Moving from your ISP provided email to Gmail. Part 1: setting up Gmail to check your ISP for new mail
By Jin Nan Goto
leaving behind your old email address can be a very distressing and painful experience. Many have been using the same email account given to them by their ISP for years and the address is known to all their friends and family. The fear of missing messages sent to that address is a strong incentive to put up with the lousy service provided by their ISP. Now, there are many better solutions for email but making the change can still be daunting.
Google’s GMail is a particularly good replacement for the old ISP email . It’s free, has a lot of features including some pretty good anti-spam filtering. GMail also gives an constantly increasing amount of storage. Right now, it’s past 7GB which is easily twice the storage that your ISP might offer.
Please note, The following tip will only work for email accounts using POP3. It will not work for a lot of webmail accounts.
Set up Gmail to check mail on your old ISP account:
- login to gmail and click “Settings” on the top right corner of the page.
- Select the “Accounts and Import”” tab
- Click the “Add POP3 email account” button from the Check mail using POP3 section.
Next type in the email address that you would like GMail to check.
Lastly all you need to do is type in the setting for the email account using the username/password and ports given by your ISP or email provider.
