But what about messages still going to your old email address(es)? You don’t have to notify all your contacts that your email address has changed—again. Gmail is not only an email host, it’s an email client. GMail can get mail from any number of external services and consolidate it all right there in your Gmail inbox.

Here’s how to move your email to Gmail without missing a single message from an existing account.

Receive messages for other addresses in your Gmail inbox

There are two ways to receive email from other addresses in Gmail: using Gmail’s Mail Fetcher feature or by forwarding your other addresses’ mail to Gmail automatically.

Option 1: Set Up Gmail’s POP Mail Fetcher

Most likely your former email provider offers POP (Post Office Protocol) access for retrieving messages for it. Gmail’s Mail Fetcher feature can retrieve those messages via POP and display them in your Inbox alongside messages that come directly to your Gmail address, too. You can fetch email from up to five other email addresses via POP in Gmail.

To use Gmail’s Mail Fetcher, your old email account must offer POP access. Not all free addresses offer POP, but most do. Check the other account’s settings or contact customer support to find out if POP access is available on your non-Gmail account.

You’ll need four settings:

• the POP server address,
• port,
• your username and
• password.

Also, if you haven’t already, you’ll need to sign up for a free Gmail account at http://gmail.com.

Once you’re logged into your Gmail account, …
configure Mail Fetcher to retrieve messages from your old account. Here’s how…

From the top of any page within Gmail, click Settings.
Click Accounts.
In the Get mail from other accounts section, click Add another mail account.
Enter the full email address of the account you’d like to access, then click Next Step.
Gmail will fill in the username, POP server and port fields when possible, based on the email address, as shown. Enter your password.
If Gmail will be the single place you check mail, uncheck the box labeled “Leave a copy of retrieved messages on the server.” If you want to access the other mail from other software (or if you’re just using Gmail as a backup), do check this box.
You can also set options to use SSL (a secure connection) to retrieve mail (some servers support this, others don’t) and whether or not to label or archive incoming messages.
Once your options are set, click Add Account.

Gmail will issue an error if your username, password or other settings are incorrect.
Once Gmail can fetch messages successfully, it will give you the option to set up a custom From: address. (See the section below for more on that.)
Note: Gmail checks for new messages at different rate, depending on previous mail fetch attempts. You can’t customize the default frequency of mail fetches.

Option 2: Forward messages to Gmail automatically

If your old address doesn’t offer POP access—or you have more than 5 addresses you’d like to consolidate in Gmail—you can set your former address to automatically forward messages to Gmail instead. The exact way to do this will differ depending on your email account, but if your provider offers auto-forwarding, it will most likely be listed in your account options area.

Unfortunately Hotmail does not allow you to auto-forward email to any address outside of Microsoft services.

Write messages from non-Gmail addresses

Now that you’ve got email addressed to several different accounts arriving in your single Gmail inbox, you may want to use those various From: addresses when replying to those messages. For someone who maintains several different online personas - but accesses them all in Gmail - the option to use various From: addresses when sending mail is crucial.

Here’s how to set up multiple From: addresses once you’re logged into Gmail:

Click Settings along the top of any page, and then select the Accounts tab.
Click Add another email address in the Send mail as section.
Enter your full name in the Name field, and the email address you’d like to send messages from in the Email address field.
Click Next Step >> and then click Send Verification to complete the process. Gmail will send a verification message to your other email address to confirm that you’d like to add it to your Gmail account. If you are already receiving this mail in Gmail, it will appear in your Inbox. Click the link in that message, or enter the confirmation code in the Accounts section of your Gmail account, to complete the process.

You can add several possible From: addresses to your Gmail account.

Set one as your default for new messages, and you can also set the From: name and a different reply-to address if you’d like (by clicking “edit info.”)

Once you’ve verified that you’d like to add the address to your account, you can start sending messages using your custom ‘From:’ address. When you click Compose, you can choose the From: address to use from the dropdown list shown.

Note: Your Gmail address will be included in the email headers of your message in the sender field … this is important as it helps to prevent your mail from being marked as spam. Most email clients do not display the sender field, though some versions of Microsoft Outlook may display “From customaddress@domain.com on behalf of yourusername@gmail.com”

For further consolidation of your emails from your desktop:

It is now possible to upload all your old mail from your desktop clients such as Outlook, Outlook Express and ThunderBird using the official Gmail Tool called Google Email Uploader available for download from [mail.google.com]
This is one of the more useful features in GMail. Really helps people who have been around for a long time and have email addresses all over the ‘net.

If you want to use Gmail and Thunderbird interchangeably for all your email accounts, the best thing to do is to set up Gmail to collect email for all your accounts (or set up your custom domain to redirect/forward to a single Gmail address), and then access that single Gmail account in Thunderbird via IMAP.

As a Member, you can then invite your friends, colleagues, clients, … really anyone … to become a Member of Mexican Gold too.

When they purchase one of our services… and you are enrolled in that service too… your contract for the service will be extended for an extra month. In fact every time they pay to renew their service, your service contract is extended for one more month.

Better yet, if you both are enrolled in more than one of our services, your contract is extended for another month for EACH service when your friend pays for his service.

Twelve month contracts are better
Most of our services are offered with either a six month or twelve month contract. When you have purchased the twelve month contract for a service, and your friend purchases a six month contract, you receive a one month bonus extension of your contract. But when they purchase a twelve month contract, … and you have a twelve month contract, you receive TWO months as a bonus extension on your contract. If you have only a six month contract, and they purchase a twelve month contract, you will receive only ONE bonus month. It pays to have twelve month contracts yourself, so you can enjoy the double bonus when your friends pay for a twelve month contract.

Just think … if you were to invite 12 of your friends to become members, and they signed up for the same services as you, each would count for one extra month (with everyone on six month contracts) … a total of twelve months… You get your service FREE!

Your Bonus Code is the key…
When you enroll as a member, we will provide you with your ‘bonus code’… a unique series of numbers and letters … that you provide to anyone you invite to become a member. On the Member sign up form, they are advised to enter your ‘bonus code’ so that they can receive 10% off all their purchases for the first 30 days. When they register with your ‘bonus code’, they automatically become one of ‘your’ Members, and when they purchase any of our products or services all the credits are automatically added to your account.

It’s easy… All you have to do is invite your friends… and provide them with your ‘bonus code’. Everything else is automatic… and you receive all the credit for as long as you and your friends remain members of Mexican Gold.

This is our way of saying “Thank you for supporting us!” … by simply inviting your friends to do business with us too.

Have a fantastic day!

I spent a long time trying to decide what you would like for the first blog article… there are so many ideas that I have for what Mexican Gold is about to become. Where should I begin?

Finally I decided to give you something really different…

Mexican Gold is going to be all about creation, growth, new developments… for you, your family, and your business.

And just the other day, I experienced a very special video… and I have included it below for you.

Enjoy the video…

“The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what human beings have achieved.”

Bertrand Russell

Remember, today is the first day of the rest of your life… what are you going to create today?

I am creating Mexican Gold to assist you in creating whatever your dreams may be.

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