Google doesn’t ever fail to impress us, does it? In these couple of weeks only, we’ve seen so much coming our way from the internet search giant that it is hard to keep count of the new products, features and application upgrades being rolled out to the public. Gmail, Google’s own email service has been widely adopted and earlier this week we’ve seen Google bring its signature Priority Inbox to the Gmail app for Android. However, now Google has announced yet another awesome Gmail feature today, for those who use the service via a web browser. Read on below to find out more.
Google calls it e-mail delegation, and it will allow users to seamlessly manage multiple Gmail accounts without going through the hassle of signing in and out of Gmail and having to switch these very accounts manually. Initially though, e-mail delegation was a handy feature for letting others access your Gmail account. However, with this particular change, this basic feature becomes more powerful for the average Gmail user having multiple accounts of their own.
So how exactly will e-mail delegation work? Well when a users signs into their primary Gmail account, they can simply choose to grant access to another account, by opening their Gmail settings, the link to which sits in the top right corner of Gmail’s web interface. Beneath the Accounts tab users will now see a new section entitled, “Grant access to your account.” Through here, the users will then be able to grant access to any other Gmail accounts they control to their primary Gmail account.
However, when an account is added, the user will have to accept access from a verification e-mail sent to the account which is to be added and once the account is added successfully, users will then be able to easily toggle between their Gmail accounts without having to log in and out of the service again and again and when a new e-mail message is sent while being logged into a secondary account, the primary address will also appear in the e-mail details.
Do you see yourself benefitting from e-mail delegation in Gmail? Let us know in your comments below.
Via Mashable