I love Gmail! Not only because it’s fast, but it manages all of my emails in one place! For example, at my school, Cal State L.A., uses web-based Microsoft Outlook to handle its emails and gives only about 10MB of space to each email account. Everytime I wanted to check my @calstatela.edu mail, I have to go to mymail.calstatela.edu

It’s not that it’s not easy to remember, but imagine that I have 10+ emails to keep track, and since it’s only has 10MB of space, I barely use it other than if for some reason my school send notifications to that email. I would imagine if I use it and there’s an incoming important e-mail, but my inbox is full?? Lastly, it got a bunch of spams and requires me to use IE to use the better version of it..

So, here’s 3 simple steps to add my @calstatela.edu email to my Gmail:

Gmail-Magic

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At this point, I could send email as @calstatela.edu from Gmail! But, I also have to set it up such that incoming mail to my @calstatela.edu is not stored there, but forwarded directly to my Gmail. That means your inbox size is the same as the inbox size that is provided by Gmail (which as now, is about 7300MB and counting..) Here’s another simple 3 steps to do it in Outlook:

Outlook-Rules

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I hope that this post is helpful and make our academic life to be more productive with Gmail!

Note: You might wonder on why I kept saying to my @gmail but you always see @laksmono.com in these images. I’m using Google Apps to manage my domain, which by definition is a set of Google applications, where one of them is Gmail (which handles the email part) for organization, but these steps are exactly the same as if it’s Gmail. Instead of forwarding to your_name@yourdomain.com, forward it to your_name@gmail.com to get all of the Gmail features! If you have your own domain, then you need to use Google Apps, which should be on it’s own tutorial.. :)