By Mitch “Google Guy” Keeler

Need help with importing your e-mail accounts into Gmail so that you can use Gmail as your e-mail client of choice? As long as you follow along (step by step) this should be an easy thing to do. Now why would you want to do this?

Well for an example you might really enjoy the Gmail interface? You want to have access to multiple accounts at the same time via webmail? The reasons are endless.

Setting up and using Gmail’s mail fetcher is easy and free. Won’t cost you a penny.

Step #1:
Click Settings from the top of any email page.

Step #2:
Click Accounts.

Step #3:
In the Get mail from other accounts section, click Add another mail account.

Step #4:
Enter the full email address of the account you’d like to access (you@yourdomain.com), then click Next Step.

Step #5:
Google will populate the Username and POP Server fields when possible, based on your email address. If you have problems later on down the road you might try changing it to “yourdomain.com” or “mail.yourdomain.com”. Next enter your password for the e-mail account in question. After you do that, click on Add Account.

To edit your account after it is setup, login to Gmail and then go to Settings and then the Accounts tab. Look for the section titled: Get mail from other accounts. Next to your e-mail address click on edit info to change your setting or Check mail now to manually have Gmail check for new e-mail. You can also click on View history to get a log of the last 4 times Gmail has downloaded mail from that account.

Hint: Double check and make sure your not leaving a version of the e-mail on the server (unless you want to). If no messages are being downloaded this can often cause your e-mail account to run out of space - and causing you problems with e-mail later on down the road.

Also be sure to follow the POP3 e-mail setup advice that comes with your Lunarpages welcome e-mail. For more information about using Gmail with your own e-mail account check out these links:

Gmail Help Discussion:
http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Discussion

Gmail Support:
http://mail.google.com/support/

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