Stewart Stremler wrote:
begin quoting Paul G. Allen as of Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 08:23:32AM -0800:
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 20:55 -0800, Bob La Quey wrote:
I could use GMail as a POP service but I have not gotten
around to setting things up that way.
Me neither, though I should. I just set it up to forward to my
randomlogic.com address and then D/L and filter it from there.
I set up GMail as a POP service. Works fine. Haven't worried about
outbound email however, so at the moment it's read-only. Works fine.
I also have Gmail letting me POP mail from their server and I use
Thunderbird to do the POP. I also have "Leave Mail On Server" set in
case I need to see some mail but don't have Thunderbird on my laptop
available.
I just uncovered the SMTP server setting for outbound mail. The
motivation is that my work account is running off an Exchange server and
as we all know there isn't even the hint of the concept of "uptime" with
that beast which means sometimes it is available and... sometimes not...
So now when I send mail from that account I have the SMTP server set to
"smtp.gmail.com" which prompts for the gmail username/pw to execute
sending the message.
This setup is vary convenient... It is the main reason I stopped using
my Yahoo accounts (T-Bird, etc couldn't POP them).
<vent>
<consternate>
<worry>
Now if Google would only stay/continue to be friendly to the
non-M$Office/LookOut crowd I'll be pleased. But there is a bit of unease
in the back of my mind about how bad things can get when anyone
(especially billion dollar business) gains hegemony over our mindspace.
</worry>
</consternate>
</vent>
[snip]
rbw
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