Get Gmail features for your other email accounts

If you accept a Yahoo, AOL, Outlook, Hotmail, or select non-Gmail accounts, use Gmailify to get many of Gmail's features with that address.

To practice this, you'll demand to link your account to Gmail. After you link your business relationship, you'll see all your letters in your Gmail inbox, plus these changes:

  • Spam protection
  • Improve mail notifications on mobile
  • Automated email sorting based on blazon (Social, Updates, Promotions)
  • Faster search, with advanced search operators

Note:If you link another account to an existing Gmail account, y'all might reach your storage limit. Learn how to clear your Google storage.

Link your address to Gmail

  1. On your computer, open Gmail.
  2. In the pinnacle right, click Settings Settingsand then See all settings.
  3. Click theAccounts and ImportorAccounts tab.
  4. In the "Check post from other accounts" section, click Add together a postal service business relationship.
  5. Type the e-mail address you want to link, then click Adjacent.
  6. Select Link business relationship with Gmail (Gmailify), then click Side by side.
  7. Follow the steps on the screen, then click Side by side or Sign in.

After y'all link your account, "Gmailify" will appear next to your electronic mail address. When you open Gmail, you'll exist able to read, reply to, and organize messages from your other account just similar you lot do in Gmail.

Unlink your address

  1. On your computer, open Gmail.
  2. In the acme right, click Settings Settingsand then Encounter all settings.
  3. Click Accounts and Import.
  4. In the "Cheque mail from other accounts" section, click unlink.

After you unlink your other account from Gmail, you can choose to keep or delete copies of your other account's letters in your Gmail inbox.

  • If you delete copies from Gmail, they'll still exist in the inbox of your other service (for case, Yahoo or Hotmail).
  • If you keep copies in Gmail, they'll stay in your Gmail business relationship. However, if y'all move or delete them in Gmail, these actions won't be reflected in your other account.

Find emails from your other business relationship in Gmail

Gmail might organize your messages differently from other email services.

Empty trash limit

Messages in your "Trash" won't necessarily exist deleted according to Gmail'due south thirty-solar day limit, just according to the "Empty trash" limit of your other postal service service.

For case, if your other email service keeps a message in "Trash" for 60 days before permanently deleting it, you'll see the message in Gmail "Trash" for 60 days.

Archived emails

When you lot archive an email in Gmail, information technology'due south stored in a new "Annal" folder in your other email service.

To find archived messages in your other account, check the "Annal" folder.

Labels and folders

When you add a label to a message, you'll see a folder with that label name in your other email account. For example, if you lot added a "Piece of work" label to a message in Gmail, you can find the message in a folder called "Work" in your other e-mail account.

If you add multiple labels to a message, you'll run into multiple folders that each have a re-create of the message.

Note: Don't add multiple labels to your messages if you accept limited storage space in your non-Gmail account.

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