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Gmail Silently Add External POP Support

Now you can read your external POP email account from your Gmail reader, very practical if you want to use your original Gmail account and don't like to adopt the Google for your domain option. Currently Gmail allow you to fetch emails from up to 5 additional accounts, and there is a notice that the features have been enabled to a very limited number of users, so if you are one of them you should be able to see the feature in Settings, Accounts:

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Gmail allows you to fetch mail from your other, non-Gmail accounts. You'll be able to read email from up to 5 additional accounts, all in one place, and take advantage of all of Gmail's great features. Note that the email accounts you would like to fetch will need to support POP access. Some free email services don't support POP access at this time.

You can read more about adding external POP accounts into your Gmail account. We have took screenshots of different screens, Enjoy !

First enter your external email address
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Set the different settings username, password, server ...
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That's everything, if you see the account created you should see emails added to your mailbox. You'll have the choice to send email with your new email address from Gmail.
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You simply add the name you want to appear
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And then Gmail will ask you to verify
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This is the last step, click on the link in your mailbox, or grab the code and you are done!
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