Since we now have our hotmail (or yahoo or any other account that allows this) account added  to our gmail account, every time we log into gmail we get our gmail and the new messages from the other account. In my case, I get my gmail and all of the messages from two other hotmail accounts.

My inbox only shows my gmail, however. All messages from the other accounts are still there but they are ARCHIVED, or saved in the general folder. How do I see them? Well, there are two ways.

On the left side of your gmail page, under Inbox there is Sent Mail then Drafts then All Mail. All Mail is the toggle that will show you All of your mail, including any other accounts you receive mail from and your gmail. If you select Inbox, you just get the gmail or any mail that you have selected to go to your inbox. If, as I showed you last time, you selected Archive Incoming Mail, then all of your mail from any other account goes into the All box.

Now the cleaning up part. How do you get to see JUST the email from one of the other accounts? Look on the left side of the main page and click on the email address that you would like to see the mail from. This is new, by the way. Yesterday, July 2 of 2009, you had to Manage Labels to see the email from one account. Today, the account is showing on the left side. Click on it and you will get just the email from the one account. Simple and efficient.

There are other ways to organize gmail and I’l be writing about these in future entries. Stay tuned here for a piece about Gmaildrive, an amazing piece of software that makes better use of your gmail account.