Comments on: Using multiple GMail accounts with Thunderbird

By: cori

cori — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 04:01:13 +0000

Hey Aaron, Chris, Rohit;

Thanks for the compliments - this post is one of my top hit-getters.

Yes, I discovered that after having done the about:config rigamarole; in fact that solution is listed at the very end of my post.

Kabir;
Afraid I can’t help you with what you’re experiencing - I’m far from a Thunderbird expert….

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 01:15:12 +0000

After some searching, apparently you can set different smtp servers without using about:config. Go to Tools—>Account Settings. Click the name of the account you want to edit (not any of the subheadings) and the last setting will read “Outgoing Server (SMTP)”. There will be a dropdown menu next to it that allows you to change servers!!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 00:12:20 +0000

This is a great post! It’s so easy to do from about:config, it makes you wonder why this functionality isn’t easier to access for non-advanced users.

Thanks!

By: Kabir

Kabir — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 05:40:05 +0000

I have been having a peculiar problem. I was able to configure gmail on outlook without a glitch but somehow i am having a lot of nagging problems with thunderbird. for some reason, its taking a lot of time for the mails to load and only about 1/10 of the mails are actually being recognized in thunderbird to be downloaded. This is despite having followed the configuration instructions to the T as given by Gmail

Would request one of you guys to tell me whether its a conncetivity problem or something missing in my settings of thunderbird.

Thanks!

By: Rohit

Rohit — Thu, 11 May 2006 13:10:35 +0000

I was having exactly the same problem, and this blog entry helped me solved it. Thanks!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 21:15:26 +0000

This is so $$$!!! You are the shit! Thanks.

By: cori

cori — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:32:44 +0000

Actually Rich, that’s one of the reasons I started using Thunderbird.

GMail does specifically allow you to use only one account in the bowser, and the only way to use more than one is to sign out of one and sign in to the other. I do this by never checking the “remember” checkbox and manually viewing each account in turn, but only do that when not at my main machine - otherwise I use Thunderbird accross the board.

I agree that an aggregate view of multiple GMail accounts would be useful, but I had originally thought that there was something in the GMail terms of service that said you could only have one account per person. When I researched it for this post I couldn’t find that language, but it seems clear that Google wants to encourage one account each. This would be a nice place for some kind of Google API hack to fill in the functionality hole - like a greasemonkey script, or something like Frappr.

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 03:49:21 +0000

I got a new ISP and sent an invitation to myself to get another gmail
account. (I want both gmail accounts: personal & bus.) Proceeded,
established new account. Sent message to/from new account. Then
couldn’t access old account. Finally, signed in to old account. Now
can access old account only. Sign-in pre-prompts with old account name
and will not allow new account name. I unchecked ‘remember this
password’ hoping to avoid setting a cookie for either account… but no
luck. I am now locked out of new account.

I shouldn’t have to manually manipulate cookies or delete them to do
this. Why not allow no pre-prompt (=my manual entry, or =select which
account with pre-prompt) of account name so that I can choose which
account I wish to access ? Why not build a cookie or cookies that
supports multiple accounts ?

How do you accomplish access to multiple gmail accounts ?

Another, somewhat related topic… why not facilitate sorting for Inbox
1, Inbox 2, Send 1, Send 2 (e.g. custom defined folders, sub-folders)
to operate two accounts from one boilerplate GUI ? I’m quite
satisfied with Mozilla Thunderbird doing exactly this. Why not gmail ?

Facilitating multiple gmail accounts from one opening gmail page would
be great. Working with either from that page would be great.

Thanks