How to View All of Your Email at Once
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I was chatting on Wyldryde IRC tonight, and I was complaining about how I have to log into all of my email accounts to check them. While this is not a difficult task, it can get repetitive; especially since I have more than four email accounts that I regularly check.
SC_Thor/ThunderIT-Allan pointed me towards Gmail. Currently I have three Gmail accounts, so how I did not know about this feature is beyond me. Gmail allows you to download up to five email accounts (via POP3) into one Gmail account. You can also opt to send emails from your other accounts via gmail. For example, I can receive and send email from my Comcast address, all from my Gmail account.
How do you do this? Well, it is very simple!
- Create a Gmail account or use a previously existing one
- Click Settings - > Accounts
- To download your email from another account, click “Add Another Mail Account”. In some cases you will have to enable POP3 from your other email account
- You will have to enter in your password for your other email account
- You can then chose to label all of your incoming email based on accounts
This is a very simple process that takes only a few minutes to set up. If you use multiple email accounts that support POP3, you may want to consider using gmail to view all of your email.
-Justin
3 Comments
dabrace1984
November 17th, 2007
at 7:08am
I also have multiple e-mail accounts and here is how I manage them. For multiple Microsoft “sponsered” accounts use Windows Live Mail desktop (available at get.live.com). For multiple GMail accounts, activate IMAP functionality (directions available at mail.google.com) and consider using a third-party e-mail client like Mozilla Thunderbird (available at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird). Sorry that this links for “official” but the SPAM protector wouldn’t let me post them if they included “http”).
Jerry Falk
June 6th, 2008
at 1:25pm
I would like to set up a few accounts, how doyou set up pop3 accounts?
jfcapasso
June 7th, 2008
at 12:42am
Jerry, though gmail? Go to settings -> accounts and then there is an option that lets you fetch mail from another server (comcast, hotmail, other gmail accounts, etc)