How to merge your Gmail account with you email.iimcal.ac.in account.

This is a guide meant to help users merge their official IIM Calcutta email ID (based on Google Apps) with their normal Gmail ID. With minor modifications it also applied to any other sort of email ID that you might want to merge with Gmail.

Step 1 : Auto-forward from IIMC Mail to your Gmail inbox
1. Login to your IIM Cal email ID.This is the login page. Your username will be something like “abhishekn2010”.
2. Once inside your IIM Calcutta email, click on “settings” on the top right.
3. Then click on “forwarding and POP/IMAP”
4. In the forwarding and POP/IMAP tab, click the radio button for “Forward a copy of incoming mail to” and then in the text box type your standard gmail ID which you plan to use everyday.

Step 2 : Add email.iimcal.ac.in account in your Gmail account
1. Login to your normal Gmail account and click on settings.
2. Then click on “Accounts”
3. Then click on “add another email address”. You will get a popup.
4. In the popup enter your name and your IIM Calcutta email ID.
5. On the next screen click on “Send Verification”
6. You will see a screen asking for the “verification code”. To get this verification code, open your IIM Calcutta ID as specified before and find the code in an email sent from Google. Enter this verification code here. Then click on “verify”.

With this your email IDs are now merged!

Step 3 : Using Merged IIM Cal + Gmail Email

1. All the mails sent to your emai.iimcal.ac.in ID will be automatically forwarded to your gmail ID. Hence you will not miss out on any mails and yet you need to check only one account.
2. If you want to send an email from your email.iimcal.ac.in account, then click on “compose” and you will see a drop down box with your email IDs including your email.iimcal.ac.in ID. You select the ID you want to use and then compose message as before. And you’re good to go!

Additional Notes
1. This method of merging applies to any other kinds of email ID too. You can merge your Gmail with Yahoo, Hotmail etc.
2. You can add a default “send” account from settings -> accounts.
3. The standard option is “Always reply from my default address (currently xxxxx@gmail.com). You can change this from settings -> accounts.

Hope you find this guide useful.

August 24th, 2008 / 4 Comments / Trackback