In GMail, can I auto-forward emails between two accounts so I can view all my mail on both?

Question

I realize this is probably a pretty uninformed question, but I'm not really sure how to search for it. My apologies if this is a duplicate or whatever. I don't use this site a lot, I'm a bit frustrated, and just want to get this done.

My college forces me to use two Gmail accounts. If I set up auto-forwarding for both accounts so I can look at all my e-mail regardless of which I'm logged into, will it cause an infinite auto-forward loop? My college forces me to use multiple email accounts and its incredibly annoying to me. Ideally, I'd like to be able to look at all my email from both accounts. I'm sick of having to switch between them especially since the way its set up with my college causes ridiculous glitches at times.

I already have email forwarding to one of my accounts, but I'm worried that if I try to do it for both it could cause a problem e.g.:

*On account 1, I receive email "A"

*Receiving email on account 1 triggers auto-forward

*On account 2, I receive "fwd:A"

*Receiving email on account 2 triggers auto-forward

*On account 1, I receive email "fwd:fwd:A"

*Receiving email on account 2 triggers auto-forward

etc.... I would try it myself, but you know, I'd rather not break my email.

[Edit 2: The rest is anxious, frustrated rambling over-explanation. Save yourself a headache; cease reading here and don't look at the struck-out text below]

That's my main question and now I've got a headache from thinking about forwarded forwarding so I'll be quick in adding also that I just generally want to know how auto-forward treat forwarded and auto-forwarded messages. Anyone know?

Edit: I would create a third account or just use my main account, but the problem is there are times (frequent, too) where I have to be logged into either one for a whole slew of different reasons not even just related to email.

Answer 1

The simple solution is to use filters. Turn off google's automatic forwarding, then set up a filter rule that will forward messages with the current account's email address in the to field to your other email address. The forwarded messages should keep their original to: address, and thus will not trigger the forwarding filter when they reach the other account. Do the same on the other account.