While you now have a working Gmail account, you may want to continue to send email from your old PSU (because of mailing list memberships or to keep your professional and personal email addresses separate, for instance). That's okay! Gmail makes this really easy.
From within Gmail, click on "Settings" (upper right corner) and then click the tab labelled "Accounts". Under the section labelled "Send mail as" (which should be at the top of the tab), click "Add another email address". In the window that opens, set your name to whatever you would like and type in your PSU email address. Click "Next Step".
Read the information Gmail displays on the next page. They are telling you that, in order to send mail from your old PSU address, they have to verify that you actually own the address. Click "Send Verification". When the next page loads, click "Close Window".
Back in the Settings section of Gmail, you should now see your PSU account listed in the "Send mail as:" section. It will also say "unverified" in grey next to the address. That's fine. We now have to wait for the email to arrive.
As we've already set up forwarding of your account, this message will appear in your inbox in a few minutes. It will come from Gmail Team and have a title like "Gmail Confirmation - Send Mail as abc123@psu.edu". When it arrives, open the message and click the link.
After you've done that, click on "Settings" again. If you no longer see "unverified" next to your PSU account, great. Otherwise, reload Gmail in your browser and it should show up as verified.
There are a number of options here. If you click the "make default" link next to your PSU account, whenever you write a new email, it will be from your PSU account and not your Gmail address. I currently do that, but whatever you choose is fine.
The Third Step: Adding a Notification Extension to Firefox
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