Manage your separate email accounts using Gmail as your email hub

If you have multiple email addresses; yahoo, hotmail, etc. then you can access the email on all your accounts from a single place using Gmail, Google's email service. You can make Gmail your email hub and not only receive email from other accounts, but also send messages using those email addresses.

The first thing you'll need is a Gmail account. Then, log onto Gmail and then click the Settings link. On the settings page, click the Accounts tab. Then find and click the add another email link. A new window opens that is the first page of a wizard that walks you through the process of adding another email account to Gmail.

You will need to provide basic information about the account that you want to add. In order to let Gmail send messages using the email account that you added, the service will need to verify that you actually own the account and will ask to send verification to that account before it is activated. Once the account is added, you can send and access messages from any account by choosing it from the drop-down list.