I currently have 4 Gmail accounts that I use on a fairly regular basis (for personal, work, side projects, etc). One of the accounts I forward to my personal account, but the others I want to keep separate and distinct.<p>I have tried the Gmail account switcher but I don't like not being able to see everything at once (plus it's slow switching between accounts). I also don't like desktop clients because their UX is old and clunky (apart from Sparrow, which I can't use because I'm on Linux) and I don't want to configure my client every time I find myself using a new machine. I'm also getting tired of having multiple browsers open just so that I can keep two accounts open at once.<p>So my question is--how do you deal with multiple email accounts? Am I missing out on something that others know about? Or is this a common problem?
I forward them all to 1 account. However, even though I've set this up before, I can't for the life of me figure it out now.<p>Let's call EX the existing (old) email account that you want to keep and use daily (your personal one), and NEW the new one that you want to forward to your old one.<p>In NEW, settings>forward&pop3>allow pop3<p>In EX, settings>accounts>check mail pop3: add the new one.<p>The problem I'm having is that I can't seem to add the right settings for the new one (which is a google app hosted email)
I'm using Gnus, problem solved. Only 4 separate mailboxes, but it could scale to any number of sources, without trouble. The UI is the same as the rest of my environment, fits in perfectly, it's flexible beyond imagination, and tailored to my specific needs.<p>I used to use the gmail web UI before, but due to the problems you yourself outlined, I switched to something much more powerful, something much more flexible.<p>I love Gnus, now that I managed to set it up after more than 10 years of using Emacs, and resisting the temptation to finally give gnus a real try.
I have several email accounts for different domains set up with google apps. One is the primary one that I am always logged into, and the others I have set up as an account I can send mail from (Settings, Accounts, Add another email address you own) in the primary account. In addition, I set up a filters for each of the email addresses that label the incoming mail according to what address it was sent to, so I can easily identify which of my identities is getting the email.
If you are using Firefox, I suggest the Gmail Manager plugin by Todd Long. I have used quite a few Gmail plugins for Firefox, but none of them gets it quite as right as this one.<p>Details here <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gmail-manager/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gmail-manager...</a>
I use <a href="http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/</a> to manage my 3 gmail accounts. No affiliation with the company, just a satisfied (free beta) customer.
I have 3 GMail accounts I use regularly, so I just keep GMail open in three tabs, and use the GMail account switcher to switch each tab to one of the three accounts I care about.
As others have said, use an email client of some kind, and access gmail via IMAP. See as many accounts as you want.<p>I use Thunderbird, your preference may vary.