How to use multiple email accounts in Gmail

Sometimes we face certain situations where we wish if we could compose an email from another email account while using the same email we are logged into. For eg: if you are inside your abc@gmail.com and you want to send mails from xyz@yahoo.com  In this post we will discuss how to add multiple email accounts in your Gmail. 

Log into your gmail account. Look at top right and click on the “gear” <!--more-->symbol to choose “Mail Settings”. It looks some thing like this:

Now go in “Mail Settings” and there choose the “Accounts” tab. Here you can see many options like Adding another email address as your own (with this you can compose from another email inside gmail. for eg: if you are inside your abc@gmail.com you can send mails from xyz@yahoo.com), you can get emails from other email addresses (for eg. inside your abc@gmail.com you can receive mailsfrom xyz@yahoo.com), you can grant account access to others (for eg. your account can be read by your secretory and she/he can reply to the mails on your behalf), you can change the default name of your gmail account.

Here click on “Add another email address you own“. Provide the other email you want to use inside this gmail.

Click on “Next Step” which will then ask for your permission to send a verification mail to the added email address. Click on “Send Verification“.

A verification link will be sent to the specified email address. There are two ways to verify it. Either click on the link provided in the verification mail or copy the verification code sent in the mail and paste it into dialogue box that appeared after clicking “Send Verification”.

When you have successfully verified the newly added email address, you can see the one is reflected in your account settings. You can use it as the default mail (by default this mail will be used to send the messages) or secondary mail (your wish).

Now when we have different emails inside one gmail account, let see how to use it. Click on “Compose” to write a new mail. In there you can see a drop-down menu in “From” section of composing a mail. Here you can choose the email address you want to use to send the mail.

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