How do I use my primary gmail account to receive mail from my other accounts?

Id like to use my primary gmail account to receive the mail sent to my other email accounts; is this possible?
How do I use my primary gmail account to receive mail from my other accounts?
yes this is defintely possible if your other accounts are webmail based (hotmail, yahoo, etc) or if they are supplied with a domain name management system that you control (www.yourname.com)





Go on the web interface, to the options of your mail account (where you can set your name, password, etc)


You should find a section named "redirection" or "mail forward" (on yahoo this is POP Access %26amp; Forwarding) then select the forward option and type your gmail adress.





Hence, all emails sent to your other accounts will be redirected to your gmail adress.





Obviously, if you answer to them from your gmail interface, you will reply with your gmail email, so your contacts will see the gmail email, not the original email they wrote too.





cheers
Reply:Could swear Gmail offered pop3 access to other accounts. Couldn't find it when I just looked. You can send email masquerading as another email address from Gmail. So technically you could forward all of your mail from the server to Gmail. If the sever is a sendmail or other Linux based server this is trivial to do. I've never seen it done on an exchange sever but suspect it's possible to do. In either case you'd have to contact the admin.





If your work server is an Exchange server the odds are good that you could not do this anyway. Exchange uses a propriatory protocol to talk with email clients. Not particulerly secure but different so that you have to use the Outlook client or Ximian's adapter to access it. The entire purpose of the propriatory system that they refuse to release the specs on is an attempt to force you to use Outlook. People have long since hacked the encryption method. There are also open source adaptions to grab mail off an Exchange server. If you were using Linux you could also set up a mail forwarder on your machine. Rather trivial to do and you would not need to bother the admins.





In any case get your email forwarded to Gmail. Then configure your work address into Gmail. Once you've done that you can reply to any message as if from your work server. Whether this really works because of anti-spam software is a question. You may have to avoid doing this to certaim mail servers to avoid having your mail tossed in the spam bucket.