Mail Collector: One inbox, multiple email accounts
Ever wondered if there is an alternative to the usual dance of switching between multiple email accounts to keep track of your correspondence? Use mail.com’s Mail Collector to read all your emails in one place!
By Alyssa SchmittWith all your emails in one place, you’ll be smiling, too!
Manage multiple email accounts from one place – with Mail Collector!
How many email accounts do you have? Two? Even more? If you answered “More!” you are not alone. Nowadays it’s quite common to have multiple email addresses, e.g., for business correspondence, personal messages, or a spam address. But despite the advantages, this can make it harder to stay on top of your emails.
Now for the good news: if you have a mail.com email account, having multiple accounts doesn't necessarily mean more work – thanks to our new and improved Mail Collector. It can collect messages from many different email providers, including Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud, AOL, GMX, and more!
What is Mail Collector?
The name actually says it all: it collectsyour mail from up to 10 other accounts, then places the emails in your main mail.com inbox or sorts them into dedicated folders. So, with Mail Collector, you can use the same email for multiple accounts – once it is set up, your mail.com account can automatically retrieve messages from third-party accounts (like Gmail).
How does Mail Collector work?
Once you have activated the mail.com Mail Collector for one of your other email accounts, it uses the IMAP standard protocol to retrieve messages. The original emails are not deleted from the inbox of the other account, so nothing will be missing if you choose to check your emails there instead.
Are you looking to copy all the old emails from your other inbox, or regularly check for new incoming messages? The good news is that Mail Collector can do either – or both:
Copying all the existing emails in your other inbox is particularly useful if you have just changed email providers and want to move your emails to mail.com without the hassle of manually forwarding them.
Only fetching new emails is great if you are keeping the old account and simply want the convenience of reading emails in one place going forward.
You also have the option of activating both functions.
How to set up Mail Collector
You can set up Mail Collector for the email account of your choice by following these simple steps:
Log in to your mail.com account in a web browser
In the left menu of the E-mail tab, click Add email account
Alternatively, click Settings > Mail Collector
Click Add an email account
In the dropdown menu, select the email provider of the other account
Enter the address and password of the email account you would like to check.
Select how you would like your emails to be collected (new emails, old emails, or both)
Choose where you want the emails to be placed (in your mail.com inbox or a dedicated folder)
Click Activate Mail Collector
Each email account you have added will appear on the Mail Collector page along with its current status.
Click here to set up Mail Collector for your external email account
What if Mail Collector doesn’t work?
Please keep in mind that Mail Collector uses the IMAP protocol – so if the other email account does not allow IMAP or it is deactivated by default, setup will not work. For more information and troubleshooting suggestions, please visit our help page: My active Mail Collector does not fetch emails
Good to know: Managing multiple mail.com accounts
Because IMAP is a Premium feature at mail.com, you can only use the Mail Collector to collect messages from a mail.com Premium account. However, there are other options for managing multiple free mail.com addresses. For example, you can set up and use as many as nine alias addresses in a single account. In addition, you can add multiple free mail.com email accounts in our mobile app.
More information about using multiple email accounts with Mail Collector can be found on our Mail Collector help pages.
We hope you enjoy using your mail.com Mail Collector to view multiple email accounts in one inbox! We would love to hear your feedback below!
This article first appeared on Sept. 27, 2021, and was updated on June 9, 2025.
