# Email Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 28, 2000, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-question/20757 "2000-05-28T22:17:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2000, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-question/20757/1 "2000-05-28T22:17:24Z")
Does anyone know of a service that lets you forward mail FROM several different addresses TO one account, (keyword here:) FOR FREE??? Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![X-files](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/76d3ee/32.png) [@X-files](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X-files)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2000, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-question/20757/2 "2000-05-29T00:50:46Z")
AltaVista ---
**Author:** ![X-files](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/76d3ee/32.png) [@X-files](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X-files)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2000, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-question/20757/3 "2000-05-29T00:56:00Z")
Here’s the link. [http://altavista.iname.com/member/login.page](http://altavista.iname.com/member/login.page) I’m not exactly sure, but you may have to make the “target” of your forwarding another brand, such as Hotmail or Yahoo mail. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2000, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-question/20757/4 "2000-05-29T04:03:59Z")
Yahoo, Hotmail, and Altavista let you _read_ e-mail from several accounts, but you have to set them up and check them separately, using POP. That may be what you have in mind, but I don’t know of any service that forwards mail from several accounts. I’d doubt it exists, since the forwarding would have to come from the individual accounts themselves. Still, if what you want to do is read several accounts from one location, than most of the free e-mail services give yoiu that capabilities. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2000, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-question/20757/5 "2000-05-29T15:59:59Z")
My ISP does it for nothing for an unlimited number of email address, if you have a website. Im not very clear on the question. Let’s say you have a web site [purple.com](http://purple.com). You could use any name you want at any time & it would all come to your main email box [that you specify]. I can create new names anytime with no setup. I could give: [dork@purple.com](mailto:dork@purple.com) [Ineedtoseeyou@purple.com](mailto:Ineedtoseeyou@purple.com) [straightdope@purple.com](mailto:straightdope@purple.com) they all are sent to one box. fun. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2000, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-question/20757/6 "2000-05-30T02:01:56Z")
Sounds more like a “General Questions” question to me, so off we gooooooo! ---
**Author:** ![Abe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@Abe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2000, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-question/20757/7 "2000-05-30T02:42:03Z")
check out [http://www.graffiti.net](http://www.graffiti.net) I think that’s what you are looking for: an auto-forward feature. These guys are not commercial so you get value you don’t find at the super-portals. The entire service is free, from the calendars to the greeting cards to the web hosting. ---
**Author:** ![X-files](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/76d3ee/32.png) [@X-files](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X-files)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2000, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-question/20757/8 "2000-05-31T02:48:43Z")
There are lots of services that do this. One was the link I gave above your post to AltaVista Abe’s [Graffitti.net](http://Graffitti.net) also has the forwarding option. One advantage to AltaVista is that they have more domain names to chose from, presumably from merger wars. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2000, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-question/20757/9 "2000-05-31T03:30:07Z")
OK, I signed up for Graffiti Mail, but that’s not EXACTLY what I was looking for. **RealityChuck** was right, I want a bunch of different email addresses (Yahoo, WLS-AM, etc.) all forwarded to one particular account. Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2000, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-question/20757/10 "2000-05-31T04:14:34Z")
I don’t think that any of the free email providers offer forwarding. Many of them offer the ability to retrieve mail from POP accounts, though. And Yahoo (at least) does offer POP access to your Yahoo account. So it might be possible to get Hotmail to retrieve Yahoo mail as if it were a standard POP account. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2000, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-question/20757/11 "2000-05-31T13:00:27Z")
I don’t know of any free e-mail providers that offer an automatic forwarding option. It seems unlikely you’ll find one, since they want you to visit your site. And for it to work, you’d have to have _all_ your e-mail addresses at providers that do provide that sort of option. Best bet is to find one that can check multiple POP addresses and do it from there.