A little gmail help

[ROGUE7474]

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

[ROGUE7474]

I forgot to add the link for the getting started guide.

http://support.t-mobile.com/knowbase...ic/tm30235.pdf

[Driguez]

Originally Posted by ROGUE7474

I forgot to add the link for the getting started guide.

http://support.t-mobile.com/knowbase...ic/tm30235.pdf

VERY first sticky on this sub-forum


http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f41/g1-user-manual-and-getting-started-guide-823/

[furrypotato]

Couple more things to point out then now you've made the switch to Gmail...

Email Storage - not a problem. Google keep increasing the amount and since I started some 4 months ago its gone from 6.5Gb to 7.5Gb. enough for tens, if not hundereds of thousands of emails.

Webmail - When I first started using Gmail I stuck on my main PC to using Thunderbird as my email client with gmail using IMAP. But over the next 2 months I slowly started using the webmail more and more as I got used to it and now it's all I use. It just takes time to get used to doing things in a slightly different way.

POP3 checking - gmail only seems to connect to and check your pop3 accounts at intervals between 30-60 mins ( It almost seems random!). But if you expect an email in you can force gmail to check a pop3 account in 'Settings' then 'Accounts'

Inbox clutter - gmail puts all your emails into the Inbox by default, even if you use filters to apply Labels to different accounts etc. I would recommend disabling this in the account settings(something like 'skip the inbox and archive emails' . This keeps your inbox clutter free , and it's easy to find your emails in the different 'labels'.


Contacts : Cant really advise you here - My contacts were a complete mess and I've only just sorted them out manually on my WM phone and then synced that with gmail using OggSync software. I would hope that someone would sort out some proper munti-sync/import software for Android soon as it could be a big help.

Feel free to ask any other questions.
I'm going to be so jealous come October as I have to wait until at least the end of January to upgrade my mobile.
I just hope that HTC bring out their own independant Android phone soon as my network here in the UK, Orange, normally get their good stuff such as Touch, Diamond etc

[vuvision]

Originally Posted by furrypotato

Couple more things to point out then now you've made the switch to Gmail...

POP3 checking - gmail only seems to connect to and check your pop3 accounts at intervals between 30-60 mins ( It almost seems random!). But if you expect an email in you can force gmail to check a pop3 account in 'Settings' then 'Accounts'

Albeit not very elegant, this POP3 temp. work-around of going through Gmail server works OK for me. However the 10-30 minutes lag time of receiving email to my G1 phone is rather painful. At the moment, Google made clear that changing the frequency of fetching your mail is not an option.

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...88&ctx=sibling

Once you've set up Mail Fetcher, Google will check your other accounts on a regular basis, and new mail will appear automatically in Gmail. Gmail checks individual accounts for new messages at different rates, depending on previous mail fetch attempts. At this time you can't customize the frequency of automatic mail fetches.

The delay of getting POP3 email is unacceptable to me, here's to hope that Google/T-Mobile will resolve this POP3 email fiasco soon.

[MrGibbage]

I am getting there. Last night I uploaded my inbox of the last four years of emails totaling about a gig. Only using 12% of my gmail storage, so I'm not too worried. Tonight I will upload my sent items and I will be done.

As for contacts, I found a cool program that may or may not help you.
http://gcaldaemon.sourceforge.net/index.html

It allows your local thunderbird to see your contacts on the gmail LDAP server. I installed it, it's free, open source and works great.

Anyway, I've got all my mail forwarding to gmail now, and I've got the replies set up so it looks like I'm replying from my home address. It Just Works. Very cool. And if I need to, I've still got my desktop where I can see either account (the "real" or the gmail). Awesome.

[rawskilz]

am i the only person here that never used gmail? shud b a rought transition?

[Jorsher]

Originally Posted by rawskilz

am i the only person here that never used gmail? shud b a rought transition?

With all the help here from everyone, shouldn't be too tough of a transition. Really depends on what you're converting from.

[MrGibbage]

I never used gmail before either. I've spent the last two days getting set up the way I want it. Fortunately there is a lot of good help here. What's your question?

[benji]

What about if I have my personal domain hosted on Google Apps? I use the Gmail web client now, but login with my personal domain that doesn't end in @gmail.com -- will the Google Apps login work with the G1...?!