How to sync all your email accounts

If you want to spend as little time as possible checking email, siphon messages from all your accounts into one dashboard. Instead of flicking between different apps and devices, get your accounts to pipe emails into one place ready for reading and sorting. Here’s how to go about it, whether you prefer using your smartphone or your computer.

Syncing emails on Android

Gmail is the default email app for Android, which is convenient because it does a stellar job pulling together emails from various accounts. Messages from the Google account you used to set up the phone appear by default, but you can add other email accounts too, whether they’re with Gmail or not.

Open the app then tap the menu button (three horizontal lines, top left), then choose Settings. Tap Add account, then work through the setup process on screen: You’re asked to choose the email provider, like Outlook or Yahoo (tap Other if yours isn’t shown), then you need to enter your login credentials.

On the final screen of the account setup, you can choose how often the account syncs to the Gmail app, and whether new emails prompt notifications. When you’re done, you can start sending and receiving emails from the Gmail app.

Tap the app menu button and choose All inboxes to see messages from all your accounts mixed in with your default Gmail account: The search box at the top searches through all your accounts, the sent folder shows sent emails from all your accounts, and so on. If you need to see or search through an individual account, tap your Google account avatar (top right) then choose the account from the list.

Syncing emails on Windows

If you use a Microsoft account to sign into Windows, then you’ll find the bundled Mail app is already populated with your Microsoft (Outlook) emails. If you don’t, adding a Microsoft email account is pretty straightforward, as is associating an account from any other popular email service.

Open up the Mail app from the Start menu (use the search box if you can’t immediately find it), and if you click the cog icon (bottom left) you’ll see a Manage accounts option appear on the right. Click it and then select the Add account option — you can then pick your account type if you see it, or Other if not.

Work through the subsequent dialog boxes to enter your login details for the new account. In most cases it should only take a couple of minutes — you can then select it from the Manage accounts screen to rename it or to change the email sync settings.

While you’re using Mail with multiple email accounts, all the account names are listed on the left of the program, so click any name to view email from that account. You can’t view all your emails from multiple accounts together in one continuous stream through — you’ll need a different client for that (see below).

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