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Gmail adds "Send Mail As" option
by Jordan Running Aug 25th 2005 at 8:38PM
In the midst of all the Google Talk hubbub, Google's Gmail team has added a neat and long-requested feature: "Send Mail As." Now, if you look under the Accounts tab in Settings, you'll see "Add another e-mail address." If you follow the instructions and enter the verification code that Google sends to that address, the next time you write an e-mail you'll have to option to choose between e-mail addresses you want the message "sent from." It also lets you specify a Reply-to address. Coupled with Gmail's POP support, this could be the final nudge many people need to abandon their desktop e-mail clients entirely.Via InsideGoogle.
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Jonathan Harford said 12:02PM on 8-26-2005
This is great -- now Gmail can be, effectively, an email client for other accounts!
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Whisky said 2:45PM on 8-26-2005
#1
It's a great feature, but in order to be a very effective email client, it would also have to be able to retrieve emails from other accounts like what yahoo can do.
Or does gmail already can do that?
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Seam said 2:45PM on 8-26-2005
Dude... Fastmail has had this feature for quite some time, so its not all that Revolutionary.
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Jordan Running said 2:50PM on 8-26-2005
Whisky: Yes, it does; that's the POP support I mentioned.
Seam: Who called it revolutionary? I'm just calling it handy.
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Whisky said 3:33PM on 8-26-2005
Jordan
Gmail has POP download, so you can access the email from outlook, but i don't see any options to access other POP accounts once could have and see it through the online Gmail interface, that would be excellent, that way if i reply i use the new "send mail as" option.
I only mention this because while i'm at work I can't send emails unless i use my work SMTP which i'm not allowed to use for my personal emails accounts, so i have to use, squirrel mail or neomail which i don't like.
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Jordan Running said 3:39PM on 8-26-2005
Whisky: My mistake.
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Whisky said 3:47PM on 8-26-2005
Jordan
It's ok... but that would be an ultimate feature...well for me at least, because Yahoo's POP retrieval of other accounts sucks! well it's got weird issues. Also yahoo to many ad's.
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paul said 5:11PM on 8-26-2005
If you want to receive e-mail from other accounts, set up those accounts so messages are automatically forwarded to your Gmail account. That's what I did with my POP e-mail, and it works great. If you want, you can even create a filter in Gmail so messages from a certain POP account will have a special label applied to mark them as such.
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dalton said 7:30AM on 8-31-2005
Damn - I got all excited about this and it's not on my account. I guess they're staggering the rollout on this one.
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