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Comment on Jazbah.org by Fatemeh

Fatemeh — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:52:02 +0000

Salaam and thanks for the name drop! ;)

Comment on Why Music Production Keeps Getting Crappier by Russel

Russel — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:04:33 +0000

Now that I am about to reinvest in CDs I was wondering what genres, labels, … heck … what years were good for CD-quality audio?

How would I know if a recording was compressed before buying it?

It’s a nightmare

Comment on Creating a New E-mail Taxonomy by Random Tangent

Random Tangent — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:36:58 +0000

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Comment on All E-mail Successfully Moved to Gmail! by Ameel

Ameel — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:16:08 +0000

Hans: Yes, I do use Gmail’s POP functionality (and not e-mail forwarding) for all my other accounts but I’m okay with the minor delays that this causes. The fetch algorithm usually works just fine for me — but that’s mainly because I rarely need to read e-mails urgently. When I do occasionally need to read an e-mail sent to one of my other accounts right away, I use that service’s web interface.

Comment on All E-mail Successfully Moved to Gmail! by Hans

Hans — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:57:26 +0000

Hello

I also had planned to gather 3 mailadresses into Gmail by having Gmail fetch the mail from the other adresses through it’s built in pop function. After some testing and reading though I skipped the idea, since you can’t configure how often Gmail is to check your other accounts, it runs its own algorithm based on previus fetchattempts. I didn’t like this at all, and also experienced some large delays from testing (even read about mail disappering on forums, though I didn’t experience that, just large delays) and not all of my webmail interfaces having the option of forwarding mail to Gmail to get around it’s fetching algorithm, I ended up with 3 separate imap accounts on my mailclient, and still using 3 separate webmail interfaces when needed.

What’s your experience on this? Got the impression from your article that you indeed do use Gmail’s popfunction, and not forwarding from your other accounts.

-Hans

Comment on I Graduated! by Ameel

Ameel — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:35:16 +0000

Thanks! :)

Comment on I Graduated! by Aman

Aman — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:47:52 +0000

Congratulations Ameel!!!

Comment on Article on the Phoenix’s Mars Landing by Carl Joseph

Carl Joseph — Wed, 28 May 2008 08:40:42 +0000

Another incredible milestone.

I got a notice on twitter mentioning that it was 4 minutes until landing. I had forgotten all about it. I jumped onto the net and got to watch them all count down and cheer when the probe landed. So inspirational to witness.

Comment on All E-mail Successfully Moved to Gmail! by Ameel

Ameel — Sat, 17 May 2008 08:25:49 +0000

Go for it, Carl. It’s certainly made my life a lot easier :)

As for handling multiple e-mail accounts/domains: If you can POP e-mail from your other accounts, you can add them to Gmail. Once those are added and verified (you have to enter an activation code that’s sent to those addresses) you have the option to send e-mail from those accounts as well. That is, you use Gmail’s webmail interface (and, therefore, Gmail’s servers) but you get a drop-down for which account you want to send your e-mail from.

You can use multiple accounts through your e-mail client as well. You do that by adding those accounts into the client’s profile but using the Gmail IMAP server for sending mail from each of them.

Is that what you meant? Or did you want to map an entire domain’s addresses through Gmail?

Comment on All E-mail Successfully Moved to Gmail! by Carl Joseph

Carl Joseph — Sat, 17 May 2008 06:54:30 +0000

Good stuff Ameel. I’ve been toying with doing something similar for my non work email.

I have a number of domains I write from. How would Gmail deal with that situation?