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checkgmail package

how to add another email address in checkgmail?

Asked by Uri Shabtay

hi all,

i use checkgmail with my gmail account. i wanted to add another "gmail-type" account for my university mail (ends with ...@mail.huji.ac.il) and i have no clue how to do it.. i looked in the project's site - and got this:

(checkgmail) Can be run in multiple instances to check different mail accounts
Use the -profile=[profile name] command-line switch to set up a new account

i don't know how or where to do this, or maybe there's a better GUI way instead of the command line..

thanks in advance..

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Best Wyatt Smith (wyatt-smith) said : 		#1

For more information open a terminal and type

man checkgmail

I think you will have to create multiple profiles, run with -profile account flag, and run multiple instances. Personally the way I handle this is having using one feeder account which gets forwarded mail from the other accounts.

Hope this helps

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Uri Shabtay (uri.shabtay) said : 		#2

Thanks Wyatt Smith, that solved my question.

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Uri Shabtay (uri.shabtay) said : 		#3

i'll stay with what i have - forwarded mail from the main account

thanks

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Uri Shabtay (uri.shabtay) said : 		#4

by the way, i sound like a pathetic spoiled brat. lol

so truly, thanks a lot for the post, it really helped...

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Jerry (jerry-condo103) said : 		#5

How do I log into the gmail.com? I am now getting email on Evolution, but want to add gmail address? Need some help please

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Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10) said : 		#6

Go to Edit -> Preferences and then click add account

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Vikram Dhillon

On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 16:05 +0000, Jerry wrote:
> Question #50654 on checkgmail in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/checkgmail/+question/50654
>
> Jerry posted a new comment:
> How do I log into the gmail.com? I am now getting email on Evolution,
> but want to add gmail address? Need some help please
>