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Mark F: Have Mail.app autoforward everything to Gmail

Submitted by Merlin on October 13, 2005 - 1:04pm.

Boing Boing: Archiving email on Gmail

Mark at Boing Boing shares a great, no-brainer tip for making sure all your mail gets backed up to Gmail automagically.

I asked people to resend certain emails, including Charles Platt, and he gave me this great tip: set up a rule in Mac’s Mail.app to send a copy of every email that goes in and out over to a Gmail account. That way, you’ll always have a searchable archive of all the email you send and receive.

And, of course, I heartily second Mark’s love for the indispensable SuperDuper.

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Also, many email hosts --...

Submitted by Ayjay (not verified) on October 13, 2005 - 1:19pm.

Also, many email hosts – including Apple’s .Mac – have a setting allowing you to forward all incoming messages to another email address, while keeping them on the original server. That’s the better option, if you have it available, because none of the forwarded emails clutter up your Sent folder.