Organising e-mail adresses

[Scribbly]

Hi there!

Right now I have about 3 hotmail, 2 gmail and 2 school email adresses.

Naturally it would be quite handy to keep them all neatly organised.

So what I'd really like is ONE program which I can open and then quickly access all adresses seperately (don't want 1 huge inbox).

Also, (even if the previous isn't possible) I'd really for once like to manage all the adresses of other people; which program is best at that?

many thanks in advance
- Scrib

[Timmeh]

Outlook express'll do it... it's a decent program :)

Hotmail has a built in guide to setting up its addresses, gmail has instructions on the website... for the school, you'll need to find out their smtp or pop3 address... which may be a bit tricky, but you can ask the IT technician or someone :)

[Scribbly]

I just downloaded "thunderbird" which seems nice and all, but I need to know the adress thing for hotmail and gmail; anyone know what they are?

[Aladdin Sane]

G-Mail will tell you in the help section on their website on how to set-up Thunderbird. Hotmail will be slightly trickier, I used to use Hotmail Popper (http://www.boolean.ca/hotpop/) to get it to work in Thinderbird, but I think they may have withdrawn the ability to do this fromt their free accounts now. However I seem to remember reading somewhere that older hotmail addresses can still do this, so it's worth a go.

[Scribbly]

I can easily access hotmail with MSN, so that's no problem (the other adresses I hardly use).

Gmail works quite neatly, my school accounts are still being bitches..

Thanks for the help guys

[reno]

shit, beat me to it.

oh well, I only clicked on this thread because I thought it said "Orgasming e-mail addresses" 0_o

By the way, I recently found out that if you happen to have a yahoo account, you have to pay for a premium account to have pop3 access.

[Scribbly]

Yeah, hotmail did it too.. before that apparently you could use hotmail dipper or something

[budrick]

shit, beat me to it.

oh well, I only clicked on this thread because I thought it said "Orgasming e-mail addresses" 0_o

By the way, I recently found out that if you happen to have a yahoo account, you have to pay for a premium account to have pop3 access.

Not if you sign up at yahoo.co.uk (the .co.uk is important). I've had free POP3 access for a couple of years. You have to sign up to the "spam me to death based on your interests" programme, but I unticked ALL the options (which took a while), and haven't received a single one.

[Scribbly]

Thunderbird is working lovely with my Gmail and school adresses now. Thanks guys

By the way, isn't there a plugin for Firefox that says "Oi! You've got a new mail in thunderbird"?

[Al2]

Having nothing better to do, I have looked through all 219 Firefox plugins and 30 or so Thunderbind plugins, and no, there isn't.

[reno]

yeah, for that, you just use thunderbird. 0_o.

[Scribbly]

Yes, but it's in my taskbar, I can't even minimize it to my little icon collection thing in the lower right corner (y'know, with the time and such)

[Al2]

I'm sure you can. Hunt the options :)

[Scribbly]

Nnnope, can't find it anywhere..
Thanks for browsing through all the extentions though (you must've been really bored :p )

[Aladdin Sane]

Yes, but it's in my taskbar, I can't even minimize it to my little icon collection thing in the lower right corner (y'know, with the time and such)

MinimizeToTray (http://minimizetotray.mozdev.org/) should do the trick.

[Scribbly]

Excellent! Exactly what I need

thanks dude