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Thank you Google for Gmail Fetcher

Posted by Mike Skinner April 5, 2007

Several months ago I read that Google was trialing Mail Fetcher on some Gmail accounts. Officially, Google’s position is that “This feature is currently only enabled for a limited number of users. We’re working on making it more available soon.”

Today I checked my Settings / Accounts page, and behold, a new option “Get mail from other accounts” was there. So I added two POP3 accounts…

What does this mean?

• Now I can benefit from Gmail’s spam filtering on my POP3 accounts. I no longer have a need for elaborate Thunderbird email filters. On average, only 1 spam message every 6 weeks makes it to my inbox – this is impressive.

• I can (optionally) automatically apply a filter to mail from any POP3 account.

• I can (optionally) immediately archive POP3 messages, use SSL, and leave messages on the orignal server.

• I can add up to five POP3 accounts.

I don’t store my mail on Gmail – I download it via POP3. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that when I access Gmail via POP3, it downloads mail from my other POP3 accounts too.

So if you haven’t accessed your Account Setttings recently, have a look – you may have access to this feature. Don’t let my repeated use of POP3 turn you off!

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