How to switch between email accounts?

[Anonymous]

I have a corp sync email account and a 'regular' IMAP email account setup on my phone (I also have a gmail account setup as well, but that's not really material).

When I hit the 'email' application, it shows me ONE of the mail accounts (whichever one is set as "Default email account" in email settings). However, I know both are working in the background because I get notifications of emails in both accounts.

So, how do I switch between email accounts (preferably w/o having to change my default email account in settings)? For example, I want to initiate an email on my corp sync account when my IMAP account is set as the default. How would I go about that?

Thanks,

- James

[Geoffrey Winkworth]

If you look next to where it says, "Inbox," just below the notification bar, you should see your default email account listed. If you click that, you should get a drop down showing the rest.

[Anonymous]

Geoffrey,

Thanks for the quick reply.

I'm not able to switch as you describe. Let me be more clear in case we are talking about different apps / etc.

I go to home | O menu | email

At the very top of the screen is the phone nav bar [AT&T, notification icons, BT, WiFi, silent indicator, H+ indicator, signal strength, battery level, time].

The top email application bar has a refresh icon (two arrows in a circle), the name of my default email account: inbox (# messages), and a green plus. Something like this (please excuse the crude ASCII graphics):

() atrixforums.com: inbox (8) +

If I read your message correctly, you want me to click on the provider name ("atrixforums.com: inbox (8)" in my example above). When I do that, I get a list of the available folders within that particular account (inbox, trash, outbox, sent items, drafts, etc.). Long clicking on this same place does nothing different.

Obviously I'm missing something.

Thanks,

- James

P.S. I've found sort of a workaround for the original problem (not being able to switch email providers). If you open the "messaging" application instead of the "email" application (Home | O menu | messaging) you can see all of your email providers / accounts. If you click on one of them, you can go to that inbox. To get to a different one you have to 'return' out of the main inbox view for that provider and go back to the 'messaging' application.

[Geoffrey Winkworth]

Yeah, we were talking two different animals. Once I went in and added something other than Yahoo/Gmail, I saw the same behavior you were seeing.

[tariq]

If you go to the "Messaging" app (one with a plain white closed envelope) which I initially thought was only for text messages, that app has all your accounts in one place, including:

Universal Inbox
Text Messaging
Gmail
Yahoo! Mail
Corporate email
and more from social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn.

Very cool!!!! I love Atrix!

[das8nt]

If you go to the "Messaging" app (one with a plain white closed envelope) which I initially thought was only for text messages, that app has all your accounts in one place, including:

Universal Inbox
Text Messaging
Gmail
Yahoo! Mail
Corporate email
and more from social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn.

Very cool!!!! I love Atrix!

Welcome to the forums, tariq!

Good tip! Now, if they would only add an easy way for the Universal Inbox to be placed directly on a home screen with the default launcher... it's actually quite useful for most.