Posts Tagged With: Gmail
· August 11, 2008 at 5:37 am · Online Tools, Personal
Tags: client, combine, Gmail, help, imap, pop3, setup, thunderbird, web
Now not saying my e-mail situation is the best setup around, but I do like to think I have a pretty neat foundation in place. Mixing Gmail with Thunderbird and my other mail accounts elsewhere I have everything sent to one place and I can get to it all from one login location either on the desktop or on the Web.
Import POP3 Accounts into Gmail
First things first, we have my Gmail account. This acts as my main mail account. From there, I have added all my other mail accounts from other various locations (such as lunarpages.com or mitchkeeler.com) to Gmail. Google’s e-mail client can act as an e-mail fetcher for all your other POP3 e-mail accounts. Here is a post from them describing how to set that up:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=21288
The short version would be go to Settings > Accounts and then “Add Another Mail Account”.
Get Gmail to Work with IMAP
This is where problem two comes into play. I want to be able to use Thunderbird on my desktop PC to manage my e-mail and then Gmail via the browser on my laptop (or anywhere else) to get to all my same mail via the Web. To enable IMAP in Gmail:
- Sign in to Gmail.
- Click Settings at the top of any Gmail page.
- Click Forwarding and POP/IMAP.
- Select Enable IMAP.
- Configure your IMAP client and click Save Changes.
To configure Thunderbird for Gmail/IMAP, be sure to check out this post here:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77662
Now for the Little Annoying Things
Alright, my mail system is in place and I can mirror Thunderbird with Gmail (or vice versa). There are a few small kinks yet to be worked out though. The worst of them is that your address book will not stay in sync between platforms. You can do this manually of course, but that is a pain in the rear. There are also a few configuration tweaks you have to change to get your tags and folders to match up with the right spot inside of Thunderbird.
Lifehacker has done a good write up on most of these other little tweaks you may wish to do, so check that out for more information. There you have it. It might not be the prettiest system but it does get the job done.
· November 13, 2007 at 6:49 am · Hot Web Topics
Tags: folders, Gmail, gmail 2, Greasemonkey, labels, scripts
As some might have realized by now, the new Gmail is great and all - but it breaks a lot of old Greasemonkey scripts that i have grown to love. Over time though, it seems that these crafty developers won’t be held down. Instead they are re-tooling their work and getting them back out there for the public to enjoy.
Here is the list of Greasemonkey scripts that are now working with the new Gmail 2 interface.
Some of these have been wrapped into the new Better Gmail 2 (from the Lifehacker crew) and I am sure others will follow suit. Know of any others that I might have missed?
· October 30, 2007 at 9:35 am · Online Tools
Tags: Apple, Gmail, Mac, skins, themes, update
While waiting for the Gmail folks to upgrade my account - figured I’d go out and look at some of the alternative themes out there for it. This one I found over at Userstyles.org - the home for scripts used with the Stylish Firefox extension (or with some, Greasemonkey).
I do have to say it looks pretty slick.
+ Check Out Gmail.app (Mac Os Style) on Userstyles.org!
· June 14, 2007 at 9:51 am · Online Tools
Tags: discussion, Gmail, Google, help, Resources, switch
In my adventure to switch from Yahoo! Mail to Gmail I have found a handful of links that have helped my both pre-move and post-move that I thought I’d share with you all.
Have any more to suggest? I’d love to check ‘em out.
· June 12, 2007 at 5:00 am · Online Tools, Software Help
Tags: better-gmail, extensions, Firefox, Gmail, tweaks
Going with the recent e-mail issues I have been having - there are several neat things I have learned and picked up along the way while switching from Yahoo! Mail to Gmail. I know there are more people in this same boat so hopefully this will be helpful to all.
Maybe the best (pardon the pun) tool I have found while switching has been the Better Gmail extension for Firefox. It ads a lot of the little customizations that I have been looking to do. My big ones were to hide the invite box, hide the ads, and make Gmail use https:// by default.
· June 11, 2007 at 5:00 am · Online Tools, Personal
Tags: clients, E-mail, Gmail, moving, switching, webmail, Yahoo
Well I spent Saturday morning making the big switch from Yahoo! Mail (who screwed me over royally with the ad-fest they started) to Gmail. I really had not used Gmail that much since the launch - so I was happy to see they have improved it greatly since then. My overall reaction over the move? I am happy thus far.
Step One - Getting Ready for the Move
First thing I did was move all my Yahoo! Mail message from my folder into my inbox. I deleted a lot of old crap I really didn’t need anymore. I’m not that much of a pack rat when it comes to e-mail so this might be easier for some than others.
Step Two - Setting Up Additional Accounts
Second thing I did was setup all my e-mail addresses up in Gmail so that I could start the switch. This could not be easier. I also set my old Yahoo address up to go there as well - so I wouldn’t miss out on a thing.
Step Three - Configure Gmail’s Settings
Third, I went through and configured the Gmail settings and imported my e-mail from Yahoo! to Gmail. This was easy enough, because it picked up on everything that was in my inbox at Yahoo! and brought it right in.
Step Four - Get Things Labeled, Forget the Folders
From there I setup my labels and got e-mails archived. That’s it! Now things are going smoothly and the one thing I have been most impressed by is the spam filtering that Gmail does. It might take a little training but in a whole it is leaps and bounds over what Yahoo! Mail provides.
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