Tech Hive

I know that I am extremely late with this one already, but indulge me because I’m so excited I found this feature of GMail. Ever since the little mishap I had just recently with last leaf moving to a new server, I’ve been looking for ways to download my mails from my webmail to Gmail since I rarely use the PC at home where I have thunderbird. Plus, squirrelmail does not have the best interface in the world. So when I saw that I can fetch my mail from another server, I’m ecstatic!

Fetching your mails from your other service provider to your gmail account is easy, just follow these steps: (click on the images to view the full-sized image)

1. Go to Settings > Accounts, there you will see various options for your account such as adding another email address, upgrading your storage (the current is at 5G, who needs more, really?) and what we’re after: Get mail from other accounts. Just click on the “Add another mail account link.”

   

2. A popup window will appear that will be asking you for your email address, (e.g. aaa@tech-hive.com). Just type it in and click on the Next Step button.

   

3. The next window will ask for details for your new email account such as your password, POP server, and port. It will also ask you what you want to do with the messages that will be downloaded from that account, as always, you have 4 choices:

   

   1. Leave a copy of retrieved message on the server. Usually, when a message is downloaded from an account to a mail fetcher, the message will be archived (or deleted).
   2. Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail.
   3. Label incoming messages: [email address]. That is the default, but you may change it to whatever you like. As for me, I did not checked it off, rather I created several filters so the messages will be filed accordingly.
   4. Archive incoming messages (Skip the inbox)

And that’s all there is to it! Easy, isn’t it? You have to wait for a couple of minutes for the messages to be retrieved, after that, Gmail will automagically download your messages every 10 minutes. Too bad though, I wish there’re other options that will enable me to probably download them once a day or every hour… or every minute hehe.