How to send emails using Gmail with your work ID

With over 1b people using Gmail, I'm guessing a ton of people use the platform to send work mails. You can buy Google for work and get a yourname@yourcompany.com address but this is for connecting your ID to Gmail without any purchases and send emails using your work ID.

When I joined a start-up, we made this default after setting it up for a couple of ourselves.

To make this useful we wanted to achieve 2 goals
1. Get emails to sent to our work ID come into our Gmail inbox
2. To be able to send emails from Gmail with the sender showing your work ID.

Steps:
1. Get emails to sent to our work ID come into our Gmail inbox
- Open your work email inbox. This depends from provider to provider.
- Find general options or forwarding options
- Find an option 'Add a forwarding email address' or similar.
- Enter your Gmail ID and save.

2. To be able to send emails from Gmail with the sender showing your work ID.
- Go to your Gmail and click on the settings icon on the top right usually.
- Under accounts and import option choose 'Add another email address you own'.
- Add your work ID and follow the steps. I have unchecked 'treat as an alias' option during the set up. Anyone knows more about this?
- You will be asked to verify the address and after that you must save the settings.

Result:
Now you get your work emails inside your Gmail inbox + can send mails to other people from your work ID once again without leaving Gmail. Neat.

Testing it:
1. Ask someone to mail to your work ID, you should receive it in Gmail.
2. Send a mail from Gmail with your work ID, you can choose this ID in the compose window. Check if the person receives it the way you wanted it to be.

Let me know if you have anything to add or need help.

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