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Mail App & Gmail?
ahab | Oct 14 2006
I use Apple's mail.app for everyday email, and had been using it for business purposes as well. But now with a job shift I needed a new, non-private email address and got a gmail account. The question is, am I better off operating gmail through the mail.app interface? Or reserving mail.app for regular personal stuff and moving all the business (publishing) stuff over to gmail? Or forwarding everything from gmail to mail.app? Or? Or? I've read everything I could find on the subject, and while it's been informative it hasn't nudged me toward a useful either/or. I'll be dealing with a lot of incoming manuscripts that want reading and responding and rejecting or filing away for future use. Previously this stuff came to me via an intermediary; now it'll come directly to my gmail address, published on the publisher's website. 21 Comments
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That is how POP is...Submitted by dancingbrook on April 22, 2007 - 2:12pm.
michaelramm;9010 wrote:
That is how POP is supposed to work. It downloads to the machine that you access the mailbox on. If you want to be able to see your mail on multiple boxes, then you have to use a web interface or an IMAP mail service. You CANNOT use Gmail as an IMAP service. So you are better off forwarding it to an IMAP enabled service, or using the web interface. Actually, in Mail, under Preferences, Accounts, Advanced tab, you can deselect "Remove copy from server..." or choose one of the remove at a later date options, and this will allow you to see the mail in a pop account from multiple machines. This does have the disadvantage of not keeping track what you did with the mail from machine to machine. I use "remove after a week" on my iMac (my main machine) and remove after a month on my iBook. This allows me to see new mail when on the road, but still maintain the iMac as the primary place for dealing with Mail. Not as good as an IMAP solution, but works for me. This could work for an at home and at work solution, even if just using a web based mail viewer at work. » POSTED IN:
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