I’ve been waiting on this to show up in my account since I first read about it; it finally did. Like many other people, I have (and use) more than one email account. It can be a pain to deal with. I have my college email, work email, and two personal emails. Now, Gmail let’s me check all four emails via the Gmail interface, which I love. And when you “reply” to someone who has sent mail to one of your other addresses, it uses that address as the reply address, instead of your Gmail address (which you can optionally set as the default). I’ve already added filters to automatically label my school and work emails. I’ve had the “send from another account” thing setup for a while now, but was never able to check other accounts until today. They were quietly sneaking it in people’s accounts. Unfortunately, I guess I wasn’t downloading my email from the server in all of my years at IRC, so now I’m getting thousands of email from 2 years ago randomly showing up. It’s kind of sporatic, but once I get through all of them, it looks like this setup will be really convenient for me. They’re spam filters work really well against my junk email, too.
I think Gmail is the most efficient and effortless way to keep track of email. It’s fast, smart, reliable, and innovative. Well, I guess it’s the Gmail team who is innovative. It just works extremely well. I’ve been having some issues with Outlook goofing up on me, causing me to almost be late for a meeting or two, and ignore an email from my boss for 2 weeks. Not a good thing. Like a lot of the things I use and love, I could go on and on about Gmail and its features, just in case there’s someone who may read this post and not have or know about Gmail. But how could that be? So I won’t go into all of that.
If you have a Gmail account, and you don’t know if this service is available to you, here’s how to find out: Gmail Mail Fetcher.