Aggregate all E-mails on MBP

Is there a way (software) that you can aggregate different e-mail accounts on a MBP, rather then logging onto each account separately. Ie; AOL, yahoo,cable co, etc

 

If they have POP3 login then this should not be a problem just use any mail program. If you are using webmail then you can check if there is a firefox add in for the different sites.

 

try mozilla thunderbird...it does gmail, yahoo, hotmail, ect... download it, and then look under extensions to find the webmail extension...

 

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/


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http://webmail.mozdev.org/

 

Mail.app will do this. In fact, any mail app will do this. A better alternative to Mail.app is Thunderbird.

 

Mail.app has a really neat threading structure though that Thunderbird doesn't have

BTW, what was the thunderbird equivalent of camino?

 

There isn't one. What is the threading you are talking about? I have not seen that. And if you have IMAP, Mail.app is not the best choice, btw. That is why I am using Thunderbird.

 

Unfortunately Entourage doesn't handle Gmail or AOL.

 

Really? Are you sure? I have never used Entourage, but there are reasons for that. Mainly that it is Outlook's ugly stepchild.

 

Yes, Entourage does work with GMail. Entourage & GMail Instructions.

I don't have AOL so I'm not sure about that one. But I've read that you can use Outlook with AOL so I'd assume AOL and Entourage will work too.

 

Unfortunately, all my current e-mail accounts are gmail accounts, and they only support POP Really get with the program gmail!

That'll probably change soon though, so I'll end up using thunderbird again or entourage.

Basically mail.app groups the topics with a similar subject (or subjects replied to in the same conversation) together in the list pane. All mail apps have this feature this to some extent, but I've always found the algorithm to be flawed or sort of clumsy to use depending on how you like your messages sorted.

For example, in thunderbird, every once in a while you'll get a new message that doesn't show up at the bottom of the list, but in some obscure message thread in the middle of the list because it thought that it was a response to that message, and won't update the list correctly, depending on if you sort by date received or date sent. Refreshing the list fixes it, but still.

Also I've had problems with Thunderbird and multiple gmail accounts - but that may be just a gmail thing.

I haven't seen mistaken threads in mail yet, and this problem doesn't happen much in mail.app at all. Also, I like how Mail just groups them into one large header summarizing the threads.

Outlook actually has a pretty robust and decent way of sorting threads and messages within layer after layer - it's annoyingly complicated with all the different options available. We'll see what Entourage 2007 is like.

 

Yes, I have Gmail and I cannot get Entourage to understand who or what gmail is? When setting up a new account and I type in my Gmail address Entourage doesn't recognize it and a message states that Entourage is unfamiliar with the internet provider. Same experience with AOL but that was a while back.

 

I'm 100% certain that Entourage 2004 DOES WORK with GMail. I already posted these Instructions to Configure Entourage & GMail.

Troubleshooting suggestions would be to follow the instructions carefully and step-by-step; did you enable POP in GMail properly - that's step #1? You may also want to run Microsoft AutoUpdate.

 

How can we transfer mail.app emails to thunderbird?

Thunderbird doesn't support importing from mail.app

 

Try this:
http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/faq.html#mail.app

 

Hrm, what's wrong with Mail.app? I am using it to access several iMap accounts as well as an exchange account and it seems to deal just fine with that.

I used Thunderbird on Windows - it's better than the god-awful Outlook but I find Mail.app just a little bit nicer.

Mail.app tip of the day:

You know how you have all your accounts / mailboxes in the left side of the window? If you select one mailbox, the right pane shows all messages - pretty normal.
But in Mail.app, you can select multiple mailboxes (hold down cmd, or with shift just like in any list view) and the right pane will show an aggregate of all messages in those mailboxes, preserving the current sort order. That's unique about Mail.app - you can view all your mails by date, across all mailboxes, or just some...

Second tip: You can make smart mailboxes that work with flags (like - show all flagged mails). This is supposed to work with Thunderbird as well but I have never gotten it to work with my Exchange account. In Mail.app, it just works. So now I flag all mails I want to deal with later, and have a smart folder with "todo" mails. Simple.