# Question about Google or Yahoo email accounts
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-google-or-yahoo-email-accounts/744176
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [January 25, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-google-or-yahoo-email-accounts/744176 "2016-01-25T14:30:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-google-or-yahoo-email-accounts/744176/1 "2016-01-25T14:30:15Z")
I have a Google email account, as well as a Yahoo account. I rarely use the Yahoo account.
I find I need a new email address to be associated with an organization where I hold an office.
Is Gmail going to allow me to set up an additional email account using the same name etc. as my existing account? How about Yahoo?
An issues with doing so?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2016, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-google-or-yahoo-email-accounts/744176/2 "2016-01-25T14:52:00Z")
You cannot have two accounts with the name GaryM@gmail or @yahoo.com.
But, you can have any number of accounts - with different names - on either service.
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### Author:  [@TwoCarrotSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoCarrotSnowman)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2016, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-google-or-yahoo-email-accounts/744176/3 "2016-01-25T15:10:08Z")
I’m not 100% clear on what you are trying to do here. Are you saying that you want a new email address that would be something like **your\_name@the\_organisation\_in\_question.com?** If so, it would be up to the organisation to set you up with an address on their domain; you can’t set up a Gmail account with a non Gmail domain name as far as I know.
However, what you can do is use the Gmail web client (or mobile apps) to access email from other services as well, as long as they have POP3 access. In fact, you can use the Gmail account you already have and add the new organisation’s email account to your inbox - and therefore manage all your email in one place. You’ll still need the organisation in question to set you up with an email address, though.
If that’s what you’re after, [this is how you do it.](https://support.google.com/mail/answer/21289?hl=en)
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### Author:  [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-google-or-yahoo-email-accounts/744176/4 "2016-01-25T15:13:57Z")
I want to set up a Gmail account such as “[officeheld@gmail.com](mailto:officeheld@gmail.com)”. But I already have an account such as “[GaryM@Gmail.com](mailto:GaryM@Gmail.com)”.
Will they allow me both accounts when I enter my real name etc. on the setup screen?
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### Author:  [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2016, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-google-or-yahoo-email-accounts/744176/5 "2016-01-25T15:15:39Z")
I’ll add that their web person set up a forwarding account, but it’s not working as either I get nothing or it go’s into my spam folder. I set a filter to keep it in my inbox, but it’s not always working.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2016, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-google-or-yahoo-email-accounts/744176/6 "2016-01-25T15:16:33Z")
> [@GaryM](#):
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> Will they allow me both accounts when I enter my real name etc. on the setup screen?
Yes. They’ll even allow you to merge the mailboxes for the two accounts, which will probably be necessary anyway since otherwise you’ll have to login each time you want to look at the other mailbox.
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### Author:  [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2016, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-google-or-yahoo-email-accounts/744176/7 "2016-01-25T15:23:05Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> Yes. They’ll even allow you to merge the mailboxes for the two accounts, which will probably be necessary anyway since otherwise you’ll have to login each time you want to look at the other mailbox.
Excellent! Thank you.
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-google-or-yahoo-email-accounts/744176/8 "2016-01-25T15:29:01Z")
You could use the “+” trick: Gmail will ignore anything between the “+” and the “@,” so if your current Gmail account is [GaryM@gmail.com](mailto:GaryM@gmail.com), give your business contacts the address [GaryM+officeheld@gmail.com](mailto:GaryM+officeheld@gmail.com), then create a filter so anything addressed to [GaryM+officeheld@gmail.com](mailto:GaryM+officeheld@gmail.com) goes into a separate folder (well, label; Gmail doesn’t really have “folders”).
Alternatively, Gmail ignores dots, so you could give out the address [Gary.M@gmail.com](mailto:Gary.M@gmail.com), then filter for that.