Ask HN: Best way to operate multiple Gmail accounts

#1

Post by honza » Fri, Nov 05, 2010, 6:09 PM UTC

I have 7 Gmail accounts and I need to administer them all. What would you recommend? Do you have a similar problem?

Re: Ask HN: Best way to operate multiple Gmail accounts

#2

Post by dryicerx » Fri, Nov 05, 2010, 6:13 PM UTC

That's a bad idea. For handling multiple accounts (even across multiple domains) in one place cleanly, check out Google Apps.

For your situation, I think one option is to have all those accounts forward to a central account, and have the central account filter the emails in to different labels/folders depending on the destination address.

Re: Ask HN: Best way to operate multiple Gmail accounts

#3

Post by petervandijck » Fri, Nov 05, 2010, 6:16 PM UTC

Set up forwarding to one central account, and rules to label them. You can also set up rules about what the "FROM" address should be when replying.

There have been rumors about multi-account support in Gmail for a while, but who knows if that ever will be made public, so for now the above seems your best option.

Re: Ask HN: Best way to operate multiple Gmail accounts

#4

Post by eiji » Fri, Nov 05, 2010, 6:21 PM UTC

Same here!

I have 7 Facebook accounts ...

Re: Ask HN: Best way to operate multiple Gmail accounts

#5

Post by smartprojector » Fri, Nov 05, 2010, 6:28 PM UTC

there is a multiple sign in option with gmail... go to google.com/accounts once u r logged in... u can access multiple accs pretty easily... now i say its easy if its 2-3, 7 is gonna be a good try!

Re: Ask HN: Best way to operate multiple Gmail accounts

#6

Post by hardy263 » Fri, Nov 05, 2010, 9:02 PM UTC

For multiple email accounts, why don't you use thunderbird?

Re: Ask HN: Best way to operate multiple Gmail accounts

#7

Post by AjJi » Fri, Nov 05, 2010, 9:59 PM UTC

hardy263 wrote: post #6

For multiple email accounts, why don't you use thunderbird?

I'm using Thunderbird for 3 gmails accounts (+1 hotmail which I stopped using lately).

I don't think I could've done it without Thunderbird, you should give it a try.

Re: Ask HN: Best way to operate multiple Gmail accounts

#8

Post by honza » Fri, Nov 05, 2010, 10:22 PM UTC

I do use Thunderbird, and it's working OK I guess. I just really like the UI of web Gmail. I'm not so sure if I like the idea of forwarding all of my mail places.

Re: Ask HN: Best way to operate multiple Gmail accounts

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Post by templaedhel » Fri, Nov 05, 2010, 11:09 PM UTC

smartprojector wrote: post #5

there is a multiple sign in option with gmail... go to google.com/accounts once u r logged in... u can access multiple accs pretty easily... now i say its easy if its 2-3, 7 is gonna be a good try!

I use this for my 5 accounts.

Re: Ask HN: Best way to operate multiple Gmail accounts

#10

Post by gallerytungsten » Sat, Nov 06, 2010, 12:36 AM UTC

I access my gmail with a standalone email client. This works great for any number of accounts from different servers. I use Eudora.