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Why Isn't Gmail Fetching My Other Accounts?

by Kris Turner
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I have multiple email account coming into my gmail account, to make handling multiple markets much easier. And it was working great for a couple of months.

But a few days ago Gmail stopped fetching the mail from my other 4 accounts. Sometimes it'll check one or two of them every few hours, but others it hasn't collected from for days and nothing I do seems to fix it.

Any ideas on how I get it back to normal?

(checking it manually doesn't work - it sometimes works once, but then continues not collecting it.)
#accounts #fetching #gmail
  • Profile picture of the author danbcaut
    I would ask this question in the Gmail Help Forum.
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  • Profile picture of the author Aaron Riddell
    1.Assuming the other accounts are forwarded to your main gmail?

    2.Assuming you have added the other accounts as "contacts" in your main gmail?

    3.How full is your gmail?

    I have a gmail set up for my "list building" and I have noticed I get a lot of email. Has doubled in the last month along with activity.



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  • Profile picture of the author Damien Roche
    I would also advise you try the gmail forum. Are you having the other accounts forward every message to your master account?

    I've been doing this for a while and receive messages instantly - then I apply filters and have them automatically assigned to different labels. I've never had any problems.

    Hope that helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author Aj Wilson
    Sounds like your using "POP3" to fetch?

    It's better not to "fetch" but to "forward".

    I have all my cPanel accounts forwarded to ONE email address,
    Just go cPanel > mail > forwarders

    i.e.

    admin @ yourdomain . com
    support @ yourdomain . com
    your name @ yourdomain . com
    whatever @ yourdomain . com

    All forwarded to your gmail account.

    Then in gmail go to "settings" > "Accounts & Imports" > "send mail as"...

    then confirm all your email addresses,
    doing this will enable you to "send from" all those email addresses...

    and save bucket loads of time as you can control
    ALL your website/blogs emails from ONE email account.

    even if you have 100 sites.

    all the best!

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  • Profile picture of the author Kris Turner
    Thanks, everyone! There's always an answer at the Warrior Forum!

    You're right, AJ, I'm using POP3, and I think there are lots of liitle problems that it can cause doing it that way. I never even thought of going down the "forwarding" road, but now that I hear it, it makes perfect sense!
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    • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
      Originally Posted by Alex Taylor View Post

      You're right, AJ, I'm using POP3, and I think there are lots of liitle problems that it can cause doing it that way.
      GMail has been cracking down on POP3 checks lately; they've reduced the frequency of checks and the timeouts on connections. I have a couple people on my server who do this, and it's pretty clear in the logs.
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      • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
        Alex - check your other emails inboxes. If Gmail hasn't been removing emails from the server, then it's possible that the external inboxes are full and therefore not receiving any more emails.

        As Aj says, forwarding is the way to go.
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