I know I do.

I have heaps that I regularly check; work, websites, personal.

I decided I had to do something.

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What I first did, was to downloadMozilla Thunderbird.

I set up of all my Hotmail and Gmail accounts and it worked very well.

Thankfully, Gmail had a solution.

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Then, forward all my emails, including those in my Hotmail email account, to that Gmail account.

This way I would be able to access hotmail email from Gmail.

However, this is not a simple as opening Hotmail, go to options and click forward.

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Below, I am going to show you how to download Hotmail emails to Gmail.

key in your email address, and then click next.

Use these parameters to add a Hotmail email account:

Once you are done, select Add Account.

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If you want to send email from the account you just added, verify you click " Yes.

I want to be able to send mail as"".

This allows you select an email address from a drop-down box.

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So now, all email received from your other email accounts will be downloaded to your Gmail Account.

This allows you to access all your emails in one easy location.

So now we have solved the problem of accessing all your mail in one location.

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But how do we now access these emails offline?

If all our emails are being forwarded to one account, how do we split them up?

I’ll cover this in my next post.

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Watch out for it.

Want to learn to be a Gmail ninja and have all the skills necessary to manage your emails?

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