Keeping gmail alias account settings separate

Not sure if it will work for you but try to log into both and on the one use https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1 and on the other https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2

Shaun - Unfortunately, they both redirected to https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0.

And if you use incognito/private browsing for one/both

But isn't that also a setting, which would then carry over?  This problem appears to be the flip side of Chrome's strength with synchronization.

Use https://inbox.google.com  sign in with your email account  then Click on the Mail Icon on far right from search bar to add in the alias.

 You can then just click between the 2 accounts.

Wes - I was looking forward to testing out your approach.  Unfortunately I got this error message: "Your administrator has disabled Inbox for your domain."

I have 2 Gmail accounts and am able to do what I think you need. What I do is this;

1. Make sure you're completely logged out of all your Gmail accounts in all your browsers
2. Open an Incognito browser window in Chrome to log into one Gmail account
3. Open a New Private Window in Firefox and log into your other Gmail account
4. Now just maximize each browser as needed

Unless I've misunderstood your question or scenario, the above does work for me. The "Alias" you describe doesn't make a lot of sense to me as I don't use aliases on Gmail so not sure if that solution will work for you too. Hope it does.

Regards, Andrew

Just did some research on Gmail Alias's so I don't think my above suggestion will work. There's a couple of suggestions I found on StackExchange you may like to consider. Hope it's not you that asked the question though :)

Source: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/120145/how-to-keep-gmail-alias-account-settings-separate

use Outlook or Thunderbird for one of the addresses and then use the browser for the other.

how about using labels to separate them into two folders. or you can create a new account and set up to messages be automatically re-send to an alt account - this way you can have both open in one browser

My own idea along the lines above would be to use something like Outlook and download your Gmail account using POP, then use Outlook's rules to separate the two alias's as they come in. Would that be an idea that could help you out? It would mean working in Outlook (or your own favorite email client) rather than on the Gmail web interface though.

The following page "may" also help in turning the alias into a real Gmail account;

https://support.google.com/a/answer/1710338?hl=en

Hope some of those ideas help.

Regards, Andrew

Alias can mean different things to different people and applications. The actual definition does not matter, what you are doing and calling an alias does.

By alias, are you creating another "Send As" email account? https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en If that is the case, that just means you can send as the other account.  But you still have log in to the main gmail account. Therefore, it will not matter what browser you are using because it is all the same account.

Otherwise, when I think of an email alias, that means you can have main@example.com and alias@example.com where any mail at alias@example.com goes to main.com but can not be used to send.  If you are using GSuite, can set up an alias similar to this. https://support.google.com/a/answer/33327?hl=en

Let's get some details.  Are you using a free gmail account (@gmail.com) or GSuite (@mydomain.com).  What are you referring to when you say allias?  Send as or alternate email that can receive and forward to the main?

Next, you are asking about, ' keeping things nicely compartmentalized'.  Can you define what your expectation are for this? Again, knowing the type of alias you are talking about will help. If you have two incoming emails, the best thing is to use Labels https://support.google.com/mail/answer/118708?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform=Desktop. For gmail this is similar to using folders for an imap account.  This can be done by creating rules for your incoming mail.

Andrew: that was indeed me posting at SE.

Scott: GSuite.  Here are the instructions I was given for set-up:

For those users that need to reply from that domain, they just have to this:
 - Go to Settings (in the little gear thing menu in upper right) (in your demanddrive gmail)
 - Go to Accounts and Import
 - Under Send mail as, add the other SolarWindsUS.com email address with their same username
 - Check the button Reply from the same address the message was sent to

I suspect they instructed us to set it up as an alias in order to save money.

Goal for compartmentalization: very simple.  I need email to be available in two places, perhaps different browsers.

• In Browser A: outgoing messages are sent from primary address.
• In Browser B: outgoing messages are set from secondary (alias) address.

That is, I don't want to have to remember to check the dropdown to see if the email is going out as the correct persona.

What you want to do then is add labels.

1) Go to your gear an get to settings.

2) Go to Filters and Blocked Addresses.

3) Create New Filter and select the "From" you want to apply the label to.

4)  Click the Create Filter button.

5) On the next screen tick the box, "Apply The Label". Here you can select an existing label or create a new one on the fly.

Repeat this for the other "From" account.

You can manage the labels you create by going back to setting and this time go to the Labels tab.

Now you can open your 2nd browser tab in the same browser (because you are already logged into your account).  On the left column, select the filter you want to view mail for and do the same in the other tab.

At this point, you are only seeing mail from the "Sent". If you are also receiving email from both accounts, you will want to create a new filter for incoming mail where you will specify the To field using the same email accounts and labels.

The key is you are only using one Google account so the method I suggest is getting to about the same thing you were trying but in a different manner. You will not be able to sign into two different browsers or tabs and see different accounts because an alias is just that, an alias for an account you already have.