Associate Email Addresses with a Google Account

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Associate Email Addresses with a Google Account

Alternate email addresses are useful if you forget the password of your Google Account and now you can add more than one. In your account, click on Edit next to "Personal information" and associate additional email addresses with your Google Account. Note that you can't add email addresses already associated with another Google Account or Gmail addresses.

After you associate an email address with your account, Google sends a confirmation message to authenticate that the address is actually yours. An added benefit is that your other email addresses are connected to your account and Google can use this information: for example, Google Calendar shows you the invitations sent to any of the associated email addresses. You can also log in by using any of the additional email addresses.

{ Thanks, Anonymous. }

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11 comments ( Post a comment )

jay said on January 20, 2008 6:22 AM PDT:

So is this going to help us own domain types to use calendar?

Alex Rodriguez said on January 20, 2008 7:05 AM PDT:

Interesting, I wonder if this is the answer/solution for Google Apps users?

grantpe said on January 20, 2008 7:54 AM PDT:

If you already have the email associated with your gmail account to allow gmail to send mail from it on your behalf, you cann't add it again here. If you add it here, it doesn't seem to appear there. Even on the same account.

Ionut Alex Chitu said on January 20, 2008 8:10 AM PDT:

I don't think the "send mail as" feature from Gmail has anything to do with this. Make sure that the email address you're trying to add is not associated with a Google Account (for example, all Gmail addresses are connected to a Google account).

Zoli Erdos said on January 20, 2008 10:00 AM PDT:

I don't know if this will help the "domain types" (Jay, Alex), but I've recently discovered a somewhat similar solution, not adding addtional email addresses, but completely replacing the gmail login with the domain one, and now all my Apps, including Calendar work correctly.

BoilingOil said on January 21, 2008 3:16 PM PDT:

@grantpe:

I did exactly that the other day, and it worked fine.

Also: Adding an address that I did not use to send mail from using Gmail, I found that Gmail automatically brought up that option as well, sending a confirmation mail to that new address to allow me to send mail through it as well.

As a conclusion of the above:
@Ionut: yes, it does! :)

cameronpenn88 said on January 22, 2008 1:40 PM PDT:

@boilingoil:
No, Ionut is right. This is something different than the send-mail-as feature in gmail. This is linking an email address to your google account, not to your gmail account. (I know the difference is subtle.) Note though, that when you do one, google does not automatically do the other.

Jake said on January 23, 2008 4:39 PM PDT:

Now if google just had a way to consolidate all the various Google IDs I have into one usable one as I can't always remember which e-mail address I used to log in to which Google service (analytics, adwords, groups, etc..)

sechrest said on January 28, 2008 7:31 PM PDT:

Does this allow you to solve the googlegroups issue of not being able to post to a google group because the "sent email" is not the same email as the email subscribed to the group, even though google knows that you are the same email address?

comment gravity well said on October 4, 2008 6:25 AM PDT:

After adding a new associate email

- and verifying it
- it is essential to logout
- login
- before alternate address is available in "group settings" drop downs

YMMV

valarmathi said on February 4, 2009 6:17 AM PDT:

how can i create the dynamic virtual domain on the server.

What do you think?

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