Three email addresses-one login?

[Mr.Mike]

Hello All,

My client is now logging into his Yahoo email accounts and has to use three separate logins to get to them (based on his three individual addresses). His goal is to login only once to access all three addresses. No surprise there. One address is used exclusively for eBay transactions for a business. Another is set up as a sub-account, also for his business. The third is a personal email address (all accessed through Yahoo mail).

Can anyone suggest a proper way to set up email access using just on login action? Something like: Go to email program or online mail server. Login address/PW. Switch between three active accounts.

My original suggestion to him was to login to all three accounts seperately at the start of the day and keep them open and minimized on the desktop and just access when needed.

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to take on this one.

 

[Jamie3188]

Why don't you just use Outlook?

You can have more that 1 POP account in outlook.

Very easy to manage and I have a few clients who have this set up?

 

[ProTech Support]

Why don't you just use Outlook?

You can have more that 1 POP account in outlook.

Very easy to manage and I have a few clients who have this set up?

I would use a program like Outlook, setup the multiple e-mail address's and have them go into different folders. This is what I do for my e-mail. Here is an example:

sales@protechhosting.net goes in the "Sales" folder
support@protechhosting.net goes in the "Support" folder

 

[Daifne]

If these are free, USA Yahoo accounts, then there is no POP3 access. There is an extension for Thunderbird which can be used to get around this.

 

[ProTech Support]

If these are free, USA Yahoo accounts, then there is no POP3 access. There is an extension for Thunderbird which can be used to get around this.

Ah, I forgot about that. I must have fell into a loophole with them. I once had hosting with them, and with the hosting you were allowed POP3 access to e-mail. After a couple of months I dropped the hosting and hosted it myself, but they never cutoff my POP3 access .

 

[pc-wiz]

I use Thunderbird and it works good. It is alot less cluttered than outlook

 

[tminer]

I think yahoo has a feature you can pay for that allows pop3, not sure if its incoming, outgoing or both but you might wanna check into that.

Might also be able to forward the other two to one main account.

I would recommend outlook as well but some people just like yahoo. Kinda like back in the day trying to get someone to switch away from AOL and they were scared as hell. lmao

 

[Daifne]

I think yahoo has a feature you can pay for that allows pop3, not sure if its incoming, outgoing or both but you might wanna check into that.

Might also be able to forward the other two to one main account.

I would recommend outlook as well but some people just like yahoo. Kinda like back in the day trying to get someone to switch away from AOL and they were scared as hell. lmao

You can get Yahoo Plus accounts that have POP3 access.

POP3 is for incoming only. SMTP is outgoing. The Plus accounts also give SMTP servers.

Outlook may be a lot more than he needs. Outlook Express would be better, but it's not available after Windows XP. Windows Mail was in Vista, but it's not included in Windows 7. Thunderbird works fine on all three and is more similar to the other two rather than Outlook.

BTW, it looks like Thunderbird version 3 is going to be released sometime today. Don't hold me to that... Things could come up to hold the release.

 

[wmacquinn]

In yahoo mail you can go to option, accounts, add account. He can use one login and see several accounts.

 

[anonymous Mac Tech]

I know some web mail clients will let you manage all the accounts through one account. I used to do something like that with Comcast.

 

[Skyhooker]

I just started using Thunderbird a few weeks ago myself, and I really like it. One great thing is that, once you get it all configured (which took a while for me, since I use it to access two Hotmail, one Gmail, one "powered by Gmail" account, and one business account), you can simply copy the Profile folder over to any other computer and it's all set up. Now I just open the program and it logs in and checks each account for new mail automatically.

Oh, and I also copied the Profile to my portable Thunderbird in the PortableApps suite so I can take it wherever I go.

 

[atlanticjim]

1. Use Outlook or another client that manages POP SMTP and IMAP and set them up accordingly. I use this with my business email and have things drop into the appropriate inbox, with my personal email account that I have had for 25 years and with a gmail account that I use for online transactions. All arrives automatically to Outlook and when I reply it uses the appropriate outgoing mail server so it is transparent to the end user.
or
2. use the web based email and forward everything to one main box. The disadvantage with this is when you reply you will be replying from the email account that everything funnells to.

 

[Daifne]

1. Use Outlook or another client that manages POP SMTP and IMAP and set them up accordingly.

Once again, these are Yahoo accounts. If they are the free USA email accounts, there is not POP3, IMAP or SMTP access. They don't provide them.

 

[tminer]

Once again, these are Yahoo accounts. If they are the free USA email accounts, there is not POP3, IMAP or SMTP access. They don't provide them.

They do if you pay yahoo for it. Its one of the advanced options. I dont recall the cost but it wasnt very much.

 

[ZenMike]

I don't think you can do what you want with the free Yahoo account. To do what you want requires Yahoo Mail Plus, which is $20/year (possibly per account depending on how they're setup).

You can then use the Yahoo web client (or any client including Outlook, Thunderbird, or GMail's web client) to access all your accounts.

 

[Tweak]

I was thinking along the lines of others and would suggest using one account to manage all via a webmail such as GMail. (My preference would be go with the G)

 

[ZenMike]

I was thinking along the lines of others and would suggest using one account to manage all via a webmail such as GMail. (My preference would be go with the G)

I really like the GMail interface. I use it as my primary email client and pull in my Yahoo and domain email.

 

[Daifne]

They do if you pay yahoo for it. Its one of the advanced options. I dont recall the cost but it wasnt very much.

Which I also already mentioned... Don't people read these threads before replying?

 

[tminer]

Which I also already mentioned... Don't people read these threads before replying?

Um actually i was the first one to mention the paid service back on page one