Ask HN: Best way to operate multiple Gmail accounts

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by honza • 16 years ago

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

dryicerx• 16 years ago

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.

petervandijck2• 16 years ago

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.

CyberFonic• 16 years ago

I have been using multi-accounts from Gmail for several weeks now. You need to go into preferences to enable it. Gives you multiple tabs/windows to see your e-mails.

petervandijck2• 16 years ago

Found the link: https://www.google.com/accounts/MultipleSessions

eiji• 16 years ago

Same here!

I have 7 Facebook accounts ...

smartprojector• 16 years ago

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!

templaedhel• 16 years ago

I use this for my 5 accounts.

hardy263• 16 years ago

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

AjJi• 16 years ago

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.

honza• 16 years ago

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.

gallerytungsten• 16 years ago

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

crasshopper• 16 years ago

Pine

Alpine

kurtheinrich• 16 years ago

I have 10 Gmail/Google Apps accounts so I had the same issue as you. Here's what I did: http://bit.ly/bSv0Sv

Ask HN: Best way to operate multiple Gmail accounts

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