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Mail Fetcher is Google’s new feature in Gmail, it allows you to fetch mail from your other, non-Gmail accounts such as Yahoo, Outlook and Hotmail accounts. You’ll be able to read email from up to 5 additional accounts.

“Now Gmail can check for the mail you receive at your other email accounts. You can retrieve your mail (new and old) from up to five other email accounts and have them all in Gmail. Then you can even create a customized ‘From:’ address, which lets you send messages from Gmail, but have them look like they were sent from another one of your email accounts. Please note that you can only retrieve mail from accounts that have POP3 access enabled..” writes Google.

Currently Mail Fetcher in Gmail is open to limited number of users only. For those who want to try, look for it in the ‘Accounts’ tab in Settings.

To setup Mail Fetcher in Gmail, visit http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=%67mail&hl=en&answer=21288

To setup a custom FROM addresses, visit http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=22370

This is the feature I have really been waiting for! Now i can use Gmail as a one-stop-email-shop to send and receive emails.