A little gmail help

**insight spinner** · 09-25-2008, 10:27 AM

But if that happens you will quickly get a group (maybe only small) who will begin sending directly to your gmail and thwart your streamlining. I think more answers will arrive before 10/22 to help you do it the way you want.

**MrGibbage** · 09-25-2008, 10:34 AM

And not only that, things become real messy if say, I'm one of several addressees in an email, and someone else replies to all, and I reply to all, eventually things get all out of whack.

I thought of another possible solution here. Just use gmail for the notification of a new mail, but when I reply, I can use my own web mail. That will always be an option too. That way I get the push notification (I've already set up the auto forward from my primary account to my gmail account and it's working fine), and I can still reply and everything will seem normal.

I look forward to seeing other solutions here.

**hawtseks** · 09-25-2008, 10:42 AM

i send email from my business.com email address all the time from gmail and nobody knows the difference.

Get your email address forwarding to you gmail acct.

Go into your gmail settings and click the accounts tab.

Click add another email address.

Type the name for it and enter the address. (the name will show up as your name when you send emails)

It will send an email (that at this point shoudl be forwarded right back to gmail) with a link you click. this is to prevent people from using gmail to send fake emails and such.

Then go back into settings and set that one as default.

You can add multiple email addresses in this way. There is a drop down menu on the composition page of all the email addresses you can send from.

Its very convenient and nobody knows its coming from gmail, everyone thinks i'm using outlook or something because its from my business website domain. They get surprised when i tell them its gmail!!

**furrypotato** · 09-25-2008, 11:10 AM

As above, I now use gmail for my business email addresses and personal ones.

And anytime I reply to any of them, it sends the reply from the correct address - this is the feature that got me hooked to it.

I then use the filters to sort the different emails into their own 'Labels' (like folders in email clients)

I've done this as I was fed up of using Outlook or Thunderbird to hold all my emails and then lose them in a crash etc
Now all my emails are stored using Gmail in the 'cloud' and are safe and I can access them from any computer and my mobile phone.

Oh, and when I first started using gmail I set my old email client(thunderbird) up to connect to gmail using IMAP and then dragged and dropped all my old emails into gmail 'folders' , which transferred all the thousands of old emails into gmail so I didnt need to keep a backup.
I then stopped using Thunderbird and have never looked back.

So I'd recommend just going for it totally with gmail. I'ts so much better than all the ways I used to try using traditional email clients.

Good Luck.

**MrGibbage** · 09-25-2008, 11:36 AM

So, to get this straight, you guys don't normally have people send you email to your gmail account? They still send you email at your old email address and it shows up in gmail, and you reply to it, and it all just works? Wow, that rocks! I'm not a big fan of doing all of my email in a web client though, but I understand that gmail now has IMAP access, so that should also help. This just may work out just fine. Someone should right a tutorial on this--I have a feeling there will be a lot more people trying to do the same thing real soon. I saw one other guy here today that wanted to do it with his Yahoo mail, and I can imagine that would be a lot harder. At least in my case it is my own domain.

**hawtseks** · 09-25-2008, 12:03 PM

Yeah, it all just works! The only way someone will know you're using gmail is if they read the email header which 99% of poeple dont ever see. Once you start using it you will realize the advantages. No possible way of getting a virus, never have to backup contacts or email, your email is available to you on any computer with internet access, automatic spam filtering, never delete anything, you can use labels and filters to organize everything automatically. I couldn't survive without it.

**MrGibbage** · 09-25-2008, 12:50 PM

It's working! How cool is that!?!? Now tonight I will be uploading all of my current email to the google server--I hope it doesn't pi$$ them off.

**ROGUE7474** · 09-25-2008, 08:13 PM

I just found the user manual and getting started guide on another forum. From what I read you have both options of Gmail or other email setup with full functionality on both. Go to page 42 for Gmail or 48 for email setup.

http://support.t-mobile.com/knowbase...SERVICE=Manual