How to run multiple Gmail accounts at once
This is something that surely boggles many Gmail users every day,how to log in to more than one Gmail account at the same time. Constantly logging in and out of different Gmail accounts to check and respond to messages gets really tiring, really fast, thanks to cookies. DLS dove in to discover a few options out there in the world wide web to log in to a few of your Google Gmail accounts at the same time.
- Multiple Browsers. Run 3 Gmail accounts at once: Load up Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer at the same time, each with a separate Gmail account open. Simply switch between browsers to check your accounts.
- One Browser. Run 2 accounts in the same browser: Install the IE tab Firefox extension. This allows users to embed Internet Explorer windows in Firefox tabs: Open up one Gmail in a regular Firefox tab, and another in an IE Firefox tab.
- Terminal Typing for Mac users: Use the Firefox and Safari profile manager to manage profiles for each Gmail account. Only do this if you are comfortable using the Terminal.
- Old Computer: Dust off that old computer in your basement, hook it up to the internet and use it for your least important Gmail account.
Get a WordPress.com Blog
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
David Chartier said 2:47PM on 7-30-2007
rooSwitch is a great GUI app for Mac OS X that is killer for managing multiple profiles for nearly any app. It would be perfect for this:
http://roobasoft.com/rooSwitch/
Reply
Nirav Mehta said 3:26PM on 7-30-2007
Setup all three accounts for POP Access using your favorite Mail Client
Reply
Entropyiv said 3:02PM on 7-30-2007
Or just use the "Get mail from other accounts" and "Send mail as" in the gmail settings.
Reply
Orhan Karsligil said 3:49PM on 7-30-2007
Just install the CookiePie add on for Firefox and open different tabs with separate cookie management. Then you can have as many Gmail accounts active as you want. Also Gmail for Domains uses a different cookie scheme so you can be logged into your regular GMAIL account and Gmail for Domains account even without the help of CookiePie.
You can cookiepie at http://www.nektra.com/oss/firefox/extensions/cookiepie/
Reply
flotsky said 4:10PM on 7-30-2007
I use the Gmail Manager Extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1320
You can see if you've got mail in all of your accounts in your sidebar at once. Must-have for me.
Reply
lagsalot said 4:07PM on 7-30-2007
Tip of the hat to #2. Why in the world would you want to open three different applications? Forward all of your mail to a single account. Add labels in the main account to tag which account it is coming from. Use the "Send Mail As" option, Settings > Account > Send Mail As which will allow you to reply with a from address of any of your accounts.
Reply
Shem said 4:23PM on 7-30-2007
Yep, Gmail manager is the way to go for me too in Firefox. Instantaneous login from the icons in the toolbar, along with email snippets to see whats going on in the other accounts with logging in.
Reply
Erzengel said 4:37PM on 7-30-2007
#2 and #5 are just like me. I have 5 email accounts, 4 are from gmail and one is my ISP. I use one of my Gmail accounts as the main, and i get all the emails from the other 4 and snwer from there too. I also use Gmail notifier in my Firefox to check just the main account, and voila! everything works like a charm, i can check all my emails anywhere i am.
Reply
bill weaver said 4:50PM on 7-30-2007
"Send mail as" is fine unless you want to keep your main account private. The headers will include your main account address in the Sender header.
From: "Joe Doe"
Sender: joeprivate@gmail.com
To: someoneelse@somewhere.com
Just saying, is all. :-)
-bill / bweaver.net
Reply
ff6600 said 5:17PM on 7-30-2007
or use mailplane for os x
http://mailplaneapp.com
Reply
BillyG said 5:09PM on 7-30-2007
Gmail Notifier : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/173
Reply
Olivia said 6:29PM on 7-30-2007
i forward one of the account's email to the other one and use the "send mail as" thing. i do that with all of my email accounts, really, gmail or not, so then i can get everything in the same place.
Reply
JASJr said 6:20PM on 7-30-2007
Making it way too hard on yourselves:
Gmail Settings\Forwarding and Pop
Forward an copy of incoming mail to your other account. Also has auto-delete or auto-archive to your taste. Get fancy with filters on the other account.
Reply
Geoff said 12:29AM on 7-31-2007
In Outlook, you can create a new folder and set the Hoempage property to gmail. Then when you click on that folder in your Personal Folders list, you'll see your logged in GMail account. Use Outlook to pull the POP, and there you go. Or, you know, set them both up for pop and be done with it.
Reply
Underseen said 12:12AM on 7-31-2007
Its simple, Create all the account you wanna use, have them all forward to a single account you can use to check them all, and either
A.) setup the reply as feature so you can send email as one of your other addresses (this isn't full proof because the email your sending from still show up as "This email sent from xxx on behalf of xxx"
B.) my favorite option is to setup multiple accounts in Thunderbird and reply to any emails from that client this way you keep your individual email addresses intact and separate from one another
Reply
James said 5:15PM on 7-31-2007
All you people saying "just forward the mail" forget that sometimes you want to have multiple people with their own accounts, not just one person with multiple accounts. Sometimes my wife wants to check her mail, but she's closer to my computer than she is to her own. Sometimes she's courteous about it and opens IE (so that I stay logged in under Firefox), but sometimes she logs me out and logs herself in, which is... irksome. I would love it if Google implemented multiple sign-in like Yahoo mail has. My parents use Yahoo, and I guess you can put in multiple username/password combinations at some point, then there's a single click link to switch from one person's inbox to the other, and I think you can even have both open at the same time in different tabs. It would be nice if Google gave you the same option...
Reply
Dwight Stegall said 1:52AM on 10-01-2007
i just open all three accounts in different tabs in firefox. i have the mailman toolbar for firefox and it makes this easy
Reply
Shawn Tisdell said 5:12PM on 10-17-2007
A partial and very time saving option I have found is to configure eprompter for multiple gmail or other email accounts. This allows you to view all emails in all accounts in the same location. It is the first step I take and primarily use it to eliminate junk and get a cursory view of all my email.
Reply