Step 1: Add A Second Email Address
- In your Primary (the one you want to send and receive all of your mail from) Gmail account click Settings at the top right hand corner of your screen.
- Click the Accounts tag.
- Select Reply from the same address the message was sent to under When I receive a message sent to one of my addresses:
- Click Add another email address. A window will pop up.
- Fill in the correct information for your secondary email account and click Next Step.
- Click Send Verification. Close the pop-up window.
- Switch to the Secondary email account and click the verification link in the email sent from Gmail.
Step 2: Forward Incoming Mail
- Still in your Secondary email account, click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tabfound under Settings at the top right corner of the screen.
- Type your Primary email address in the Forward a copy of incoming mail to box.
- Then pick an option from the drop-down list:
- keep Gmail’s copy in the Inbox
- archive Gmail’s copy
- delete Gmail’s copy - Click Save Changes.
Step 3: Create a Label
- Switch to your Primary email account, scroll to the bottom of the page and look for the Labels box on the left-hand side of the window.
- Click Edit labels at the bottom of the Labels box.
- Click in the box under Create a new label: and type a name for your label. You could use the actual email address if you want.
- Click Create.
Step 4: Create a Filter
- Still in the Primary email account, click the Filters tab, which is next to the Labels tab, and then click Create a new filter.
- Type your secondary email address in the To: box.
- Click Next Step.
- Click in the box next to Skip Inbox to select it.
- Click in the box next to Apply the label: to select it and pick the label you created from the drop-down list.
- Click Create Filter.
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