
Click the Compose button in Gmail, and you can now choose to send emails from your old or your new Gmail address.

You did it! You can now send and receive email from your old Gmail account in your new one. Open your old Gmail account again, find the confirmation email from Google, and copy the confirmation code-then switch back to your new Gmail account and paste it into the verification window. Gmail will send a confirmation code to your old email address. Pick your poison, and follow the instructions below.Ħ. While you’ll be able to receive emails from your old account in the new one, you'll need to use another email app to copy over your email archive and won’t be able to send emails from your old account’s email address. The second method-moving your old emails to your new address and switching to only use the new account-requires less troubleshooting but isn’t as straightforward. Unfortunately, Google’s security measures make the first approach prone to error, so while it’s ideal, it may require a lot of troubleshooting.

It’s ideal because it will automatically pull all of the archived emails from your old account into the new or main account, and it will allow you to send and receive email from both your old and new accounts. The first method is adding your old Gmail account to your new one, where you can send and receive emails from both accounts inside your new Gmail account. There are two ways to merge Gmail accounts.
