Background:
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I have one Gmail account and two Google Apps e-mail accounts that I use on a regular basis:
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<my.name@gmail.com>
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<myaddress@teaching-job.edu>
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<my.name@consulting-job.com>
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On my personal computer, all three accounts are kept "signed in" concurrently so that I can access any of the three inboxes at any time without having to log in repeatedly.
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If I browse to https://mail.google.com/a/teaching-job.edu/ or https://mail.teaching-job.edu/, Gmail takes me directly to the inbox for <myaddress@teaching-job.edu>.
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If I browse to https://mail.google.com/a/consulting-job.com/ or https://mail.consulting-job.com/, Gmail takes me directly to the inbox for <my.name@consulting-job.com>
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If I browse to https://mail.google.com/ or https://www.gmail.com/, Gmail does not take me directly to the inbox for <my.name@gmail.com>. Instead, it takes me to one of my Google Apps accounts.
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Browsing to https://mail.google.com/a/gmail.com/ yields an error: "Sorry, you've reached a login page for a domain that isn't using Google Apps."
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Question:
- Assuming that I am signed into all three accounts concurrently, is there a URL that will always bring me directly to the inbox for <my.name@gmail.com>, even if I have used one of the other accounts more recently?
Best Answer
It turns out that when using multiple sign-in, the first account that one signs into is forevermore the "default account" for that browser session. This applies to all Google Apps features: not just logins to https://mail.google.com/, but also things like OpenID sign-ins.
The solution was simply to sign out, log into the gmail.com account first, and then log into the Google Apps accounts.