chromebook email challenge

[dianehelen]

Ok, learning my way thru ChromeOS. Pretty decent for the most part. Simplified, once you know the little nuances. But my challenge is with the Gmail Chrome version.

Here is my dilemma. I have a gmail acct (of course), also a hotmail acct, and 3 pop3 email a counts from my web server host.

Gmail will let me add those accts, to receive mail, but throws all into one mass inbox. This is a deal breaker. Also when I add the pop3 accts, it also grabs a copy of them into my Windows live mail on the PC. NOT good.

Are there any known apps , email clients (as they used to be called), that I can use on Chromebook, that I can set up with various email accts, and keep them in separate inboxes.

Thanks

 

[anon(5600632)]

You can do it in Gmail on your chromebook. First, in the gmail settings-labels, create labels that correspond to each of your different email accounts. Then using settings-filters, create filters that say that, for mail coming to a particular one of your email addresses, apply the label you created for that account. Also check "skip the inbox".

The result will be a gmail screen that shows multiple labels (aka folders in other kinds of email programs), with your new messages appearing where you want them.

I don't know about the Windows mail problem.

 

[dianehelen]

Hmm thanks. I'll give it a try. Thought I looked for that, but I'll look closer. Thanks

 

[dullgeek]

I'm confused as to why you don't just go to gmail.com for gmail, hotmail.com for hotmail, etc. That would keep them all separate. I think I'm not understanding something about what you're trying to do. Can you clarify?

 

[dianehelen]

I'm confused as to why you don't just go to gmail.com for gmail, hotmail.com for hotmail, etc. That would keep them all separate. I think I'm not understanding something about what you're trying to do. Can you clarify?

Well in trying to mirror my regular computer habits, I am used to Outlook, where I have all my accounts in one place and separate inboxes. Its just easier to have all mail in one place.

I have started working with labels and filters and it seems like that can work. Just different terminology for basically the same thing.

to go to gmail, hotmail, and my web server accounts would just be more time consuming to be constantly checking about a half dozen various business and personal accounts

 

[anon(5600632)]

It takes some adjustment, but dumping Outlook and consolidating everything in Gmail was well worth it. In addition to web-based mail, calendar & contacts synced across all devices, you'll also find that your laptop runs faster without that massive outlook.pst file to manipulate and backup.

 

[dianehelen]

I don't use a Windows laptop. The Outlook is on my business home office All-in-one very high spec desktop win7 professional.

I use either my now, new Chromebook, or mostly my galaxy note 10.1 2014 or my galaxy s4 phone

Bit by bit I see myself moving towards the googlesphere ;-)