{"id":10597,"date":"2006-12-13T15:15:13","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T22:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/12\/13\/gmail-about-to-make-life-even-easier.html"},"modified":"2006-12-13T15:15:13","modified_gmt":"2006-12-13T22:15:13","slug":"gmail_about_to_make_life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/13\/gmail_about_to_make_life.html","title":{"rendered":"Gmail about to make life even easier"},"content":{"rendered":"
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So a bit over a month ago (early November), I managed to set up an autoforward for my root e-mail account on my hill-kleerup.org domain, so that all mail goes from there to my Gmail account (previously the host didn’t do that). The idea is that now I can do everything I want from Gmail as the client (including send mail under the virtual header of my native account, though some mail clients see it as being sent “on behalf of”).<\/p>\n

And, frankly, I’m loving using Gmail. It’s great having full-blown e-mail access wherever I go, and I love Gmail’s threading technology and built-in search.<\/p>\n

Now, it appears, Google is going to make it even better, and easier to do what I (and many other folks) have been doing via forwards: Mail Fetcher<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Gmail allows you to fetch mail from your other, non-Gmail accounts. You’ll be able to read email from up to 5 additional accounts, all in one place, and take advantage of all of Gmail’s great features. Note that the email accounts you would like to fetch will need to support POP access. Some free email services don’t support POP access at this time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In other words, it will let Gmail act as a POP client. I don’t have to autoforward — I can let Google go out and grab stuff as it comes in. And looking at the options …<\/p>\n

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