Help Multiple Accounts Issue?

[Agrajag]

I have two e-mail accounts I like to manage and did so on my Droid with ease. One is my main Google/Gmail account.

The other is my work e-mail. This also happens to be hosted on a Gmail server (we use a business Gmail account at work).

On the Droid I would go into Gmail and set up a second account and give it the credentials for logging into my work e-mail and it would just work. I would get One or two M icons in the notification bar depending on which account or accounts got a new message.

Now I'm getting that but I'm also getting an unwanted by-product also. On this phone every update for an app gives me a update notification that's duplicated with one for each mail address.

What did I goof up? I didn't want a distinct full account set up, just monitoring of both e-mail accounts.

 

[Martimus]

Did you set up one or both accounts in the GMail app?

It might be prudent to create the other GMail account in the Email app...

 

[Agrajag]

I've tried it numerous ways and nothing matches what I had. Previously I would launch the Gmail app and under Accounts I could easily switch between the accounts (home and work) with ease using the same interface.

Now, if I set up as a Google account (wasn't an option on the old Droid) then I get the unified interface but it also seems to think this is some sort of main Google account and thus I get the unwanted side-effect I mentioned.

If I go into Gmail and click Accounts I see just the one home account. I can then click Add Account and I get this new menu I never saw before with all sorts of different types. Silly me, I then tried "Email Accounts" and picked Gmail and that, I thought, would work but it doesn't! Instead of launching in Gmail, Gmail still doesn't see the account and I then have to access all of that e-mail from the Email app that isn't Gmail and thus has a totally different look, feel and features!

WTH?!?! heheheh