Making Gmail Your Email Hub..

This gives how u gotta make gmail as a mail hub. Many people have got many Email addresses on your desktop or notebook computer. A Yahoo! Mail account here, a Hotmail account there, maybe one from your ISP or your personal Web domain. And you undoubtedly know how frustrating and time onsuming it can be trying to access all of your different email accounts -- you jump around the Web, dealing with multiple passwords and Web sites.
It would be much easier if you could access the email on all your accounts from a single place, regardless of where you are or whose computer system you're using. Gmail, Google's email service, lets you do just that. With Gmail as your email hub, you can not only receive email from other accounts, but also send messages using those email addresses. The best part is that it's easy to do, and once the deed is done, you can take advantage of Gmail's features with any email account. Getting Started The first thing you'll need, obviously, is a Gmail account. While Gmail was originally invitation only, you can now quickly sign up for an account. Once that's out of the way, you're ready to go. Log into Gmail, and then click the Settings link. On Settings page, click the Accounts tab. Then, find and click the Add another mail account link. A new window opens. This window is the first page of a wizard that walks you through the process of adding another email account to Gmail. Type the email address of the account that you want to add to Gmail in the Email address field, and then click the Next Step button. On the next page, you're asked to provide some basic information about the account that you want to add. The most important of these are user name, password, and POP server. Usually, the POP server information is automatically added, but you should double check it to be sure. You also have the option of leaving a copy of messages in the inbox of your other account, and to use secure connection. I usually say no to the first, and yes to the second. Click the Add Account button. On the next page of the wizard, you'll be asked if you want to send messages from Gmail using this account. The default is yes, and really there's no reason why you wouldn't want to do this. Click the Next Step button to continue. In order to let Gmail send messages using the email account that you added, the service needs to verify that you actually own the account. On the next page of the wizard, click the Send verification button. Gmail sends a verification message to the email address that you added. To acknowledge the verification, click the link in the message. Once that's done, you're old email address is added to Gmail and you're ready to go. Once the account is added, you can send messages using it by clicking the Compose Mail link. In the mail composition window, you'll notice that the From field is actually a drop-down list. Just select the address that you want to use from the list. Remember, though, the Gmail (obviously) uses your Gmail address as the default for the From field. It takes a bit of time to adjust to choosing the email address that you want to use, but once you do it becomes second nature. Dealing with Yahoo! Mail No matter how well things may go, there's always one fly in the ointment. In this case, it's Yahoo! Mail. Yahoo! Mail presents a couple of challenges when you want to add an email address to your Gmail account-challenges that many other email services, like Hotmail, don't present. First off, you need to enable POP access in Yahoo! Mail before you can try giving Gmail access to your account. All this means is that your account is accessible from any Web-based mail interface or desktop email client that you authorize. If you don't enable this option, you'll get an error message when you try to add your Yahoo! Mail account to Gmail. To enable POP access, log into your Yahoo! Mail account and click Options. Then, click POP Access and Forwarding. Click the Web & POP Access option, and then click OK. Depending on the Yahoo! Mail domain that you're using, the POP access options might not be available. What about spam? Regardless of how good your spam filters are, or are supposed to be, at least a couple of messages that you don't want always seem to find their way into your inbox. Gmail will, of course, grab everything out of another address's inbox -- including spam. But Gmail's spam filters are some of the best that I've seen, and in my experience 98% of spam from an external email address is automatically shunted to your Gmail account's Spam folder. Get Signed In Like many people, you probably have an email signature --identifying the sender of a message -- for each of your email accounts. Unfortunately, Gmail only supports one signature. If you want to keep your unique signatures, you'll have to turn to the Firefox Web browser. Firefox has a great little extension called Signature which lets you define multiple email signatures. Once you have your signatures set up, you just right-click in the message composition window, select a signature from the list, and it's added to your message. It's easy to make Gmail your email hub. Not only do you get to use all of your email addresses from one location, you can take advantage of all of Gmail's features no matter what email service you use.

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