tinyurl.com/tbrky -> www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/09/uh-oh-gmail-just-got-perfect/
Mail Fetcher allows users to access non-Gmail email accounts from within the Gmail interface. Gmail will now work in a very similar way as Outlook does on the PC desktop.
It was the one feature that Gmail lacked that, in my opinion, kept it from being the perfect webmail application. They offer free POP access to Gmail from other email applications like Outlook (Yahoo and Microsoft charge for that). They offer access to other email accounts within Gmail (only Yahoo offers that).
mobile client is killer (although not yet available for most phones). And only Gmail allows tagging of emails for categorization under multiple topics (I just wish it was a quicker feature). I am seriously considering switching from using my desktop email client to Gmail. Since I work from multiple computers, using web mail eliminates the syncing problem.
December 9th, 2006 at 9:07 am Wait Mike, Google says: Leave a copy of retrieved messages on the server. If you'll only be accessing your email through your Gmail account, leave this unchecked. If you'd like to be able to access your mail directly from that account, or if you're accessing it through any other accounts or devices, click to select this option. If they allow IMAP accounts, I would think that would allow you to sync your desktop client, no?
December 9th, 2006 at 9:08 am Will someone please explain this to me because I've been using this similar feature for almost one year now. I use POP forwarding from my alternate email address and can get emails and reply to emails directly in Gmail (there is a drop-down menu so I can choose the account that I am replying from).
December 9th, 2006 at 9:09 am I've been waiting for this exact service. Many people maintain Gmail accounts as secondary email addresses, but will now consider making Gmail their primary app for email.
December 9th, 2006 at 9:14 am DigitalJournal - this is different than simple forwarding. If you need to keep your work and personal email separate, for example, simply forwarding work email to your gmail account is not a good solution. This new feature allows users to keep these accounts completely separate.
December 9th, 2006 at 9:19 am Thanks for the feedback Michael, but forgive my ignorance as I'm still a bit confused. How does it keep them separate -- do you now have separate inboxes for each email address?
December 9th, 2006 at 9:21 am DJ - actually, I don't know the answer to that question. The information in the links doesn't say, and the feature is not yet enabled on my gmail account. I certainy hope that they create separate inboxes for each email account, or at least offer it as an option. But even if they don't, when you respond to an email, the from address will be whatever email address you are using at that time, whereas with forwarding it would always be from gmail.
December 9th, 2006 at 9:23 am DigitalJournal, This feature *retrieves* mail from the other account, so you don't have to forward it from there. This is good since some accounts don't support forwarding.
December 9th, 2006 at 9:24 am Michael - I think what DigitalJournal was referring to is Gmail's ability to "spoof" a sent message as if it was coming from another address. forwarded to Gmail, and then reply to the message AS IF you were sending it from the other account. What you couldn't do with that setup, though, was manage the inbox of the secondary account. It would just continue to fill if you didn't also check it independently. Anyway, I'm feeling *meh* on all of this until Gmail starts offering IMAP support.
You can even set it up to respond from whatever email address the original message was sent to. All I did to get this feature working was go into account settings and click "Add account" and type my other email addresses. It sends a verification out to ensure you have access to those accounts, you confirm and bang -- you can receive and reply to emails from many different sources.
December 9th, 2006 at 9:33 am I got really excited about this because it may fix the "We're Yahoo and Hotmail so we don't want to allow you forward," issue. Since you can't forward from some other web clients without paying, I think Gmail may be saying that they can just get your email from them without having to the other client to forward anything.
December 9th, 2006 at 9:34 am I currently forward my GMail to Y! mail to appear in GMail so that I have all my email in one place with GMail as my interface. However Yahoo's version of fetcher does not connect to GMail either. You can use GMail forwarding but you are still stuck with the Y! mail at the moment, still no way to switch to GMail while still ensuring your Y!
December 9th, 2006 at 9:43 am GMAIL will be perfect when it makes the excellent mobile mail client available on the desktop which should help kill off outlook express!
December 9th, 2006 at 9:51 am Michael, ok this feature is a nice one but "perfect"? hmm i think gmail is still some miles away from perfect. I didn't test PGP Support and stuff as i use gmail only for some little cases.
December 9th, 2006 at 9:51 am I'm glad Google's added this feature, it's very cool and I'm excited that it will be easier for people to use. I am with Digital Journal though, I switched all but one of my email addresses to auto forward and have Gmail respond with the appropriate address. I can't wait to have it enabled on my account, I may finally be able to get that stupid assigned school email account to work. Then again, odds are they don't even have POP access in the first place. So slightly off topic, but does anyone know how to make GMail put your signature above the quoted email when you reply to a message? It sucks to have it show up below what people rarely reed.
December 9th, 2006 at 9:59 am This is a very very cool feature. I have to use a desktop client here because my school cuts out the internet at 11 pm on most nights, but if I had constant internet this would be tempting. There is still the issue of my wanting always-there emails regardless of internet access, so I'm still waiting for the gmail desktop component. I also wish gmail mobile would work well on my Q Currently, though, I am using Gmail for my domain hosting since Dreamhost's spamassasin, even with tweaking, doesn't come close. Annoyingly, however, Gmail's POP fuzziness means that I have to have multiple forwarded accounts in order to be able to POP and have new messages appear for each device' that is checking-phone, desktop, etc. I tried to use Outlook 2007 a few months ago for my mail but it just was nowhere near as fast or reliable as Tbird-it started pulling down mail messages 5x over because of its insecurities with itself, I suppose.
December 9th, 2006 at 10:06 am This new feature doesn't sound too different from what Gmail's been doing for awhile. For a long time I've been able to receive mail from other accounts, AND send email as that account from Gmail. With regards to the organization of inboxes, I do know that you can set up a Filter on the other email address, so that anything sent to that address is tied to the filter. Then you could also have that mail automatically bypass your main inbox, in essence creating a separate inbox, just for that email account.
December 9th, 2006 at 10:18 am I'm with all the people not seeing the big deal with this, because I've been receiving and sending email from all of my 7 accounts via Gmail for at least a year now.
December 9th, 2006 at 10:20 am I've also been doing something similar, forwarding my work mail to my gmail account. The problem with this that they still haven't resolved is if you have multiple accounts', you should be able to have multiple signatures as well. Currently, you can only have one signature, so if I set it up as my work' signature, I have to delete it and manually enter a different one when sending personal e-mails, even though I choose my personal address instead of my work address as the from'.
December 9th, 2006 at 11:13 am i thought of making a site like that enables you to enter all your email accounts into one site that controls everything, as you know must of us have more then one email.. if they keep it that way they might ge...
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