Comments on: E-mail Resolution: Enabling multiple device communication and spam filtering improvements

By: Babylya

Babylya — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:52:42 +0000

Вот так,согласен с предыдущими высказываниями
^..^

By: Angrygnome

Angrygnome — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:37:44 +0000

From my gmail account I can set it up to send and retrieve mail for other accounts. Is that also possible for a google hosted account? Basically I want myemail@gmail.com to also get myemail@mydomain.com that is hosted by gmail. Sending doens’t appear to be a problem, but when I point it to mail.mydomain.com (and there is a CNAME and MX record there) it either doesn’t find it’s way back to gmail or gmail is not allowing me to do this. Any thoughts?

By: Don

Don — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:11:14 +0000

gmail does the biz – I pull email off 2 other services into my gmail account & my own domain’s email is fwded directly into gmail, No issues, happens whether I’m online or offline. I just use gmail via a browser now & I could hv more than one browser open on my mailbox at any time. The spam filtering is very effective, never get anything in my mailbox but quickly scan the crap before letting gmail delete it. It just works, I don’t think it’s evil, I like it.

By: Braxton Beyer

Braxton Beyer — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:06:39 +0000

You have to try http://otherinbox.com It will eliminate your spam and unclutter your email

By: mark

mark — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:56:01 +0000

You wrote:

“Gmail has a great spam filtering system and is the best that I have found in the free e-mail system market. Unfortunately, three of my four e-mail accounts are not through Gmail.”

Solution: SpamSieve.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:40:47 +0000

Who are these people who can get away with having no more than two email accounts? Like Erin, I have two just for my day job- one for me, and one a shared account with the other member of my department (we run the website and both need to have access to the requests in case one of us is out).

I have another one for my personal stuff. Then I have a fourth one for my labor-of-love gig. I could theoretically merge these two, but that would create more clutter problems than it would solve.

By: foo

foo — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:44:07 +0000

@Amy: you just keep the unanswered mail in your inbox (or better move it to your deferred mailfolder). Every checked and processed email you move to its own folder (mbox, readed, done). Check Inbox Zero or similiar ideas. Every mail you need to process (f.e. need to be answered) you can find later in your defered mailfolder (or inbox).

By: Chris W

Chris W — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:35:45 +0000

I set up Google Apps accounts for my domains, and have Google handle all my email (read: take all my spam, free of cost to me). The Google Apps mail interface is essentially Gmail. (It’s usually a revision behind the main Gmail interface.) I’ve been using IMAP from my iPhone and laptops to read and send mail through my various mail accounts hosted by Google, and one Yahoo address. I don’t understand the requirement for offline access, but I hardly ever use the Gmail web interfaces, online or off. I just use my iPhone, mail.app, and Thunderbird. It takes a little getting used to what the IMAP commands do with regards to Gmail labels and archival, but it works extremely well, and I never have to worry about being online/offline, inbox quotas, synchronization across devices, or spam.

By: Erin Doland

Erin Doland — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:17:27 +0000

@timgray — Using IMAP/POP doesn’t allow you to use the Gmail interface offline. I have my Gmail account all tricked out for the one account I do have with them, but could never setup the same system with offline services … until yesterday, apparently: http://lifehacker.com/5140668/.....e&s=i

By: timgray

timgray — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:11:03 +0000

You never needed to be online to access Gmail. you could retrieve all your Gmail via imap or pop. I read all my gmail off my blackjack phone for 2 years. never was online to read only online for 6-12 secodns to retrieve, and it did it automatically for me.

you needed to be online to RETRIEVE the email, but I have yet to find any email service that will let me retrieve email without any internet access.

By: Erin Doland

Erin Doland — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:09:27 +0000

@Jeannine — I could merge them, but I don’t WANT to merge them. Each address serves a very clear function and applies to a specific context. You wouldn’t use a hammer to do the work of a screwdriver. My interns are fantastic kids, but they legally can’t have access to conversations I have with other businesses, reporters, and confidential corporate information.

By: Jeannine

Jeannine — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:48:28 +0000

I agree with Dave….narrowing down the four e-mail addresses any way you can (be ruthless!) would likely help the most. I think one e-mail address for work and one personal is plenty. Maybe the general Unclutterer account can be forwarded to your individual work account? Same thing with your alias….it could likely be forwarded to your personal account.

By: Erin Doland

Erin Doland — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:38:06 +0000

@Dave P — I have two for work (one that is actually mine, and one that is the general Unclutterer one the interns sort through for administrative purposes). One personal one. And my “online alias” one that I use when filling out forms online for site registrations and such.

By: Rue

Rue — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:29:24 +0000

@Amy: I personally read email on my iPhone and if I find it warrants a long response, I don’t delete it. I wait until I’m at a real computer to respond to it.

I have IMAP enabled on my phone and Gmail accounts, but somehow along the way my settings have changed to where when I delete messages on my iPhone, they don’t delete in my actual Gmail inbox. They just sit there with the label “Deleted messages” on them. I haven’t figured out yet how to fix this.

I do agree that Gmail’s spam filtering is awesome. The one downside to Gmail is that it doesn’t allow you to block certain email addresses/domains (Windows Live Mail does). I tend to block the domains of spam emails that I get. The only option Gmail gives you for this is to create a filter using an email address, subject, etc., and the email is only deleted without you seeing it – it’s not actually blocked from coming into your inbox. All that being said though, Gmail is still the best free email client that I’ve used.

By: Dave P.

Dave P. — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:18:21 +0000

Why do you have FOUR email accounts? Is that really necessary?

By: Alastair Scott

Alastair Scott — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:11:05 +0000

@shay: Some can’t do it because they don’t offer complete support for mapping server folders to application folders.

For example, Mail.app under Leopard – even under the latest build, 10.5.6 – creates extra folders in my fastmail.fm folder tree for notes and calendar entries and sometimes gets very confused, nesting extra folders inside extra folders. I have reported this, but there has not been a fix so far.

I switched to GyazMail (www.gyazsquare.com); although it costs (a little) it handles IMAP far more conservatively and is, in general, a better mail client. All application folders can be mapped to server folders and the result is “clean”.

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:01:45 +0000

Question: What if you use an IMAP protocol but find you have e-mails that you’d really rather respond to via computer and not iPhone? Some e-mails require a longer response, and I’m not super enamored of the itty-bitty keyboard on the iPhone for typing those up.

By: John

John — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:41:57 +0000

Another email tip: pick an email service provider than is not your internet provider and migrate to them. Gmail or Yahoo will work, as will various paid services that will offer you additional support and features. The point is that if you move, switch from DSL to cable internet, etc., your email address will not change – so you don’t have to tell everyone in the world about your online “move.”

By: sharon

sharon — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:17:36 +0000

I use mac mail and gmail. And I use SpamSieve to filter my mac mail. It works great except that SpamSieve doesn’t have an iPhone app so my spam was coming through to my iPod Touch.

This led me to take a look a t the email coming in. Most of the spam is from companies and catalogs that I had signed up for in the past 10 years. My favorites are book marked so I don’t need web addresses. I have been unsubscribing to almost all that come in. And with the economy being so bad, many companies and increased the amount of email that they send out because of the low cost to them.

I am buying less and don’t need or want these reminders about stuff I don’t want or need or can’t afford.

By: Rick Austin

Rick Austin — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:50:54 +0000

I also recommend the GMail approach. Started funneling all of my email through GMail and 99% of spam has been eliminated. Much better than some of the products I’ve purchased over the years.

The cool thing is that you can still have outbound messages be sent as if it came from the email address to which it was originally sent to. If I get a message to my personal address via GMail and reply then the reply looks to the recipient as if it came from my personal address.

It also reduces the “places” I have to go to check email. It is accessible from home, work, mobile devices, and anywhere I can get to a computer.

Works for me and your mileage may vary .