add another mail account. A new window will pop-up asking you for the email address you're going to import mail from. Fill this in and click on "Next Step." Now, some information like POP server and port should automatically be filled. Leave it as is. Fill out the password, check 'Leave a copy of retrieved message on the server.' if you want a copy of each mail be left in your old mailbox, uncheck if you want to delete it from the old mailbox. Choose the labelling and archiving options as required or just leave them as is. Now click Add Account to finish the procedure.
Points to be noted- Your old email client should have POP3(Post Office Protocol) accessing allowed. Eg Rediff does not have it, so don't waste your time if you trying with it. Also, forwarding should be disabled in your old account.
This would complete two of our objectives, the first and third. Don't worry if you don't see your old mail rightaway, it takes a little time. Give it a margin of 1-2 hours.
Now you can search though all your old mail. Also, you might notice that some messages have a '[Bulk]' appended to their subject(depends on your settings in Yahoo). These are mails which yahoo deemed to be spam but gmail thought otherwise. In most cases I have seen, google has the correct opinion.
Second objective is also straight forward, though really cool. You can actually send mail with different 'from' fields while just sitting on one account. Really useful. Just go to Settings -> Accounts -> Send mail as: -> Add another email address. Fill in the required fields and click on "Next Step" and then "Send Verification." You'll receive an email in the old account with instructions on how to validate your old address. Once it's set up, you can select this address in the "From" field when replying or forwarding(only in standard/with chat view of gmail, not in basic HTML).
This feature is really cool as it is not limited by anything, like receiving mail was to POP3 access. So you can have a wide range of 'from' addresses, including your college/companies email id.
When setting-up the sent-id, you might have noticed a 'Specify a different "reply-to" address' option. This is useful sometimes. Like suppose you want to check only you gmail account but use another address to send mail. When the other person replies, you want that to come to the gmail account, but your other account(the one you are sending from) dosnt allow pop forwarding, then you cant set the gmail account as the 'reply-to' address and voilla!
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