I have two Gmail accounts:
- The embarrassing one I set up as a teenager, let's call it
[email protected] - The serious one I set up as a young adult for job applications etc, let's call it
[email protected]
When I first set these up, I linked them so that I'd only have to check one inbox to see all my emails. Because at the time, I was used to using [email protected], had used it for site logins etc, and it was what my friends, family and other accounts used, I set that up as the account I'd be logged into:
- I added
[email protected]as a new "Send mail as" account in[email protected]'s settings then set it as the default - I used "Grant access to your account" to allow
[email protected]to access[email protected]'s messages and set[email protected]to forward incoming mail to[email protected]'s inbox and
So, I can be logged in on my browsers and android devices to all those Google accounts - such as Google Drive, Android, Google Play, and Google logins on sites like SE - that are part of the [email protected] google account, and that account's Gmail is set to send and receive emails via the newer, more respectable [email protected] name.
I thought this worked fine - but then it turned out to be a big mistake. To my horror, I saw things like this creeping in to serious email conversations, even though the sending email account was set to be [email protected]:
From: [email protected] On Behalf Of [email protected]
Sent: 25 February 2016 10:55
Subject: Serious financial matters
Not a great first impression.
How can I switch the priority of two previously linked Gmail accounts, so that [email protected] is the primary account and no mention of [email protected] can creep in unless I manually send from that account - but I can continue to be logged in to all the peripheral stuff linked to my original [email protected] google account?
I've seen lots of guides on how to do the initial linking of the accounts, but not how to switch the linking around once it's done.
