Email To Email

I admit it, I am an email junky. Way back when I used Windows XP I took advantage of the Identity feature in Outlook Express and setup each email account in a separate Identity. It was so handy! I had separate accounts for friends and family, a number of Yahoo Groups (different Groups, separate email addresses) and business emails.

Fast forward to Vista, Windows 7 and now Windows 8. No more Outlook Express! I could have multiple accounts in Windows Live Mail, Thunderbird and Outlook. But it seemed to be a bit unwieldy and finally I decided to consolidate emails accounts into just one or two accounts.

I could have just notified everyone of the new email address, but since there are so many folks I would have to notify that didn't seem to be a really good option for me.

So I decided to try email forwarding from one account to another. I have two Gmail accounts, so I set up forwarding in Gmail and sent both of my Gmail accounts to an outlook.com account.

Gmail’s forwarding

To setup forwarding in Gmail, go to Settings.



Next click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP link.



Now setup the forward by entering the email address  and selecting how you want Gmail to handle it.



Don’t forget to save the changes! (Scroll down!to find the Save Changes button.)

I like Gmail's SPAM filters, the best available anywhere. (I wonder, if Gmail can do it, why can't the rest?) But I don't particularly like Gmail's web interface and I hate the way they use 'Labels' instead of separate folders.

If you really like Gmail and want to read all your email there,  you can also setup importing an email address/addresses into Gmail.



You can also import all the mail and your contacts as well, Click add a POP3 mail account you own to start receiving mail from the imported account.



You will have to enter your credentials for the import.



Email forwarding has made my email life less complicated. Now I can read all my email in just one place.