It is a fact that people may have more than one email account. I have atleast 4 different email accounts with different service providers like Yahoo!, Gmail, Hotmail, AOL etc. However, to keep updated on all the new mail that keeps coming in to your various accounts, you need to log in to each of these sites separately or use a software like Thunderbird or Outlook to sync and collect all the mails.

However, if you are an avid Gmail fan like I am, then you can collect all the mail from your other accounts and view them in your Gmail Inbox without logging in for each site. Here’s how you do it:

• First, Log in to your Gmail account
• Click on the Settings option at the Top Right Corner
• Click on the Accounts Tab
• From the Get mail from other accounts: Click on Add another mail account to get a popup window
• Enter your email ID (e.g. myemailid@yahoo.com) and click next
  
• Now, Gmail will attempt to fill in the POP Server and Port by itself using defaults for the service provider. However, if the details seem to be wrong, then you can type in the right ones
• Enter the password for the account
• Click on add account and you are good to go.

The email accounts you add will then be checked by Gmail on a periodic basis and the mails will be retrieved from there and stored in your Gmail account. However, the frequency of checking will be based only on previous mail checks and you can’t set it. You can cancel the mail fetching by simply deleting the email accounts from the Accounts Tab.

You are also provided options to label or archive the incoming messages from a specific email ID in order to distinguish them from the rest. You are given the option to save the retrieved email messages in your other email account or delete them as soon as they are retrieved. Finally, there is an option to retrieve the mail by using a Secure Connection to prevent interceptions if your email provider supports the feature.

Also, I did test this for Yahoo! Mail and I found that the POP service is only available for Yahoo! Mail Plus users. The other email accounts seem to be working though. Do tell me if you would find this feature useful or if you’ve used it before. Thanks for reading!

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