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How do you deal with multiple Gmail accounts?

• mindcrime 16y ago
  I have 3 GMail accounts I use regularly, so I just keep GMail open in three tabs, and use the GMail account switcher to switch each tab to one of the three accounts I care about.
  • petervandijck 16y ago
    You can do that? Do you have to switch back and forth every time, or can you keep multiple accounts open at the same time?
    • mindcrime 16y ago
      Nah, it works fine... each account stays open in it's tab and I can just switch tabs to see each account I care about. Note that I've only ever tried this using Chrome, so I don't know if they do something special to make it work or not.
  • bitdrift 16y ago
    Wow. The multiple tabs + account switcher thing works surprisingly well. Have you ever run into problems using it this way? Seems like this is somewhat outside of the normal usage (maybe because of all of the disclaimers when you add extra accounts?).
    • mindcrime 16y ago
      So far, no. I've been doing this for about a week, and - as far as I can tell - it works fine. I don't know if this is actually a supported thing, or something that only works by happenstance, or what. But for the time being it seems to work. <shrug />
  • petervandijck 16y ago
    I believe this doesn't work if you want to use Gmail's offline feature. Also, the maximum seems 3 accounts? Here's the official explanation (with this exact use case): http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/access-two-gmail-accounts-at-once-in.html http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/access-two-gmail-accou...
    • mindcrime 16y ago
      Interesting. I don't use the offline feature, so it had never come up as a problem here.
  • bigohms 16y ago
    should be noted: Logging in is a pain. Cookie and FF default auth details are saved using the same underlying mail.google.com domain, it doesn't bind the correct saved authentication detail with the correct account. CNAMES have no effect on this.
• petervandijck 16y ago
  I forward them all to 1 account. However, even though I've set this up before, I can't for the life of me figure it out now. Let's call EX the existing (old) email account that you want to keep and use daily (your personal one), and NEW the new one that you want to forward to your old one. In NEW, settings>forward&pop3>allow pop3 In EX, settings>accounts>check mail pop3: add the new one. The problem I'm having is that I can't seem to add the right settings for the new one (which is a google app hosted email)
  • bo_Olean 16y ago
    have you tried this ? username: username@yourdomain.com pop.gmail.com as incoming server smtp.gmail.com as outgoing server Link : http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=33380 http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
    • petervandijck 16y ago
      Doesn't work with a domain name that uses Google apps.
      • rick888 16y ago
        It does, I have gmail for domain accounts all going into my main account. You need to make sure SSL is on and the ports are different that the standard pop3+smtp
  • d_r 16y ago
    Why not just use the Forwarding option (also under "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab?)
• madhouse 16y ago
  I'm using Gnus, problem solved. Only 4 separate mailboxes, but it could scale to any number of sources, without trouble. The UI is the same as the rest of my environment, fits in perfectly, it's flexible beyond imagination, and tailored to my specific needs. I used to use the gmail web UI before, but due to the problems you yourself outlined, I switched to something much more powerful, something much more flexible. I love Gnus, now that I managed to set it up after more than 10 years of using Emacs, and resisting the temptation to finally give gnus a real try.
  • mapleoin 16y ago
    What do you use to get your email? Do you index it? The last time I tried using Gnus it used to take more than a minute to start up and I really don't think I have that much mail, although I am subscribed to 10+ mailing lists.
    • madhouse 16y ago
      Plenty of mailing lists here (including some high traffic ones like LKML). I use OfflineIMAP to sync my mail. This results in pretty fast gnus startup times. But then, I only start it up every once in a while when I have to reboot due to a kernel upgrade.
• ollysb 16y ago
  I use the standard mail client on my iphone, macbook and imac. They all have an "all accounts" inbox so you can view all your email at once.
• Sapient 16y ago
  If you are using Firefox, I suggest the Gmail Manager plugin by Todd Long. I have used quite a few Gmail plugins for Firefox, but none of them gets it quite as right as this one. Details here https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gmail-manager/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gmail-manager...
• sixtofour 16y ago
  As others have said, use an email client of some kind, and access gmail via IMAP. See as many accounts as you want. I use Thunderbird, your preference may vary.
• marilyn 16y ago
  I have several email accounts for different domains set up with google apps. One is the primary one that I am always logged into, and the others I have set up as an account I can send mail from (Settings, Accounts, Add another email address you own) in the primary account. In addition, I set up a filters for each of the email addresses that label the incoming mail according to what address it was sent to, so I can easily identify which of my identities is getting the email.
• tonyarkles 16y ago
  I use http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/ http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/ to manage my 3 gmail accounts. No affiliation with the company, just a satisfied (free beta) customer.