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cimoreneOkay. So... yesterday I tried to register a second delicious account for use with people who don't know my fandom name. And the email to my Real Life email address didn't arrive. And suddenly I remembered approximately 10 other emails to that gmail address that I should have gotten, and didn't get, over the last year, including one just last week.
The thing is, in the Account Settings in gmail, you can easily register a second account and link it to your primary account. Then, when you send messages, you can choose which one to display from a drop-down menu. This I set up a year ago. What I didn't realise is that while that automatically links the two accounts... it doesn't automatically link the INBOXES. Yes. Apparently, gmail is under the impression that there's a big demand for sending email from an email address, and then NOT HAVING THE REPLIES TO YOUR SENT MAIL COME BACK TO YOU (in the same place, that is - you can still get them by logging out of your account and then logging in as the second name). Well, I ask you. Why didn't that occur to me? Because it wasn't in the directions for linking the accounts and WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO DO THAT.
Anyway, I went looking, and found out I had to enable POP access while logged in as the secondary account, then set the primary account to collect the mail via pop in addition to the steps I had to go through a year ago, to show them both belonging to me in the first place.
UGH. I went back and found answers from my old high school friends whom I met last summer at the wedding - answers I had no idea of, which I therefore didn't answer. -_- So the upshot was that I added my second gmail account to my chat program's list of accounts. Since I have the ability to send messages to myself, there are now two copies of me on my buddy list at all times.
The thing is, in the Account Settings in gmail, you can easily register a second account and link it to your primary account. Then, when you send messages, you can choose which one to display from a drop-down menu. This I set up a year ago. What I didn't realise is that while that automatically links the two accounts... it doesn't automatically link the INBOXES. Yes. Apparently, gmail is under the impression that there's a big demand for sending email from an email address, and then NOT HAVING THE REPLIES TO YOUR SENT MAIL COME BACK TO YOU (in the same place, that is - you can still get them by logging out of your account and then logging in as the second name). Well, I ask you. Why didn't that occur to me? Because it wasn't in the directions for linking the accounts and WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO DO THAT.
Anyway, I went looking, and found out I had to enable POP access while logged in as the secondary account, then set the primary account to collect the mail via pop in addition to the steps I had to go through a year ago, to show them both belonging to me in the first place.
UGH. I went back and found answers from my old high school friends whom I met last summer at the wedding - answers I had no idea of, which I therefore didn't answer. -_- So the upshot was that I added my second gmail account to my chat program's list of accounts. Since I have the ability to send messages to myself, there are now two copies of me on my buddy list at all times.
