I also had planned to gather 3 mailadresses into Gmail by having Gmail fetch the mail from the other adresses through it’s built in pop function. After some testing and reading though I skipped the idea, since you can’t configure how often Gmail is to check your other accounts, it runs its own algorithm based on previus fetchattempts. I didn’t like this at all, and also experienced some large delays from testing (even read about mail disappering on forums, though I didn’t experience that, just large delays) and not all of my webmail interfaces having the option of forwarding mail to Gmail to get around it’s fetching algorithm, I ended up with 3 separate imap accounts on my mailclient, and still using 3 separate webmail interfaces when needed.

What’s your experience on this? Got the impression from your article that you indeed do use Gmail’s popfunction, and not forwarding from your other accounts.

-Hans

As for handling multiple e-mail accounts/domains: If you can POP e-mail from your other accounts, you can add them to Gmail. Once those are added and verified (you have to enter an activation code that’s sent to those addresses) you have the option to send e-mail from those accounts as well. That is, you use Gmail’s webmail interface (and, therefore, Gmail’s servers) but you get a drop-down for which account you want to send your e-mail from.

You can use multiple accounts through your e-mail client as well. You do that by adding those accounts into the client’s profile but using the Gmail IMAP server for sending mail from each of them.

Is that what you meant? Or did you want to map an entire domain’s addresses through Gmail?

I have a number of domains I write from. How would Gmail deal with that situation?