Consolidate Email Accounts - Comments Page 1

If you use MS Hotmail you can also forward/receive e-mail from other accounts by selecting 'options' then 'Send & receive mail from other e-mail accounts'.

I have an account with AOL which I access through my Hotmail account and it works with no problems what so ever.

use ( POP peeper ) its very effective , easy with small size
u can keep ur emails their and u can set it to check ur emails every 15 minutes or less

Good article, Bob, on consolidating e-mail accounts. Thanks. But what Gmail is lacking is a way to consolidate multiple Gmail accounts into one Gmail account.

Or, if there is a way, I couldn't find it in the Gmail help files.

I'd like to consolidate the filters, labels, and of course, all the messages, from two different Gmail accounts into one Gmail account. And I would like to preserve the labels I have affixed to hundreds, nay, thousands of archived messages. Do you, or any of your readers, have any suggestions?

Gmail cant go out and grab email from all webmail accounts. It didnt work with my Mail.com account. I use POP Peeper. It notifies you of mail received and it comes up instantaneously when you click on the icon. No delay. You can configure any number of email accounts in it - and you can delete mail on the server before it gets to your inbox.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Gmail's import feature DOES bring in mail from other accounts. That's exactly what it's for!

I am confused - why not use an email client like Thunderbird to bring in all this mail?

EDITOR'S NOTE: That will bring in the mail, but not the contact lists. And desktop email clients are *so* 2007. :-)

I have 5 or so eMail accounts and use Mozilla Thunderbird to access them all from the one location. I use the portable version which comes with portable apps, run from a USB stick, which allows me to use my eMail with my settings from any computer. The multiple accounts only need to be set up once, and the mail from each account can be delivered to a single local local inbox.

Great suggestion. Simple, as you say, certainly is better. People go way overboard with the number of email accounts they use. I've had the same primary email account with Yahoo for 12 years. I use others strictly as "throwaways."

The final step that should be added to your article is to use a email client on your PC and use the POP function to download it all. I would never trust my email to a third party for safekeeping.

Hi Lee, There in fact, is a way to combine your GMAIL accounts. Use the POP access gmail provides for the purpose.

EDITOR'S NOTE: That won't combine the address books, labels and filters, though.

Been reading for a while now - great stiff. This one was really useful. Been fooling around with Outlook, Thunderbird, Ypops etc. Pain in the gazoo. This one's simple enough for us wanna-be geeks.

Thank You

I find that an easy way to keep track of all my e-mail addresses is to use Webmail Notifier for Mozilla Firefox. I never have to check manually, other than the occasional bug. Note that it only checks the Inbox and not the Spam folder.