Ask HN: Best way to operate multiple Gmail accounts

Set up forwarding to one central account, and rules to label them. You can also set up rules about what the "FROM" address should be when replying.

There have been rumors about multi-account support in Gmail for a while, but who knows if that ever will be made public, so for now the above seems your best option.

there is a multiple sign in option with gmail... go to google.com/accounts once u r logged in... u can access multiple accs pretty easily... now i say its easy if its 2-3, 7 is gonna be a good try!

For multiple email accounts, why don't you use thunderbird?

That's a bad idea. For handling multiple accounts (even across multiple domains) in one place cleanly, check out Google Apps.

For your situation, I think one option is to have all those accounts forward to a central account, and have the central account filter the emails in to different labels/folders depending on the destination address.

I have 10 Gmail/Google Apps accounts so I had the same issue as you. Here's what I did: http://bit.ly/bSv0Sv

I access my gmail with a standalone email client. This works great for any number of accounts from different servers. I use Eudora.

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Same here!

I have 7 Facebook accounts ...

I do use Thunderbird, and it's working OK I guess. I just really like the UI of web Gmail. I'm not so sure if I like the idea of forwarding all of my mail places.