I continue the series of articles about the function of collecting mail to one main email account from any others located on any postal services. In the previous article we talked about setting up mail collection on the Yandex service, which is easy to do. And in this article I will talk about how to do the same in another, no less popular service today - Mail.ru, where many people still keep their main mailbox Email, despite the fact that, for example, GMail service has clear advantages (we'll talk about setting up mail collection in Gmail). But as they say, to each his own and sometimes it’s just a matter of habit :)
Setting up mail collection in the Mail.ru service is as easy as, for example, in Yandex. Literally a few simple steps and everything will be ready, mail will begin to flow from the mailboxes you connected to one on Mail.
The process of setting up mail collection in the Mail.ru service
First of all, log into your Mail account, where you will collect mail from others electronic mailboxes and open the “Letters” section (mail is located there).
Now you need to go to your mail settings. To do this, click the “More” button at the top and select “Settings”.
You can also open the settings by clicking on your email address in the upper right corner and then selecting “Mail Settings”.
Then go to the “Mail from other mailboxes” section.
The first window for connecting a second email box will open.
Let me remind you that the second email box from which you want to collect letters can be located on any service, not just Mail!
In the example for this article, we will consider connecting a mailbox located on the Yandex service.
In this window you need to specify the login and password for the mail you are connecting. If the mailbox you are connecting is on one of the services listed below, then click the corresponding button at the top, enter the full address of the mail you are connecting below and click “Add mailbox”:
If the mailbox you want to connect is located on some other service (not from the list above), then click the “Other mail” button at the top, after which you need to enter the full address of the mail you want to connect, the password for it and click “Add mailbox”.
If you have not yet logged into your second email account in this browser, which you are connecting, then in the next window you will need to enter your login and password for it. Example:
After that, click “Allow” (you allow mail on Mail.ru to use some data from the connected second mail).
If everything went as expected, you will receive a message stating that the collector has been added. Now you need to choose which folder to collect mail in: in a specially created folder by the name of the mail you connected or in your inbox. It's up to you to decide, but, in my opinion, it is more convenient when mail collected from another mailbox goes into a separate folder. One way or another, this can then be configured by filtering letters.
The “Apply filters to received messages” option means that all the filters that you already have configured in your main mail on Mail will also apply to mail received from the connected mailbox. It's up to you to turn it off or not.
That's it, the mail collector is set up! Now, within a few minutes (sometimes the process takes longer if there are a lot of letters on the connected mailbox), mail from the second mailbox will begin to flow into your main mailbox.
In this way, you can connect as many mails as you like to collect.
How to separately see all letters from connected mail?
You can view letters separately if, when setting up mail collection in Mail, you specified that letters should be collected in a separate folder with the name of the connected mailbox. In this case, open this folder and see everything necessary letters. Example:
If you did not immediately set up the receipt of letters in a separate folder, you can set it up at any time by opening the created collector (more on this below).
Configuring the created mail collector, disabling and enabling it
Sometimes you may need to make changes to the settings of the mail collector you created, as well as disable it or enable it again.
This can be done in the same place in the “Settings” - “Mail from other mailboxes” section, where you initially created your letter collector.
Here you will see the created faucet. If you need to disable it or enable it again, click on the corresponding switch. If you need to open the collector settings, click “Edit”.
And the same settings for the mail collector will open as at the stage of its creation (see).
Many tricks will help make working with email more convenient - SMS notifications, autoresponder, mail collector and other features.
Despite the ubiquity of programs and services for quickly exchanging small messages (ICQ, Google Talk and others), good old e-mail - the method of exchanging information with which, generally speaking, the Internet began - still enjoys popularity, honor and respect.
Unfortunately, electronic mailboxes many of us are used, as they say, not to their full potential. Did you know, for example, that several mailboxes, even located in different mail services, can actually be combined into one? Or that you don’t have to sit near the screen while waiting for an important letter, because you can set up an SMS notification? These and many other features are hidden in the settings of your mailboxes; getting to them is a matter of a few clicks, but you need to know which way to dig.
"We are not at home"
If for one reason or another you will be cut off from the Internet for a long time (anything can happen - you caught a cold, went to the country or on vacation), then it makes sense to turn on the so-called answering machine for this period, which will inform all incoming letters that the owner The box has left “for Paris on urgent business” and will not respond immediately.
In the Mail.ru system (www.mail.ru), this feature can be accessed by going to your mailbox, clicking on top menu the “More” button, selecting the “Settings” item, and in it - the “Letter Wizard” menu. At the bottom of the page that opens, you will see the “Autoresponder” section. By checking the box next to “Enable auto-reply”, fill in the “Auto-reply text” field. In it, you are free to write whatever you want, as long as your subscriber understands that you cannot read his letter right now, but as soon as you find yourself at the computer, you will read it immediately. Under the text field, you can set the operating time of the answering machine - you can specify not only the date, but even hours and minutes. In order for the autoresponder to work, you must enter the password you use to log into your mail.
In Yandex.Mail (mail.yandex.ru), the answering machine is available in the Settings - Mail processing rules menu. To enable it, you need to click the “Create rule” button, and then in the “Perform action” section, select “Reply with the following text” and enter the desired text in the field (like “I can’t read your letter right now, but I promise to do so, like Only I will have this opportunity." When finished, click the Create Rule button.
There is also an autoresponder in the popular email system Gmail (www.gmail.com). You can enable it in the settings by clicking on the gear image in the upper corner. In the settings section, go to the “General” tab and set the switch to the “Enable answering machine” position. In this case, you can set up an answering machine so that letters about your unavailability will be sent only to those added to the contact list - strangers will not know about the absence of the owner of the mailbox.
All mail in one box
If you use several mailboxes, then the “mail collection” function may be useful to you. Almost any email system allows you to connect to other email addresses and download emails from them. This way, you will no longer need to monitor several boxes at once - all correspondence will be stored in one place. In Mail.ru, the “mail collector” is located in the “Settings - Mail collector (POP3 server)” section. This function is configured as follows: you need to specify the name of the POP3 server and enter the password for the mailbox. For example, if you want letters from Yandex.Mail to be sent to your mailbox on Mail.ru, specify the server address pop.yandex.ru and the password that you use in Yandex mail. And if you need your mail system to “pick up” mail from Gmail, then the pop3 server address should be like this: pop.gmail.com. You can find out what the pop3 servers of other mail services are called on the websites of these services. There are quite a lot of them on the Internet, and it will be difficult to mention each of them.
In Yandex.Mail, collecting letters from other mailboxes is easier to set up: you just need to specify the e-mail from which you want to download letters and the password for it. The system will perform all other settings independently. In Gmail, the “mail collector” is configured in the “Mail Settings - Accounts and Import” section. In this tab there is a section “Collecting mail from other accounts”.
By the way, there is another way to collect all the mail in one box. So, in each of your email boxes, you can indicate that you want to redirect all incoming correspondence to one or another address. So, in Yandex.Mail this is done in the “Rules for processing incoming mail”. Having entered this section, click on the “Create rule” button and select the action called “Forward to address”, then specify the address to which mail should be forwarded. In Mail.ru, mail redirection is managed by the “Forwarding” menu in the settings section, and in Gmail, in order to configure the forwarding of letters, go to the “Mail Settings - Forwarding and POP/IMAP” section, then in the first drop-down menu select “Add” new email address".
Uninvited guests
They know how postal systems and “cut off” letters that you, for one reason or another, do not want to see in your mailbox. In Yandex.Mail, you can add the address of a person to the so-called “black list” in the “Settings - Rules for processing incoming mail”. In the black field, simply indicate the “unfriendly” e-mail and click the “add” button. The “Black List” item also exists in the Mail.ru mailbox settings. In Gmail, the easiest way is to click the “Spam!” button. - a letter from an unpleasant addressee will move to the “trash can”, and the same thing will happen in the future, but without your participation.
Mail to SMS
While waiting for an important letter, it is absolutely not necessary to sit for hours in front of the computer and check your email every minute. For example, Mail.ru allows you to configure the sending of SMS notifications about the arrival of new letters. In the “SMS notifications” section, enter your mobile phone number and check the box next to “Notify about new mail by SMS”. You can also choose a time when SMS about new letters will not be sent - for example, it is unlikely that anyone will want to be disturbed at night. Gmail and Yandex.Mail do not yet provide such an option, but Yandex mail allows you to send a letter to one or another when sending a letter. mobile number notification. This can be done by clicking on the “Additional options” link at the bottom of the letter writing form and indicating the phone number in the corresponding window.
“Registered with acknowledgment of delivery”
Mail systems allow you to find out whether a letter has been delivered to its recipient. After the recipient of the message opens it, a special letter will be sent to you in response, which will tell you about this. In Yandex.Mail, this is done using the “Additional parameters” link under the text of a new letter - in the window that opens, you just need to check the box next to the “Notify about receiving a letter” item. Here are the developers Gmail They consider such a function unnecessary - in any case, they could not find it in the settings.
For iPhone and iPad. The main update is one, but significant: it is the ability to collect all the user’s mailboxes in one place, namely in the Mail.Ru Mail application.
All mail in one place. Most of us have several emails - for work, for registering on various forums, coupon sites and online stores, and for the soul (read - for communicating with friends, relatives, etc.). In the previous version of the Mail.Ru application, the developers took the first step towards streamlining the management of the “zoo” of accounts: they added support for multiple mailboxes.
Now in the Mail.Ru Mail client you can work not only with mailboxes on this service, but also with Gmail accounts, Rambler, Yahoo, Outlook and other providers that support IMAP/POP3. Switching between boxes is very simple - it's a matter of one click. While a user is viewing one account, others are patiently waiting for their turn.
The application does not rearrange the order in different boxes in its own way. In each of the accounts, you can continue to follow exactly the logic of work to which you have become accustomed. For example, in the interface of the Mail.Ru application, the names and structure of folders, checkboxes and other mailbox settings on Gmail will remain the same as in big version Gmail. In addition, in the application you can individually configure each of the accounts: set a signature, enable or disable the display of icons, configure the operation of the push notification system.
Push notifications. Advanced push notifications deserve special mention. Firstly (and this is one of the main bonuses of the application), they can be enabled even for accounts on those services that cannot send pushes.
Secondly, they can be configured exactly as you wish, specifying in detail what time they should arrive and what to report. It is possible to mark by name the recipients whose messages you are willing to read day and night (for example, letters from your mother), or strictly from 9 to 19:00 (most likely, these will be letters from clients or colleagues). You can turn alerts on or off for specific accounts, folders, or recipients.
The developers have thoughtfully provided a button that allows you to immediately disable notifications about mailings from social networks or coupon services. You can also set the content of push notifications: you may want to hide the recipient's name or subject line for privacy reasons.
Quick actions. For comfortable work With letters in the application there is a menu of quick actions. To call up these magical buttons, you just need to swipe from right to left on the desired message in the list of letters. With their help, you can delete a letter, check a box, move it to another folder, send it to spam, etc. All actions are performed in one click.
Avatars of recipients and services will help you navigate your mail. They are visible in the list of letters, when reading and writing letters, and, as already mentioned, in push notifications. When reading and writing a letter, the user sees an avatar of the sender or recipient, as well as a preview of attachments. If photographs or drawings are attached, thumbnails of the images are displayed. By the way, you can view attachments without leaving the cash register, i.e. right in the app.
Caching. Caching will be very useful in places where the Internet is not very good, for example, in the subway. The owner of a smartphone with the Mail.Ru email client will be able to read texts and view photos even in the absence of a network.
Hints. The application prompts you for the required email, you just need to enter the first letters in address bar(provided that you wrote to this recipient at least once - it doesn’t matter in the main version of Mail or in the application). In addition, the client, at your request, will add phone contacts to the list of respondents.
Let's be objective - the Mail.Ru email application is made to last. And if earlier you used sophisticated pushes, enjoyed avatars in the list of letters, etc. was possible only if you had a mailbox on Mail.Ru, now users of the same Mail.Ru will be able to collect other mailboxes in the application (and those who prefer other services can at least test the client).
Switching from one tab with Gmail to another with Yandex.Mail is quite tedious. And if you have ten accounts With different mail providers, checking new correspondence in the morning turns into torture. By combining letters in one place, you will get rid of this inconvenience.
Web interface
Most email providers provide a built-in feature for collecting emails from multiple mailboxes. For example, let's try to collect letters from all your mailboxes in one Gmail account.
First of all, make sure that postal service, from where you want to pick up letters, there is access via the POP protocol. Then go to Gmail settings and click Settings in the top right corner. Go to the “Accounts” tab and look for the “Receive mail from other accounts” section.
Add an account, enter your email address and click Next, then enter your password. To make mail exchange between providers more secure, make sure that the “Always use a secure connection (SSL) when receiving mail” option is enabled. Then click on “Add account”.
Now letters arriving at the added address will be automatically collected in the Inbox of your Gmail. You can add as many mailing addresses as you need.
Desktop clients
Email needs software. Yes, you can do a lot in the web mail client (sometimes much more than Google currently allows you to do in Gmail). But the web interface cannot be compared with a native application. Even the most modern Web UI is a bottleneck when working with mail.
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Desktop email clients good because they can aggregate letters from multiple accounts. At the same time, you can work with dozens of addresses and not even think about which provider stores this or that message.
Most desktop email clients have a built-in shared Inbox. Even if your favorite client only supports individual inboxes, you can still easily bring them together using smart filters.
Even though Outlook is designed to manage multiple mailboxes at once, it still displays a separate Inbox for each account. But this can be easily fixed using filters.
Open Outlook, go to the Folders tab and click New Search Folder on the toolbar. Then select "Create a custom search folder." Click Select, but do not select any search criteria, so that all new messages are sent to the folder. Name the folder anything you like, for example “All Mail”.
Click on “Browse”, select all the folders and mailboxes from which you want to collect mail, and check the “Search in subfolders” option.
Now the smart folder you created will contain emails from all the email accounts you added to Outlook. You can enable the "Show in Favorites" option so that your new mail was always in sight.
The Mac email client provides a single inbox for all connected accounts. Just add your accounts, and all new letters will be collected in one place.
In Thunderbird, collecting all your emails in one inbox is easy. Go to the View menu (if the menu bar is not displayed, press Alt). Then select “Folders” → “Merged”. You will now have one Inbox for new emails, one Drafts folder, one Sent Items folder, and one Archive folder. You won't have to look for long to find out what's where. In this case, messages will, as before, be stored on the servers of your mail providers.
Mobile clients
Unified Inbox is available in many mobile email clients, including Gmail. The Gmail app collects your inbox from all email accounts, including Yahoo, Outlook, or other services.
If you don't like Google's app, you can try third-party email clients such as Outlook or MyMail.
Maybe you have your own ideas on how to group mail in one place? Share in the comments.
It is now possible to easily and quickly switch between them, without having to log out of one account to log into another.
Well, now working with different boxes has become much more practical, without unnecessary movements. :)
So, in order for us to switch between several accounts in one tab, we will need to link them together. On this moment You can add 5 accounts to the list.
You can do this from any Yandex mailbox by clicking on your avatar in the upper right corner. And then select the first item in the drop-down list – “Add user”.
To do this, click on the avatar on the right again, and in the drop-down list we see our associated box. Actually, by clicking on it, we will immediately get inside.
We add other accounts in the same way.
If you later need to delete an account, then while you are in it, in the same drop-down list, click on “Exit”. This mail will disappear from the list, and you will switch to the previous one.
This is how convenient it is!
The function is quite new now, I think it will be further developed. It is not yet possible to open different mailboxes in separate tabs at the same time, since when opening we exit the previous mail in both tabs.
Also, if we log in from a different browser, then the emails need to be linked in a new way.
In addition, switching is not available on other Yandex services (Metrica, Webmaster, Direct, etc.). That is, we log in to them in the account in which we currently have mail open.
Yes, if you work with your accounts from someone else’s computer, do not forget to log out of them afterwards. home page Yandex. And refuse when the browser asks you to remember your password.
When you sign out of your account on the main page or in search results, all previously linked accounts will be removed from the list and you will need to log in again.
Well, if you forgot to log out of your mailbox on someone else’s computer, then go to “Passport” (drop-down menu when you click on the avatar). And there click “Log out on all computers”.
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