There are already few neat little utilities available for Gmail:
First, there is Mbox & Maildir to Gmail Loader (discussion). This neat little application will take any archive of your mail in mbox format and bounce it to your Gmail account, much like I did using Pine, but easier! Download for Windows or Linux. To use, run: gml.exe [mbox or maildir] [mbox file or maildir path]
[gmail address] [Optional SMTP Server]. Unfortunately, this tool doesn’t get around Gmail’s received timestamping. All of the message you bounce will show up in Gmail as received at the time the Gmail server received the message. Viewing the actual emails or searching reveals the correct time.
If you want to work the other way and grab all of your Gmail via POP access, there are a couple utilities: Pop Goes the Gmail (discussion) and eMail2Pop. They are both utilities that sit between the Gmail web server and your email client of choice, converting messages from web format into POP3 so they can be retrieved with your email client of choice. Download the free PGtGM here, or visit the eMail2Pop site for an evaluation version.
For those of you migrating from Yahoo, you can use YahooPOPs and Thunderbird to retrieve your mail, followed by gml on the appropriate mbox files to transfer it to Gmail. To redirect your Yahoo, Hotmail or MSN mail to your new Gmail account, use GetMail.
If you’d like a new mail notification for your system tray, download gtray. Unfortunately, it’ll only use IE to open your Gmail account.
For those Gmail users upset that mailto: links open another email client and not your Gmail, check out G-Mailto, which associates the mailto: links in your browser with Gmail, opening a compose window automatically.
A lot of people have been talking about using Gmail’s massive storage space as a remote data repository. Sure enough, someone whipped up a script using PHP and libcurl to send and retrieve arbitrary files to and from your Gmail account. It’s only available as source right now, but it’s just a proof of concept; it’d be real simple for one to create a web interface.
I would add GmailTo, a tiny app that asociate mailto: shortcuts to Gmail and the neat php script that allows us to use Gmail as a remote harddrive.
You can find them here:
http://rsc112.blogspot.com/2004/06/more-gmail-tools-and-tips-ilia.html
http://rsc112.blogspot.com/2004/06/my-personal-gmail-review-with.html
I’d like to add that there is a very slick perl module available for interfacing with Gmail on cpan:
http://search.cpan.org/~mincus/Mail-Webmail-Gmail-0.09/
Also, why is it that there are no pop utilities available for linux?? I would love to locally store gmail emails for that rare time when I don’t have internet access.
Maybe I’ll just have to code one in gtk…
I’d like to add my program to the “Gmail notification” section of your post.
My program, called gNotify, monitors your Gmail account and notifies you via the systray when you have new mail.
Screenshots and more information are available at:
http://www.gNotify.com/
i would like an e-mail acount on gmail.
With best regards
Greg Greece
Hello, please consider http://www.g2007.com/GMNotifier/ for your list.
what is the gmail server http server address to retrieve messages from outlook?
if anyone knows that would be awesome
Does anyone knows which is the gmail server??? I want to set a POP3 email account and they ask me for the
gmail server. Thx!
I cant seem to set up my tmobile phone to retreive emails form my gmail acount. I tried setting it up through the Tmobile website but it can seem to be able to set it up. Can nyone help me? What are the server addresses for gmail??
For all of those asking about the Gmail POP3 server: it doesn’t exist.
There are other options.
Where can I get Gmail? I do not know where to download it at, please send a link to my e-mail adress… Thank you!
Just wondering where to register, sorry about the screw up, I don’t need to download anything… Do I?
Stop asking silly questions like “Does anyone knows which is the gmail server???” bah!
Iwould like to open a gamail account
I would like to try this g mail free email apart from the one I am using now
Its better using gmail account rather than using other free email accounts.
i wanna try it out n c wuts up cuz i heard it waz aite.. so aite den peace
If somebody have GMAIL acount , please send me invitation to victorpositan@yahoo.com Tx alot my friend’s
I really want a gmail server. I’ve heard its very large. Can someone please tell me how??
Can you help me to get gmail?
if you need a gmail account send a email with gma! in the subject
How do I get a gmail account???
Hi
I wanted a new Gmail account.
For those of you asking for invites, try the “official” Gmail invite pool:
http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Invites
Good luck.
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hey any body using massenger can tell me how i can go and chakc the email through messenger