{"id":6455,"date":"2004-08-31T14:57:12","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T21:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/08\/31\/gmail-2.html"},"modified":"2004-08-31T14:57:12","modified_gmt":"2004-08-31T21:57:12","slug":"gmail_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/31\/gmail_2.html","title":{"rendered":"Gmail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I have a Gmail (Google Mail) beta account.<\/p>\n<p>Now what?<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I&#8217;ve had it since right before the Comic-Con (thanks again, Fred), but only now went back to it.  Problem, is, I&#8217;m not sure what I want to do with it.<\/p>\n<p>I like having my own domain mail.  I have no desire to get rid of that.  Heck, I have no desire, when not at the office, to use a browser-based client rather than a local client program.  There are times when I want to look at my mail when I&#8217;m offline, and with Gmail that isn&#8217;t possible.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the Gmail interface is a lot nicer than, say, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mail2web.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mail2web<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>What would be keen would be a way in Gmail to pull all my messages in and use it as the reader of my POP account, but also use my PC-based client, too, as the &#8220;true&#8221; copy.  There doesn&#8217;t seem to be a way to do that, though.<\/p>\n<p>Harumph.<\/p>\n<p>Just not sure what I&#8217;m going to do with the thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I have a Gmail (Google Mail) beta account. Now what? Actually, I&#8217;ve had it since right before the Comic-Con (thanks again, Fred), but only now went back to it&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-computer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10597,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/13\/gmail_about_to_make_life.html","url_meta":{"origin":6455,"position":0},"title":"Gmail about to make life even easier","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 13-Dec-06 3:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"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...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;My Computer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"My Computer","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/my-computer"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/gmail.gif?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":17193,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/23\/end-of-an-era-gmail-back-to-outlook.html","url_meta":{"origin":6455,"position":1},"title":"End of an Era (Gmail back to Outlook)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 23-Apr-10 6:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, I am indeed Going Through With It, and changing back to Outlook for my office email.\u00a0 I am already missing the search functionality of Gmail and its easy web access and so forth ... and Outlook 2003 has already crashed on me twice ... but I really need to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Job Jollies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Job Jollies","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/job-jollies"},"img":{"alt_text":"outlook2003","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/outlook2003.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12090,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/22\/windows_gmail.html","url_meta":{"origin":6455,"position":2},"title":"Windows Gmail","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 22-Nov-07 8:34am","format":false,"excerpt":"\"What if Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?\"\u00a0 Yeah, it's about that bad (and funny). 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