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Consolidate Multiple Email Addresses with Gmail

lifehacker.com — You've finally decided to move all your email online to Google's web-based service, Gmail. Great! But what about messages still going to your old email address(es)? You don't have to notify all your contacts that your email address has changed—again. Gmail is not only an email host, it's an email client, which can fetch mail from any number of exte

Who dugg this? Made popular Apr 7, 2008

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  • inactive, on 04/07/2008, -2/+49For further consolidation of old emails saved on your desktop clients to GMail: It is now possible to upload all the emails saved in your desktop clients such as Outlook, Outlook Express and Thunderbird using an official utility from Google - Google Email Uploader - available for download from http://mail.google.com/mail/help/email_uploader.ht ...
  • dball48, on 04/07/2008, -1/+32he already knew
  • decepticrat, on 04/07/2008, -2/+28I've been using this feature for a while now. It really enhances gmail's usability for me.
  • IvanB, on 04/07/2008, -1/+18Just another reason why GMail is so much better than the other services (*cough*Hotmail) around. :)
  • YME1280, on 04/07/2008, -2/+15been using this for a while... gmail is my mobile office
  • russellcook, on 04/07/2008, -1/+12I've been using this for a while but my issue is that I want to be able to send emails from my other addresses without it saying it came from Gmail. Once they remove that, I'll be a lot more excited about the ability to consolidate multiple accounts.
  • inactive, on 04/07/2008, -3/+14Pretty Neat.

    This took 3 refreshes to post.
  • Gabberwok, on 04/07/2008, -1/+11Only for Google Apps accounts. And then only for Windows.
  • inactive, on 12/07/2008, -3/+12Google does it again...Consolidation is a must...
  • Rotzooi, on 04/07/2008, -8/+16Who on earth needs to read a blogspam for this info? It's all there in Gmail's help function (which only retards would need to use, anyways).
    Digg is going downhill fast.
  • HandsomeRuss, on 04/07/2008, -1/+8You can't forward Hotmail emails to your Gmail account like that guide says. You'll get this message:

    You're only able to forward mail to a custom domain or an e-mail address that ends in hotmail.com, msn.com, or live.com. Please try again.
  • Daniel591992, on 04/07/2008, -1/+8ON THIS ***** PLANE!!!
  • Pixelpaws, on 04/07/2008, -1/+7How many commas do you really need in that sentence? o_O
  • juggalofr33k, on 04/07/2008, -1/+7I did what it said for hotmail, but i keep getting this message...

    "You're only able to forward mail to a custom domain or an e-mail address that ends in hotmail.com, msn.com, or live.com. Please try again."

    I cant stop using my @msn.com address, but i hate going there to get my emails... anyone else having this problem?
  • crywolf, on 04/07/2008, -15/+21THERE WAS A ***** PROBLEM COMPLETING YOUR ***** REQUEST! PLEASE ***** RELOAD AND TRY AGAIN!

    DIGG NOT ***** SAVED, PLEASE RELOAD THE ***** PAGE AND TRY AGAIN!
  • inactive, on 04/07/2008, -1/+7Shut up.
  • ajb2015, on 04/07/2008, -1/+73 years ago.
  • NinjaPig, on 04/07/2008, -2/+7Jesus-mail?
  • mmockett, on 04/07/2008, -5/+10He's not dead, he just went home...
    I don't know what that means.
  • mnugent, on 04/07/2008, -4/+8no more missing attachments from me then!
  • mhearne, on 04/07/2008, -0/+4"Only for Google Apps accounts. And then only for Windows."

    Yes, it was only yesterday that I found out that Yahoo! for Unix no longer works. The popup says that "This version of Yahoo! Messenger expired on 4/4/2008, Please upgrade to the latest version". There is no latest version. Well, they can have it. I'd rather manage my accounts individually, since that gives me more privacy.

    I do use Gmail quite a lot. It isn't really a "throw-away" address, like Yahoo!, but I don't think I'd use it for anything important. That is, the only people who get my "real" address are those who I'm doing business with, while my gmail or yahoo addresses are for signing up for websites or buying trinkets.
  • DeathJux, on 04/07/2008, -1/+5The commas aren't nearly as bothersome as the broken grammar structure in general.
  • Gabberwok, on 04/07/2008, -1/+5Thanks to the new Gmail IMAP option, you can even move messages from an Exchange server into Gmail semi-automatically, for example using Applescript and Apple's Mail program to automatically move messages from one account to another. It is a little buggy and not fully supported, but it works. (For some reason messages moved to Gmail in this way don't show up in the Inbox automatically, but that's easy enough to fix.)
  • ritzcracker, on 04/07/2008, -0/+4Yeah, they had this for awhile.
  • clockdist, on 04/07/2008, -0/+4I assume Timmy8765 meant IMAP support within Gmail for it to manage the multiple accounts.
  • StealthMonkey, on 04/07/2008, -0/+4He meant he wishes the Gmail Fetcher supported IMAP, so you can get emails from accounts that don't support POP3.

    And I agree, my old Hotmail account it stuck for now.
  • Daniel591992, on 04/07/2008, -0/+3LIAR!
  • lolwutpear, on 04/07/2008, -0/+3shorten that to "hotmail blows!"
  • Drewsufer, on 04/07/2008, -0/+3In other news, a new technology called RSS (Really Simple Syndication) allows you to get news stories sent to you automatically. Amazing!
  • kinseyincanada, on 04/07/2008, -1/+4it shows a picture of forwarding a hotmail account to gmail, but hotmail does not allow this it says "You're only able to forward mail to a custom domain or an e-mail address that ends in hotmail.com, msn.com, or live.com. Please try again." when you enter a gmail account.
  • mhearne, on 04/07/2008, -0/+3"There was a problem completing your request. Please reload the page and try again".

    Not half as bad as waiting for 5 minutes only to be told there is an "unresponsive script on this page". It's all Javascript junk.
  • MikeonTV, on 04/07/2008, -4/+7ZOMG! I was just thinking about figuring out a way to do this yesterday!
  • lkms, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2digging this up because it's so funny.
  • fuzzweed, on 04/07/2008, -2/+4yes it is going downhill
  • fuzzweed, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2DIGG FRONT PAGE: Putting one foot in front of another allows you to walk! And here's a picture of a kitten with an amusing name too.
  • melonhedd, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2And all you have to do is give Google all of your passwords!
  • nreynolds, on 04/07/2008, -2/+4it does... it got it a few months ago and everyone on digg was like "omg gmail has IMAP now"
  • theWrkncacnter, on 04/07/2008, -4/+6It attaches "mailed-by gmail.com" in the header information.
    At least it masks your gmail address, but it does look unprofessional. I still use it though.
  • phenom2k7, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2It'll be nice if I could configure my email addresses in gmail like I have done in Outlook. I just want the ability to send from any of my email addresses from one place.
  • clockdist, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2I guess using a free email service is "unprofessional."
  • clockdist, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2GMail is the only free email service I know of with IMAP support. If anyone knows any others out there, please post.
  • Gabberwok, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2Andycr is right. You should include the Gmail account in the native client, but I still find myself using the web version half the time because it is so much more useful. I hate having to search through messages to find the one with the information I need, and there is no search function in the native mail app + it only downloads the most recent 50-200 messages. With www.google.com/m#gmail you can access all of your email and search through it with all of the neat google shortcuts (is:unread, label:junk, has:attachment, etc. etc. etc.)
  • NOFXY, on 04/07/2008, -1/+3It's not going downhill, it's "expanding" its user base. If you don't like the influx of newbies digging non-mega-nerd articles hitting the front page then please, for your own good, DON'T ***** CLICK ON THEM! click on the "buried as lame" article and move on. Not everyone has the time to dig into every detail of every application/websites EULA or help documentation.
  • chroko, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2I get the exact same problem (I also get an infinite redirect loop trying to log on to Hotmail with Safari, had to use Firefox).

    ...and we have yet another Microsoft product that actively hates users.
  • RomeyRome, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2"I use Gmail's POP fetch feature to retrieve email from my @gmail.com account."
    HUH? I think you just opened a vortex.
  • iamtherealwoody, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2Saw the same thing in the article, got excited and tried only to fail.
  • MScrip, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2Unless that free email service is provided by Google. @gmail is better than @yahoo. At least with Gmail you are somewhat in-the-know technology wise. People with Hotmail and Yahoo have had those addresses since 1998.
  • Cimlite, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2Yes, the article is inaccurate. I've been trying to get an easy way to forward my hotmail for ages now... but it just does not work.

    This article made me think that something actually changed but no... it's still the same.
  • ReaXan, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2GMX is a great service,made me leave Yahoo for good.The only con is that it likes to use alot of Java and might be slow on older systems
  • andycr512, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2Not neccessarily. There are many things which GMail does that no standard desktop IMAP app can support, like labels, stars, and so on. If it were I, I would set up the iPhone client to use GMail through IMAP and then use the GMail web app - that way, you get the best of both worlds. You get both new mail notifications through the iPhone and the features of the GMail web app.
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