in accordance with the teachings described herein , systems and methods are provided for integrating a plurality of electronic mail accounts . a plurality of email services may be used to send and receive electronic messages over a wide area network , one of the email services being a preferred email service and another of the email services being a secondary email service . an email integration service may be used that is coupled to the wide area network and that is independent of the plurality of email services . the email integration service may be operable to receive account information regarding the preferred email service and the secondary email service and use the account information to configure a means for forwarding electronic messages from the preferred email service to the secondary email service .