I have two Gmail accounts:
- The embarrassing one I set up as a teenager, let's call it
woohoo9000@gmail.com
- The serious one I set up as a young adult for job applications etc, let's call it
my.name@gmail.com
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 woohoo9000@gmail.com
, 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
my.name@gmail.com
as a new "Send mail as" account inwoohoo9000@gmail.com
's settings then set it as the default - I used "Grant access to your account" to allow
woohoo9000@gmail.com
to accessmy.name@gmail.com
's messages and setmy.name@gmail.com
to forward incoming mail towoohoo9000@gmail.com
'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 woohoo9000@gmail.com
Google account, and that account's Gmail is set to send and receive emails via the newer, more respectable my.name@gmail.com
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 my.name@gmail.com
:
From: woohoo9000@gmail.com On Behalf Of my.name@gmail.com
Sent: 25 February 2016 10:55
To: manager@seriousbank.com
Subject: Serious financial matters
Not a great first impression.
How can I switch the priority of two previously linked Gmail accounts, so that my.name@gmail.com
is the primary account and no mention of woohoo9000@gmail.com
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 woohoo9000@gmail.com
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.