Multiple GMail Account Tools?

Inoshishi · 14 Oct 2007 at 15:09

Hey All,

I have multiple gmail accounts, an old one, one for home and one for work.

Rather than log in and out of each seperately to check for new mail, is there an easy way to check all three at once with a single click of the mouse?

Someone has recommended poptray so going to give that a try, but wondered what else was available?

Cheers

DanMc07 · 14 Oct 2007 at 15:21

http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/notifier_windows.html

Will do what you ask I think.

If not you can always use something like Mozilla Thunderbird. Or on the otherhand, If you use Opera.. You can use there Inbuilt mail checker

Mozilla Thunderbird and Outlook etc check all mail accounts when ever you like

LeperousDust · 14 Oct 2007 at 15:21

How about make one more gmail account and consolidate all the accounts in the new one using labels cleverly too. Check the "account" options in gmails settings and see how you can connect via pop to grab you emails directly. The only problem with this is you will fill your email space up 3 times quicker. But gmail are raising the storage to 6gb or so by next year i think (i've totally forgotten the fact here

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LeperousDust · 14 Oct 2007 at 15:22

DanMc07 said:
http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/notifier_windows.html

Will do what you ask I think.

If not you can always use something like Mozilla Thunderbird. Or on the otherhand, If you use Opera.. You can use there Inbuilt mail checker

That only does one account, he wants to monitor multipel accounts, which is why i said consolidate them, then maybe use gmail notifier...

DanMc07 · 14 Oct 2007 at 15:24

LeperousDust said:
That only does one account, he wants to monitor multipel accounts, which is why i said consolidate them, then maybe use gmail notifier...

Well thats why I said he could use the likes of Mozilla thunderbird etc, they monitor all accounts when ever you please.

swinnie · 14 Oct 2007 at 15:26

Just enable pop email and use Thunderbird, Outlook etc...

DanMc07 · 14 Oct 2007 at 15:31

swinnie said:
Just enable pop email and use Thunderbird, Outlook etc...

Probably the best option.

Inoshishi · 14 Oct 2007 at 15:41

Completely forgot about Thunderbird, thanks guys

LeperousDust · 14 Oct 2007 at 16:09

I'm personally not a fan of the archaic pop3 email system, if gmail used imap that would be great, but i use a few different computers over the day maybe, and it's pretty easy for emails to get lost or ignored because you have them local on another computer... Central webmail means unless i'm without internet i definately have ym mail (and if im without internet theres nout much you could do with mail anyway).

Jolly_Jason · 14 Oct 2007 at 16:37

LeperousDust said:
I'm personally not a fan of the archaic pop3 email system, if gmail used imap that would be great, but i use a few different computers over the day maybe, and it's pretty easy for emails to get lost or ignored because you have them local on another computer... Central webmail means unless i'm without internet i definately have ym mail (and if im without internet theres nout much you could do with mail anyway).

You can configure GMAil so that it ALWAYS leaves a copy on their server when downloading to Outlook, Thunderbird ..etc :confused:

Thats how I have my GMAil and outlook setup, that way if anything happens to my PST backup here I can always find the e-mails on Gmails servers.

Inoshishi · 14 Oct 2007 at 16:42

Jolly_Jason said:
You can configure GMAil so that it ALWAYS leaves a copy on their server when downloading to Outlook, Thunderbird ..etc
Thats how I have my GMAil and outlook setup, that way if anything happens to my PST backup here I can always find the e-mails on Gmails servers.

Yep thats how i'm doing it, thanks again chaps

Mr.Clark · 26 Oct 2007 at 13:13

LeperousDust said:
if gmail used imap that would be great

Just thought you might like to know, Gmail is now introducing IMAP.

Switch your language to US English, log off, log on again and see if it's there in the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" settings.

If not, try again in a few days. Mine was activated some time last night. It's ace. I can now check gmail on my phone without worrying about the sync issues of POP.

nade · 26 Oct 2007 at 13:42

Inoshishi said:
Rather than log in and out of each seperately to check for new mail, is there an easy way to check all three at once with a single click of the mouse?

I used a program called Klipfolio as an RSS feed reader. It has a "Klip" which checks and shows any new/unread emails in your GMail account.

You can duplicate the Gmail klip and configure each one to check each account

Link is here: http://www.klipfolio.com/klipinfo/6052/Gmail

Clown · 26 Oct 2007 at 13:45

Do you use Mozilla Firefox? - http://www.longfocus.com/firefox/gmanager/
It sits in the bottom right of your window and shows you when an account has mail.