Very often, in the professional sector we handle multiple email accounts beyond our personal account. And it is not at all strange to manage two, three or more email accounts from different areas, whether companies, services or own accounts, both professional and personal. Luckily, we can unify all these accounts into one; so much so, that if we are users of Gmail (one of the most popular and widespread email services owned by Google) for the personal sphere, we can configure other external email accounts to have all the emails in a single account. Therefore, below we offer you a tutorial to configure external accounts in Gmail.
How to unify external accounts in Gmail
Access the Configuration options
The first thing we must do is create a Gmail account if we don't already have one; To do this, go to the Gmail official website, the email service Google, and follow the steps to Create an account.
If you already have your Gmail account operational, click on it gear wheel icon located at the top right of the screen to then access Setting.
Add your other account to Gmail
Now, within the menu Setting, we must access the tab Accounts and import located at the top, the fourth option, between Received and Filters and blocked addresses. Next we must click on the option Import email and contacts, the only entry option Import email and contacts.
Now we must follow the steps shown on the screen; the first thing is Log in with our credentials from the external account that we want to add to Gmail. Enter your email account and password and click on Continue.
Below the system will synchronize emails from both accounts, transferring existing emails from the external account to your main Gmail account.
How to send emails with both accounts
Once your external account is configured in Gmail, we must configure our email user to be able to send emails from both email accounts, in order to continue having the two independent profiles if we so wish.
To do this, go to the entrance Send as from the same tab Accounts and import and click on the option Add another email address. Next we must add the name we want to give to the secondary account and the credentials of said external email account. To confirm the operation, Gmail will send a confirmation code to our external email to complete the configuration in Gmail.
Now both accounts configured will appear in the same entry Send as; To the right of each one, several options will appear such as set as default, edit information and eliminate. Choose which account you want to leave as default. In any case, every time you compose an email, you will be able to choose which user account you want to respond through a small inverted arrow in the email address bar, either with the one you have configured as the default or any of the secondary ones.
Add a signature for each account
Finally, we recommend creating a specific email signature for each account. To do this, go to the tab General of Setting. If you scroll down you will find the entry Signature. Now, through the email account selector, choose the account to which you want to add a specific signature and create it in the box below. It is a very useful option if you have different professional email accounts and want to use one signature or another for certain contacts or companies.
