Various email addresses out of control!!

downshifter

Dear all, I wonder if someone can help me with this, or maybe it isn't possible. I have 4 email addresses: A and B are work ones, and C and D are home ones. A and B forward to C as I work from home quite a bit. Some C emails also forward to D too, so that I only need to check one place when I use my phone to read them. At home I have outlook express and outlook (2 diff computers), depending on whether I'm quickly checking emails in kitchen or seriously working upstairs. At work I have Outlook Express. As both C and D are gmail accounts I can access them via any net connection (usually via my phone in fact).The online gmail accounts help to keep me sane, but of course my work ones, A and B, aren't available online which is why I make sure they forward. I'd happily use gmail online for all of them except that I find the website a bit confusing and it's hard to organise them all in the way that OE allows me to. I also like to work offline too as I only have dialup access to the net. I have yet another gmail account which I use for things that might bring in spam, such as competition entries etc. This isn't really relevant to my problem though as it's quite separate.

It all gets a bit confusing and out of control. For example, if I send an email from account A from work using outlook express, (and forget to bcc to myself) I have no record of it when I get home, however if I send via C, obviously it's in the gmail account online. Someone has suggested using imap but I don't really understand what that is or how it works, apparently it would mean that whenever I delete or send from work it would update home too. Which would be a help for a start.

So far I think I've managed to avoid sending a reply to someone twice but it's only a matter of time! Can someone help me unravel it all? Or is there another way round it?

Thanks, Jan

timbim_2

Could you not just work it all from one gmail account using filters and labels?

John_Gray

At that rate you could end up with a situation where an email received by A is forwarded to B, then forwarded by B to C, then forwarded by C to D -- then forwarded by D back to A again (and so on, ad infinitum).

Remember the Law of Efficiency: the best way to optimise something is not to do it at all...

downshifter

timbim wrote: »

Could you not just work it all from one gmail account using filters and labels?

I'd love to but unfortunately I need the offline access, and also because of no broadband I can really only use the basic level of gmail which doesn't give me the full benefit of all the features.

John_Gray wrote: »

At that rate you could end up with a situation where an email received by A is forwarded to B, then forwarded by B to C, then forwarded by C to D -- then forwarded by D back to A again (and so on, ad infinitum).

Haha. So far that hasn't happened, - only a matter of time though!! though I do see the same stuff more often than I expect. I'd like to be able to shove it in a folder and have the same happen in the other places.

timbim_2

You could use just one mail client installed via portable apps on a usb drive and use that for imap acess to one gmail account, and take that into work with you...