One of the many great things in GMail is its ability to fetch other accounts emails, in order to allow you to keep only one email client or browser window open without losing anything. Today they improved this further, with a “Refresh ’em all” feature.

Until today if you were waiting for some important mail to be fetched, you had to go to the “Acccounts and Import” tab in GMail “Settings” and press “Check mail now” in the account of interest. Thanks to the new GMail Lab “Refresh POP accounts” you will be able to do this with just one click on the “Refresh” link in the main GMail page.

All you have to do is to activate the feature in the “Labs” tab in the “Settings” and you will be up and running!!

Activating the feature

Let’s see if it works…

… and here you are!

This is all, but here is the Official GMail Blog post:

Posted by Emmanuel Pellereau, Software Engineer
My little sister recently setup her Gmail account to retrieve messages from her school address, so she can check all of her email accounts in one place. She no longer has to constantly log in to two email programs, and she likes using Gmail’s powerful interface for all her mail.
However, sometimes she knows an email has already been sent to her school address, and she just can’t wait for the next scheduled fetch to have it show up in her Gmail inbox. As any big brother would, I tried to solve this issue for her and millions of Gmail users.
Turn on “Refresh POP accounts” from the Labs tab under Settings, and the refresh link at the top of your inbox will not only update your inbox with your new Gmail messages, it will also fetch messages from any other accounts which you have set up.

Try it out, and let us know if you have any feedback.

I really like useful stuff that just works