Hello Gmail
I’ve had a Gmail account for awhile, but I’ve never really used it. I already have so many email accounts to check. Until yesterday, they were all consolidated in Outlook. After taking another look at Gmail, I’ve decided to give it a go. The feature that sealed the deal for me was being able to impersonate my other email accounts. When I send an e-mail, I can click the From address that I want to use. That was my main reason for using Outlook. Of course, I had to have my own SMTP server, which was a pain. With Gmail, I can eliminate Outlook and Ypops from desktop, and eliminate SMTP from my server.
I have most of my accounts set up to automatically forward to Gmail. I’ve saved my main account, because I want to have some time to play around with Gmail before I go completely off Outlook. But so far I really like it.
sukhi, and 
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sukhi 12:05 pm on March 17, 2006 Permalink |
hmm, how do you get Yahoo to forward mail, I havent seen it do that.
Does Gmail really impersonate or just change the “reply-to” address?
techgrrl 2:00 pm on March 17, 2006 Permalink |
You have to upgrade to Yahoo! Mail Plus, which is $19.95 per year, to forward your Yahoo! mail. The bonus is you get ad-free e-mail. I figured the $20 was worth it to give me time to get my e-mail moved over to Gmail.
When you use the “impersonation” feature, the recipient sees something like “me@me.com” on behalf of “me@gmail.com” or “me@me.com” sent by “me@gmail.com”. So the recipient can see your Gmail address, but the From line shows the impersonated address. The reply-to defaults to the impersonated account, but you can set the reply-to to anything you want.
sukhi 10:50 am on March 21, 2006 Permalink |
I dont think Y! mail – or any mail is worth paying for. Thanks for the info though.
yeah, have used that feature of Gmail – but find it rather irritating that my Gmail addy is shown up as well (more so since it can confuse ppl).
notedscholar 5:19 pm on March 19, 2009 Permalink |
Gmail is exciting. It incorporates much in it. And, it’s settings page is clear and easy to use. And, Google is a great company, albeit with extremely dangerous world-domination motives.
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