Gmail's POP3 Account Import Limit is 5 - Any Way to Pull More than 5?

Question

I've hit the limit with Gmail's POP3 account import. I'm pulling email from 5 other accounts (non-Gmail) into a single Gmail inbox, but cannot add any more. I do not want to forward email from more accounts into that inbox (for various reasons).

Is there any way around this? I tried to pull Gmail account "B" into Gmail account "A" via POP3, but the system didn't like that. If it had worked, I could have used that second account for 5 additional emails.

I guess I'm looking for a "POP3 account aggregator" that can somehow push/pull everything from more than 5 accounts into a single Gmail inbox.

Anyone else bump into this problem and find a solution?

Answer 1

You should:

• create a new gmail account, let's call it gmail2;
• consolidate one of the existing email account in gmail2 (i.e. move it there, to have a free "consolidation" slot);
• consolidate this gmail2 account within the main one (gmail1), using the free slot you just created;
• add up to 4 more consolidated email accounts to gmail2, using the remaining 4 spare slots within gmail2. The one you freed up from gmail1 will be the first of the new set, that again might have a total of 5 max.

This way you get up to 9 consolidated accounts --four in your gmail1 plus the gmail2, then 5 coming inside gmail2-- inside your gmail1 or main account. You could repeat this using other gmail accounts, as far as I know, but have no idea when gmail might get nervous about it. You might receive emails slightly slower from the accounts consolidated from gmail2, in case that matters to you. It is a guess, but most likely consolidation happens with a certain delay, and you would be doubling it for the second tier.

Hope that helps!