Comments on: How To Read And Send All Your Emails From Inside Your Gmail Account.

By: Shelley Hitz, Self Publishing Coach

Shelley Hitz, Self Publishing Coach — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:54:02 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

This should make my life less cluttered because I can now check 5 e-mails at once….yeah!

~Shelley

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:29:43 +0000

@Kurt -

You would have to set up Thunderbird to actually IMAP each account separately…Basically what David’s write up shows you how to do is use Gmail as your email client, while you are talking about using Thunderbird as your client instead. There is not a way to send from thunderbird unless it has the specific settings entered for each account in question.

Did that make sense? It’s still early…

By: David

David — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:56:48 +0000

Yes, all the emails will show up in Thunderbird if you set it to pull everything from Gmail. The tricky part is setting up Thunderbird so you can also send from all those email addresses, which I don’t know how/don’t know if it is possible.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:27:02 +0000

Will this work if I use Thunderbird email client?
Would I just set up Thunderbird to pull the main gmail account info?
Thanks for the info, I’ve been trying to do something like this for awhile.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:53:20 +0000

I had the same issue Rebecca noted, I solved it by creating a new Gmail account just for the purposes of checking that work email. that way when I sent, it was from “jessework@gmail” instead of my personal account…convoluted I know, but it worked.

Thanks for the write up David! I’m actually going to forward this post to my mom who is in the process of realizing that she needs to get off Yahoo mail…this will help alot!

Jesse

By: David

David — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:34:44 +0000

Thanks Michele. I actually have one of those paid yahoo accounts that I aim into my Gmail account too. Not sure why I still have it, but I do! Hotmail used to be like that too, but they finally enabled free POP access.

By: Michele

Michele — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:26:58 +0000

Another thing you might want to point out is that although this works well if you have multiple gmail accounts, some servers, Yahoo particularly, (not sure about how hotmail works), will block pop access unless you pay a yearly fee. For Yahoo that is $20.00. Some people might think its worth it to do that.

By: David

David — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:46:17 +0000

Rebecca, yes, that can happen. Supposedly it will be fixed, but it doesn’t always happen. It depends on who/what program is receiving the mail, I believe.

Glad it worked Emily!

By: Emily@remodelingthislife

Emily@remodelingthislife — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:07:23 +0000

I did this just now and can’t thank you enough!!

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:02:56 +0000

I do this as well, but I warn you – sending from your other accounts through the main one does not always work like you think. I have a main email account as well as an official one with my full name that I use for job applications, etc. I discovered that many of my emails were going through as “mainaccount@gmail.com on behalf of Rebecca LastName”, rather than “rebeccalastname@gmail.com.” I wasn’t hiding my real account name from anyone!