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- CharlesDarwin, on 10/12/2007, -15/+37WHO CARES IT HAS GMAIL IN THE TITLE!!!1!!!!!~!
- davidirock, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17lol, this is so funny. Just one quick question, who did not know that that would work. "Forward your email to another account so you can check it there, then change the sent from line to where the email was forwarded from!" Seriously, this is really sad. I honestly thought this was going to be something that would help people who can't just go to a webmail service and ask them to send it to gmail. Like maybe that person found a way to check pop 3 accounts from gmail or SOMETHING that is revolutionary.
- astrosmash, on 10/12/2007, -1/+111. Complaining about ads in GMail is ridiculous. How could GMail's ads be any less obtrusive or more relevant than they are now?
2. The advantage of Web-based email is so that you have access to your account from anywhere, and the advantage of GMail is their terrific web interface. If you're going to throw both of those away then what's the point of using GMail at all?
I too use Mail.app with GMail POP3/SMTP, but for the exact opposite reason. GMail is my primary email interface, used from multiple machines at home, school, and work, and I also forward my other school and home accounts to my GMail account.
I use Mail.app with GMail POP3 on my iBook to keep a local archive of my entire Gmail account. This allows the following:
- I have a local backup of all my email.
- I can have access to my archived Gmail offline, if needed.
- I can use Spotlight to search my Gmail account.
This gives me universal web access as well as local, off-line access to all of my email, and my email situation has never been better. - zephc, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12What i really like is their POP/SMTP services, so I just use Mail.app instead of having to use a web interface and look at ads.
- StarWarsFan, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11This is really useful. I've got five different Gmail accounts, but I can check them all at once with mail forwarding.
- astrosmash, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8They're talking about real email accounts, e.g. home, school, and work accounts. GMail can't help you If you are still using Hotmail in this day and age.
The only solution to your Hotmail problem is to stop using Hotmail. - TheBurt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10alex
- khan8037, on 10/12/2007, -10/+15I don't know what this guy is talking about. Most of the major webmail providers don't allow you to forward your mail to other mail boxes. Some offer this as functionality that you have to pay for. I agree it would work if you had your own mail servers, but then you don't really have any space limitations do you becuase they are YOUR mail servers and it makes no sense to forward stuff to google.
- Satertek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The mail is only forwarded to GMail, you can still check your mail in all the seperate locations if you need to.
- luchid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Thank Microsoft for trying to keep you locked in... as usual...
- stark23x, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"Most of the major webmail providers don't allow you to forward your mail to other mail boxes."
What major webmail providers *don't* allow forwarding? I have Yahoo and an MSN account, and they both allow it. All my mail is forwarded to Gmail. I have like 15 scattered webmail accounts collected over the last ten years, and they *all* forward.
Which services don't allow it? - Otto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Wow. Mail Forwarding. Big shocker there.
If you have your own domain, sign up for the GMail for your domain. Much nicer than simple forwarding and such. - Dust3r, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7heh, they were talking about this in one of the diggnation episodes... im supprised nobody has put it up untill now.
- phpirate, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8Yeah I use gmail to integrate several of my business email accounts so that I only check one inbox.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3oh, i agree completely, DigeratiPrime. My entire inbox at hotmail is full of junkmail. Every time i log into MSN messenger, it tells me "you have 567 unread emails" and the number keeps rising. On top of that, it takes so long to load in the web browser, i'm scared to log in with anything other IE, hotmail "live", isn't much better and is just a copy of gmail.
basically, the moral of the story is that Gmail is awesome, Hotmail sucks, and we have all been touched by the spaghetti monster's noodly appendage :D - cmeador, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I can't believe someone actually sat down and wrote an article about forwarding email to an aggregate account.
Must be a slow news day. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6wait.... does Hotmail not have any ***** forwarding? WTF? *****
did i miss it? anybody see it somewhere? - slantyeyed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Use the CustomizeGoogle extension for Firefox . . . no more ads
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -1/+4This is probably the most handy HOWTO I've ever come across. The fact that it's so simple makes me feel kind of stupid, but it is very useful! Now to set up some rules so I only get specific e-mails from the other accounts. Bravo!
- DigeratiPrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3True. I have all my email forwarded to my primary gmail account, except my old hotmail address. This is probably a mixed blessing since 99.5% of the email that goes to my old hotmail account is spam. I still sign in with IE once every few months to check on it since WLM doesn't like Firefox. Stupid MS.
I also have a webmail account from an ISP that I cannot figure out how to forward the mail from. I contacted the admin and he explained I need to sign into PINE in order to forward it and send a file that contains the address I want the email forwarded to with the file name .forward . I haven't figured this out, if anyone can explain it better I would greatly appreciate it. - pseudojd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2you need to put a file names .forward in you root on his unix server. all that needs to be in the file is the address you want to send to.
- TKDWILSON, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yahoo does not offer it for free. Don't know about MSN.
Eric Wilson - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why the ***** would spamcop block gmail?
- ardent11, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I knew this, but, does hotmail allow this? And if it does, will your account get suspended, because, if you don't log into your account after a while they suspend your account right? Well if you keep forwarding your mail to g-mail checking it there and such, you're not signing into hotmail, and yeah. ***** i just read that over and it's so confusing (i woke up 5 minutes ago)
- danielrobinson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I, for one, welcome our new Google overlords.
- djdole, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I agree. But then again, it IS the weekend.
But I'd take a 'slow news day' over a 'falling building news day', any-day. :-\ - boogachamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I am pretty sure hotmail does not let you, maybe if you pay for it.
- yahoofrom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1BTW, I've heard the Send-As feature has kinda bug. still true?
- djdole, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've had this setup for about 4 to 5 months now, forwarding my old university email, and my gmail managed domain email there as well.
I have to say, it's VERY handy, and I'd recommend it since gmail's spam filtering rocks. The university's built-in filtering will miss a ton of crap, but gmail pretty much catches all that slip through. ^_^
Also, Gmail's 'conversation' like message sorting makes reading list emails VERY easy. - ojk007, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2yeah ive been doin it for a while now, tis pretty handy
- lament, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1not with Gmail you haven't.
- cphuntington97, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Unfortunately, gmail is blocked by spamcop. Makes gmail a bit hard to communicate with :-(
- zeldafan, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8I use gmail as my personal e-mail.
But I use admin@mydomain.com and webmaster@mydomain.com and things like that for my site business. I foward these to gmail so I don't have to keep checking different things.
So yeh, it does make sense to foward to google.
(Plus I can check from anywhere and not need to use thunderbird) - cybernezumi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've been doing this for awhile, but for different reasons -- backups and redundancy. I'm got my domain's email forwarded to gmail for backup, while still using Mail.app to read it from my host's server. When I send mail, I send it using the "Send mail as" with gmail's SMTP server. This way everything gets backed up on gmail, I have a copy on my PowerBook, and there's a short-term copy of incoming mail on my mail server. I've got redundant access to my mail online through gmail & my host and offline with my computer.
- splintax, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I'm in a similar situation. splintax at gmail is a fairly unprofessional email address, IMO, but I forward firstname@isp.com, firstname@domain.com, splintax@domain.com, and work email addresses to Gmail and use the Send As feature. It's very useful.
Kinda old news, though. - briansorders, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2that "send from" feature is sweet, never knew about it ... nice link
- cphuntington97, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's simple - gmail gives it's server's IP as the originating IP for the message. So when someone gets spam from a gmail address and notifys spamcop, gmail servers get listed as spam.
Other internet mail services send out the sender's own personal ip as the originating ip. - cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -0/+1I guess 700 other diggers also feel "***** stupid".. right?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Or you could just have one account.
- t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Yeah, so do I, along with my 10 other email accounts.
The web googletalk is nice - I logged into that with Psi and added various jabber transports to it, so now I can use that to go onto MSN/AIM etc from within gmail... - mojaam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Only have 3 email accounts, I don't know but I don't mind logging into each
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1um.... pseudojd..... how do u do this with hotmail... how is this linked at all
basically, can this be done WITHOUT Unix? - DigeratiPrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yeah I have read instructions on how to forward it. The one I have tried is logging into pine using telnet and creating a .signature file. I followed these instructions I found here (not my isp):
http://www.afn.org/AFNforwarding.html
And on step 10 I do not see any .signature file in the file browser - yet it seems to remember the signature... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I've been doing this same thing for years.
- robertgoodwin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The problem with the "send from" feature is that the receiver sees something like "me1@site1.com on behalf of me2@site2.com" in the "From" field. True, if the receiver responds, it will go to the me2 address; but this does nothing to hide my me1 address, which I don't necessarily want everyone to know.
Am I missing something? - ojk007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1but thats //$
- lament, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1lol no you didn't, because when it first came out they didn't allow you to have multiple accounts, nor to set a Send As address. this only happened within the last year.
- fiv3isaliv3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1So how is this not common sense. Like 90% of the comments... I've been doing this for awhile.
- jrinco11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I do this too, and have been for a while, but I have to big complaints about it. 1) when you send mail w/one of the "send mail as" accounts, you have to use the same signature as gmail only allows one signature. 2) there are a few mail servers/providers that will still see all outgoing mail as coming from gmail (instead of the domain you are "send(ing) mail as") -- for example, I have all my email from other accts fwded to gmail, and have them all as a "send mail as" -- if I send mail through gmail as one of those accounts to any @yahoo.com addresses, when the recipient view the email, yahoo has a "DomainKeys" that shows it as coming from gmail....
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