Gmailify will bring Gmail’s best features to non-Gmail email accounts

Why this matters: If you use Gmail to manage your Yahoo or Outlook.com email address, this change will finally put those other accounts on equal footing.

Users simply need to open the Gmail app and sign into their account and then enable Gmailify.

Tap the non-Gmail account you’d like to link. Now, the company has launched a new feature that will bring even more Gmail features to users who don’t want to do go through the hassle of creating a new email address. Gmail also features spam protection, using an artificial neural network that detects and blocks these types of messages.

It’s been a little over a year since Google unveiled Gmail 5.0 with the ability to add inboxes from your Yahoo or Outlook accounts, and after introducing Oauth support back in June, they’re back with another big update to Gmail.

We agree. So starting today, if you use Yahoo!

Though, people could enjoy the smell of Gmail, they didn’t actually get a good taste of it. Most of the key features of the most widely used email provider in the world were missing. This way it gets to scan your messages and get its hands on your data which, understandably, you may not be too keen on.

There is also the option to unlink accounts at any time, while still having access to them in the Gmail app but without the Gmailify feature.

While the benefits of Gmail are great, let’s not overlook the fact that there’s a reason why Google wants to Gmailify non-Gmail accounts. Gmailify acts as if the emails were hosted on Google’s own servers, while you keep your existing email address.