Gmail – Is it possible to change the theme for a Google Apps e-mail account

Being an avid user of Gmail and Google Apps myself, I know that it's not as simple as it seems, there's a few steps involved.

You have to redirect all of your work emails to your personal one, verify that you own your personal email, verify (again) that you own your work email so you can send mail through that address and setup a filter so that things don't go into super confusion mode. Long!

Thankfully for you, I'll tell you exactly how you can acomplish this! I'm so nice.

Follow these steps:

1. Login to your work email account

2. Go to Settings on the top-right corner of your screen and select Forwarding and POP/IMAP -> Add a forwarding address

3. Enter your personal email, along with a tag, such as: username+business@gmail.com where business would be the tag that you associate your work emails to (although this can be anything, make it easy to tell what it is)

4. Login to your personal Gmail account

5. Go to Settings -> Filters -> Create a new filter

6. In the To: field, put the address you chose for forwarding your business mail to (in my example, username+business@gmail.com and, on the next step, choose to apply a new label (called Business for example)

7. Still in Settings, go to the Accounts tab and Add another email address you own

8. Put in your business email (lets say username@company.com and also specify the same address as the reply-to address and you can choose to use either SMTP server (I usually don't bother)

9. Accept both authorizations sent to either emails and you're done!

When mail arrives at your work box, it will be redirected to your personal box but with whatever label you chose (in the example, Business). Makes it much simpler to organize your mail in a way that won't consume your time searching for it.

Hope this helps!

If you are the admin of the Google Apps account you could go to Organizations & users and from More actions: Download as CSV.

Once you've done that then you can easily modify the file as Google wants it and then import them as usual.