Accessing multiple Gmail accounts from one Gmail account

I read Stan Schroeder’s nice article, 5 Ways To Log Into Several Gmail Accounts At The Same Time, and found another way to achieve these goals.

My method is an improvement on method 2, Master account, from his article.  With this method, you will only need to log in to one Gmail account to access all of your other Gmail accounts, and all of your other POP3 accounts, as well!

I use this system to access multiple Gmail accounts and a POP3 account on my Droid 2, Outlook, and Web access.  I only need to add one Gmail account to Outlook and my Droid 2, so access and retrieval is quick!

As in Stan’s Master account idea, you will have one account in to which you will sign in to access the other e-mails.

1.  From all of your Gmail accounts other than your master account (i.e., not from the one account you will use to access the other accounts), activate POP access.

In your Gmail account, access Settings > Forwarding and POP/IMAP, and select either one of the Enable POP options.  Decide whether or not to keep e-mail on the server, archive it, or delete it when it’s accessed.

2.  In your master account, access Settings > Accounts and Import, and click Add POP3 email account in the Check mail using POP3 area.

Follow the wizard.  Add the e-mail address of your other Gmail accounts and click Next.
For the Username box, enter your entire Gmail username.
In the POP Server box, enter:  pop.gmail.com.
Specify Port 995.
Select Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail.
Select Label incoming messages as it makes it easier to figure out which e-mails came from which account.
Click Add Account.

You can also configure the account to allow you to send e-mail from the other e-mail address, so that it does not come from your master account address.

The outgoing mail server is smtp.gmail.com, port 587, do not use SSL encryption.

Why won’t Pugster leave me alone?

I signed up for Commission Junction (CJ) about a year ago.  I got tired of the spam, and no money earned, so I called CJ and cancelled my account.  All of the e-mails stopped immediately, except for Pugster’s marketing e-mails.

Pugster is some company that sells jewelry and other items.  I’m not interested in receiving e-mails from Pugster, so I look through the e-mail for an unsubscribe link or unsubscribe directions.  I find no such thing.  Next, I look for a physical address (required by law when sending out advertising e-mails); again, they lack the required information.

They do list some e-mail addresses that we can use to contact them, however, so I forward the e-mail to those e-mail addresses and ask politely for them to remove me from the e-mail list.  I get no reply, except more marketing e-mails.

I go on the Internet and look for a phone number for them; I found 800-555-1212.  They obviously don’t want to receive calls.  I kept searching and found another number, listed as a “voice number,” this goes to a fax machine.

I go to their site and look for contact information, unsubcribe instructions, or a way to cancel my account; although I can find e-mail addresses, I cannot find a phone number.  I continue to send e-mails (first politely asking them to stop, then directly ordering them to stop) to no avail.

Finally, I contact Commission Junction and explain it to them and ask them to have Pugster stop sending me e-mails.  The phone rep I spoke with told me to configure my spam filter to delete incoming Pugster e-mails.  I told her that I need for them to stop sending them.

She then tells me she can contact Commission Junction’s Compliance Department and explain that Pugster is not in compliance.  She said that she cannot guarantee that Pugster will stop.  I asked that if she fails to get them to stop, if she can escalate the matter to a supervisor, and she said that she cannot guarantee that she can escalate the issue to a supervisor.

She said she will contact me back this week to let me know whether or not Pugster chooses to get into compliance or not.  I told her if not, I will seek a legal remedy for this situation.