How to Gmailify Non-Google Email

Admit it. You lot've got four or 5 email addresses that you never cheque, or when you practise you're overwhelmed by the many unlike interfaces between Yahoo, Outlook, Hotmail, etc. Google lets you link your non-Google email accounts so that you tin accept advantage of Gmail features.

To become the spam filtering, automated sorting of email based on type, advanced search options, and travel alerts appearing in Google Now, you lot'll demand to link all your email accounts nether the Gmail roof. It's remarkably like shooting fish in a barrel to do, if y'all follow a few simple steps.

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ane. Open the Gmail app on your smartphone and tap the three lines on the top left.

2. Tap the down pointer adjacent to your email address at the top of the screen.

3. Tap Add Account.

four. Select Personal, to connect a Yahoo or Outlook e-mail address. Then tap Side by side.

5. Enter your email accost and tap Next.

vi. Take the terms and weather.

7. Fix the sync frequency by tapping the arrow. You lot can select Never, Every 15 Minutes, Every 30 Minutes or Every Hour. Then tap Next.

8. Confirm your data is correct and tap Next.

Now you'll be able to toggle between diverse email accounts, while taking advantage of Gmail's unified formatting and features, including car sorting into folders.

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