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Re: How do you deal with multiple Gmail accounts?

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Post by Sapient » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 8:45 PM UTC

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...

Re: How do you deal with multiple Gmail accounts?

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Post by sixtofour » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 8:50 PM UTC

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.

Re: How do you deal with multiple Gmail accounts?

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Post by petervandijck » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 9:04 PM UTC

mindcrime wrote: post #2

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.

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-accou...

Re: How do you deal with multiple Gmail accounts?

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Post by petervandijck » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 9:09 PM UTC

bo_Olean wrote: post #10

petervandijck wrote: post #3

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 tha…

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&answ...

Doesn't work with a domain name that uses Google apps.

Re: How do you deal with multiple Gmail accounts?

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Post by bigohms » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 9:33 PM UTC

mindcrime wrote: post #2

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.

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.

Re: How do you deal with multiple Gmail accounts?

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Post by mindcrime » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 10:07 PM UTC

petervandijck wrote: post #13

mindcrime wrote: post #2

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.

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-accou...

Interesting. I don't use the offline feature, so it had never come up as a problem here.

Re: How do you deal with multiple Gmail accounts?

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Post by mapleoin » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 11:06 PM UTC

madhouse wrote: post #5

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…

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.

Re: How do you deal with multiple Gmail accounts?

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Post by marilyn » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 11:23 PM UTC

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.

Re: How do you deal with multiple Gmail accounts?

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Post by d_r » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 11:28 PM UTC

petervandijck wrote: post #3

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 tha…

Why not just use the Forwarding option (also under "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab?)

Re: How do you deal with multiple Gmail accounts?

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Post by rick888 » Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 2:02 AM UTC

petervandijck wrote: post #14

bo_Olean wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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&answ...

Doesn't work with a domain name that uses Google apps.

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