Gmail's new feature -

Edburg · 23-02-2007, 09:35 AM

Today i noticed a new feature in gmail - you can configure gmail to receive mails sent to your other email accounts straight to your gmail account.

Also the mails sent from gmail can be configured as it is sent from your other email accounts.

This is a very good one as i started to loose patience viewing all my three email accounts regularly.And also i like gmail over others.I am starting to hate Yahoo's big ads and the interface(both new and old).

Pathik · 23-02-2007, 09:56 AM

so gmail is taking over finally..

Stick · 23-02-2007, 10:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Edburg

Today i noticed a new feature in gmail - you can configure gmail to receive mails sent to your other email accounts straight to your gmail account.

Also the mails sent from gmail can be configured as it is sent from your other email accounts.

This is a very good one as i started to loose patience viewing all my three email accounts regularly.And also i like gmail over others.I am starting to hate Yahoo's big ads and the interface(both new and old).

Will All eamil service providers (yahoo, rediff, hotamil etc etc) clients allow Gmail to access

shashank4u · 23-02-2007, 10:06 AM

i ve also same view ..google will take over yahoo finally ..
also i dont like the new yahoo mail...
gmail is best..

Edburg · 23-02-2007, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Stick

Will All eamil service providers (yahoo, rediff, hotamil etc etc) clients allow Gmail to access

I dont think they will have to allow access.Since gmail asks us the passwords for the accounts,i think gmail will query them as a normal browser would and then send the contents to gmail account.(I am not sure)

ilugd · 23-02-2007, 11:06 AM

pop3 access. I am not sure if yahoo and rediffmail free accounts allow pop3 access. You can only use this facility for pop3 accounts.
It is useful for me. I have 3 accounts on my organization's domain. Our IT Administrators don't know how to forward mail from an account to another. So i set up google to periodically pick up the mails from the accounts and to forward it to blackberry. It is cool!

cooldip10 · 23-02-2007, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Edburg

Today i noticed a new feature in gmail - you can configure gmail to receive mails sent to your other email accounts straight to your gmail account.

Also the mails sent from gmail can be configured as it is sent from your other email accounts.

This is a very good one as i started to loose patience viewing all my three email accounts regularly.And also i like gmail over others.I am starting to hate Yahoo's big ads and the interface(both new and old).

Very Good News Man..

You are 100% correct.. checking too many accounts become cumbersome

Hope gmail adds more features too..

koolbluez · 23-02-2007, 11:28 AM

Actually... I used to forward my Yahoo mails, all, to GMail from quite sometime

**Apollo** · 23-02-2007, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by ilugd

pop3 access. I am not sure if yahoo and rediffmail free accounts allow pop3 access. You can only use this facility for pop3 accounts.

Yup. Yahoo Mail Plus!

And also, this Gmail feature was out quite a while ago - early December or somewhere around there.

alsiladka · 23-02-2007, 01:52 PM

Ya, i just checked! No new features on Gmail as of now.
Are you talking about "Check other accounts" from you Gmail as found in the Settings?

it is a old feature and is provided by Yahoo Mail too.

Kiran.dks · 23-02-2007, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Edburg

Today i noticed a new feature in gmail - you can configure gmail to receive mails sent to your other email accounts straight to your gmail account.

Also the mails sent from gmail can be configured as it is sent from your other email accounts.

This is a very good one as i started to loose patience viewing all my three email accounts regularly.And also i like gmail over others.I am starting to hate Yahoo's big ads and the interface(both new and old).

This is not a new feature. This has been around since gmail started.

It works in this way...
Register other ID in gmail. It may be yahoo or any email account. Gmail sends a verification mail to that account. Log-in to that account and confirm. Now all your mails gets forwarded directly to the gmail account automatically.
In the same way you can also configure other email ID in gmail, so that you can send mail from gmail using that ID! Awesome feature.

Eg: abcd@yahoo.co.in registered in gmail. Now log-in to gmail and send mails to friends as abcd@yahoo.co.in

alsiladka · 23-02-2007, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Kiran_tech_mania

This is not a new feature. This has been around since gmail started.

It works in this way...
Register other ID in gmail. It may be yahoo or any email account. Gmail sends a verification mail to that account. Log-in to that account and confirm. Now all your mails gets forwarded directly to the gmail account automatically.
In the same way you can also configure other email ID in gmail, so that you can send mail from gmail using that ID! Awesome feature.

Eg: abcd@yahoo.co.in registered in gmail. Now log-in to gmail and send mails to friends as abcd@yahoo.co.in

I think you mixed two different features into one. When you register and verify another ID in gmail, you can send mails using that ID to others, but not recieve mails from that ID.

To recieve mails from another ID, that ID needs to Support POP3 access and then gmail can retireve those mails to your inbox and display them in Gmail.

Kiran.dks · 23-02-2007, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by alsiladka

I think you mixed two different features into one. When you register and verify another ID in gmail, you can send mails using that ID to others, but not recieve mails from that ID.

To recieve mails from another ID, that ID needs to Support POP3 access and then gmail can retireve those mails to your inbox and display them in Gmail.

Oops! Yes. I got mixed up. Actually inorder to get SMTP server mails to gmail inbox automatically, one needs to use "Automatic Forward feature" of that client. I have configured my yahoo ID to autoforward mails directly to gmail account. The one which I explained above is for forwarding mail frm gmail using other mail client.

hemant_mathur · 23-02-2007, 04:55 PM

This feature has been around for sometime now .. i have been using this for around 2 months. It's a real cool feature.

Edburg · 23-02-2007, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by koolbluez

Actually... I used to forward my Yahoo mails, all, to GMail from quite sometime

Oops.I didn;t know that it was available before.I never used to go deep into them to check out things.As the new feature was highlighted.i thought it was new.May be they changed some things in it.
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Originally Posted by Apollo

Yup. Yahoo Mail Plus!

And also, this Gmail feature was out quite a while ago - early December or somewhere around there.

Yahoo Mail plus ? I have just the free account and i am able to do these things.

Perhaps this is the new feature added

But i havent configured it properly( just laziness) and i dont receive the mail properly.may be its because mail plus ! is needed or i did some wrong configurations.

alsiladka · 23-02-2007, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Edburg

Yahoo Mail plus ? I have just the free account and i am able to do these things.

Perhaps this is the new feature added

But i havent configured it properly( just laziness) and i dont receive the mail properly.may be its because mail plus ! is needed or i did some wrong configurations.

All Yahoo Mail users of country specefic sites like co.in get Free Pop Access and Mail Forwarding. Sadly, users with .com IDs do not get these features for free, they need to Subscribe to Yahoo Mail plus by paying money.

hdsk.23 · 23-02-2007, 06:40 PM

hi everybody can u tell me where to set this feature, please tell me the detail instructions step by step please................................

Edburg · 23-02-2007, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by hdsk.23

hi everybody can u tell me where to set this feature, please tell me the detail instructions step by step please................................

Go to gmail and then at settings at the top right,goto accounts and there u can configure these things.
Settings->Accounts

aryayush · 23-02-2007, 10:08 PM

I think the best solution is to use an email client. No mess.

ilugd · 23-02-2007, 11:08 PM

yeah, aryayush agreed. But in my office we connect to the office through a proxy and no pop3 access outside the network is allowed. Gmail allows me to bypass this limitation.

joey_182 · 23-02-2007, 11:31 PM

ya this feature is good..
and i too think gmail is fast but there is a doubt of security...
and couple of problems yet to be solved to take over yahoo...

ilugd · 23-02-2007, 11:51 PM

yeah security. We are in real trouble if google takes over the world. They will know exactly which all porn sites i subscribe to. <grunts..> Fat Chance!!

dheeruymv1212 · 24-02-2007, 05:09 PM

hiiiiiiiiiiii i just came across tat new feature ....it asked me abt ur new email account address i added up my yahoo's address next it displayed a form 2 choose password n some options....but by clicking next i am getting error as invalid ID/password....????? guys plz help abt tat...i entered letter by letter correctly of my ID n password...but same thing is repeating again????

help me out????????????

..:: Free Radical ::.. · 25-02-2007, 04:33 AM

EDIT:
There used to be this Autoforwarding and free POP3 access in yahoo mail a while back available for Yahoo! delivers subscribers which I used to forward my email from yahoo to gmail.
Sadly, new yahoo ids don't get this feature and thus no POP3 and forwarding.
This feature supports web based email clients which have POP3. So, new free Yahoo ids are of no use, albeit I am using my old id successfully via either yahoo's autoforwarding or GMails POP3 fetcher (both are different services).

sam9999 · 26-02-2007, 12:03 PM

I m not able to access my yahoo .com ID thru this feature

. Any solution

piyush gupta · 26-02-2007, 12:15 PM

try check ur settings in
Gmail->Settings->Accounts

24online · 26-02-2007, 02:36 PM

video by google :

Gmail :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBbmiQhuAhU

cranky · 01-03-2007, 02:15 PM

Heard of this new cool feature in Gmail where you can access your other e-mail accounts (yahoo,hotmail etc.) if they support POP3 ??

I got this feature today, right now this feature is enabled for some of the users. Oh man, this means more gmail users, tough competition for the others, I think someday e-mail will be actually called G-mail