Multiple Gmail account support

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Anyone know if Android will smoothly support using it with 2 google accounts? i have a personal account and a work account, with both i use Gmail and Calendars. It would be nice if i could merge them both on my G1, any idea if this will be supported?
 
The "push" support for GMail will only work for one account.

You can set up the E-Mail app (not the GMail app) to get your OTHER GMail account through IMAP, so it'll work the same way (just not Push, we don't think).

As for Calendars, just use the web interface of the GMail account you sign into the G1 phone with to SUBSCRIBE to the calendars of the OTHER GMail account. That way, all calendars will be push synced to your G1.
 
I read in the owner's manuel it can support up to 5 e-mail accounts, i understand you have to have a google acct to activate , but i also have a yahoo acct as well, how will the "push" on the google differ, from theyahoo acct????????? I guess what im asking is what does "push" mean, would hate to have to change my -email acct of 12 years!
 
There are two different e-mail programs on the phone...a GMail program, and an E-Mail program. The GMail app will ONLY check your GMail account that you signed into the phone with. E-Mail messages to your signed-in GMail account will be "Pushed" instantly to your device.

The E-Mail app will check up to 5 additional e-mail accounts, they can be GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo!, whatever you want. They will work on the "Fetch" protocol, meaning the app will check on an interval (15, 30, 60 minutes) or manually...NOT push.
 
This has been discussed before. Push is the email server telling your phone there is new email, meaning you instantaneously (subject to data speeds) know if there is new email. "Pull" (what the 5 additional accounts, including your yahoo one will be using on the phone) is the phone asking the email server if there is email every few minutes (amount of time can be set), thus is not instantaneous.
 
you can also have any email address forwarded to your gmail account even other g mail accounts.. then you have one login with multiple accounts
 
Sounds good, but this is a question I've been thinking about. Is it possible to change the Gmail account you sign in with? Reason I ask is that I currently have a Gmail account and will use that when I get my phone, but recently I've been thinking about changing it cause I get way too much junk mail and I want to start over with a new email address.
Will the G1 let you change the account whenever you want?
 
Being the case for the online infrastructure, we can look forward to a Gspace on the android.

Along with server apps.
 
this is the question I want to ask too. I haven't read anything about switching your main gmail acct on the phone.
does anybody know?
 
I think I heard someone mention something that you would have to restore it to factory settings for you to put in a different email address. Which wouldn't be a big deal since you'd probably transfer your numbers and events to your new gmail account.

Don't quote me on it. lol
 
FTR , yes you can manage multiple gmails.. just sign out and then sign in . but you must have a gmail account, that is the requirement.

You are not going to be locked to one email nor have to jump through hoops to change it.

I currently use the mail fetcher embedded in gmail to manage and see in labels my mixed accounts for personal work and art etc.. and it should still be the same for my gmail account on the gphone since its account implemented.

Not being able to sign out would be a security flaw.
 
Actually, the built-in GMail app with push support only allows one GMail account. Any other accounts, GMail or otherwise, have to be put into the regular e-mail app.

It has been discovered that to switch GMail accounts on the phone (for push e-mail, contacts, and calendar), a factory reset has to be performed, erasing all sensitive data.

This is straight from many people who have demoed the phone.
 
Hmmmm I've never really thought about "push emails". I have the blackberry curve and I know it has push email that's why I get my msgs instantly. So when I get the G1 and the email app will not have the push, is there a significant lag of receiving email??

*sorry if this question was already answered on some other threads*
 
Well, what I just said is that the GMail app IS push e-mail.

So, all you need to do is go into the web interface of your CURRENT e-mail address, and tell it to automatically forward all e-mail messages to your GMail address. That way, as soon as your "[email protected]" address gets a message, it is immediately forwarded to "[email protected]" and thus PUSHED to your device.

You can also set up your GMail account to "Send mail as '[email protected]'" so that no one will ever know you have a GMail account...it will look as though it was written through Hotmail even though you wrote it using the Push GMail client on your phone.
 
No, I was curious about the additional 5 email apps coz they're not going to have the push.


"So, all you need to do is go into the web interface of your CURRENT e-mail address, and tell it to automatically forward all e-mail messages to your GMail address. That way, as soon as your "[email protected]" address gets a message, it is immediately forwarded to "[email protected]" and thus PUSHED to your device."

ok that's great. then, that way I can still get my msgs without lag. Thanks!!!!
 
The seperate e-mail app (Called E-Mail on the device as opposed to GMail) will allow you to "fetch" up to 5 additional e-mail addresses.

It will function as "fetch", meaning that it will not PUSH new messages to you, you need to set the app to FETCH for you on a time schedule (15, 30, 60 minutes) or manually (only check when I push the button).
 
Thanks for patiently answering my questions I'm not a big techie and I will probably spend days trying to figure out the email app on the g1 without the info I get here in AC. so glad I found this site!!!!
 
I exported my contacts from my prfoessional account to my personal, started using Google Calendar all in anticipation.

Only one account syncs contacts, etc.

You can display more than one calendar (though technically it is just the one calendar and it has a subscription to the other one).

The other email you will have to check as a POP3 in the other mail reader.
 
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