If everything has gone smoothly up to this point, you should be all done for the first half of the process.Leave all other settings as they are, click Add Account Enter the password that you use to login to your school email, make sure that Label incoming messages: is checked, this will visually identify which emails are from your school address and which are from your regular Gmail account.
Enter your school email address and click Next Step.Look down the page and find the Check mail using POP3 section and click Add a POP3 email account.Click on the Settings button at the top right of the screen.
If you run into a problem, check the Troubleshooting section toward the bottom of this post.Ĭonfigure Gmail to receive mail from your university email address: Note: This is not a fool proof process, these steps may not work for you depending on the configuration of your school’s email system. The first thing we want to do is to set up something called POP3 which will pull messages from your school inbox into your Gmail inbox. There are two steps to get everything working. You can even send mail from your school’s email address through Gmail! Ok enough telling you what it can do, and more showing you how to do it. As long as your university’s email system supports the proper protocols, it will be possible to make this happen. I’d highly recommend making one and using it as an email address for life.īut anyway… you are probably here because you already have a Gmail address and you’d like to rip your mail out of your university’s horrible mail manager and get it into your oh-so-awesome Gmail inbox. If you don’t have a Gmail address, making one is simple. It is one of the most advanced email tools out there: it offers a huge amount of storage, has tons of time saving features, and maybe best of all, it’s free. Gmail is wildly popular and for good reason.
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