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Send emails from your own email address for free with google mail

It’s quite useful to be able to send and receive emails from your own email address (e.g. sales@yourbusiness.com), trouble is, this normally attracts a charge from your email provider.  In addition getting access to your emails while on the road could also prove to be difficult.Using Google Mail you can set it up so that your emails are picked up by Google Mail and you can send your business emails from Google Mail also, there are a number of steps in setting it up, but they’re quite straightforward:

1. Sign up for a Google Account, this gives you access to Google Mail, then log in.
2. Click on the ‘Settings’ button on the top right of the screen.
3. Click on ‘Accounts’.
4. Click on ‘Add another email address you own’, a window will open, enter your details for the business email address.
5. You’ll be asked to verify this email address by having an email with a special link send to the business email address, log into your business email via the usual methods and click on the link, your email address will then be verified.
6. Now you should be back the the Accounts screen in Google Mail, click on ‘Add a mail account you own’ in the ‘Get mail from other accounts‘ section underneath, enter your business email address.
7. Now you’ll be asked for details about your email address, such as the username and the password, etc, remember that in a lot of cases, your username is your whole email address (e.g. sales@yourbusiness.com), you should be supplied any details that are required for this step.  Click on ‘ Label incoming messages’, this will allow you to easily distinguish personal emails from business ones, etc. Click on ‘Add Account’ when you’re done.

Now, any email that gets sent to your business email address (e.g. sales@yourbusiness.com) will get pulled into your Google Mail account (yourbusiness@googlemail.com), allowing you to send and receive emails from your own branded email address, while retaining all the functionality if the Google Mail service, magic!

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