Gmail everywhere now?
Latest posts | Feed | By Mark Brownlow on December 11, 2006
Marc Orchant reports on a new feature over at Google's email service. MailFetcher allows you to use Gmail to send and receive email through any Pop3-enabled account.
That means people can use Gmail to work with the emails they send and receive through other services like Yahoo! Mail Plus.
So what? (You may well ask.)
It used to be relatively easy to see which of your addresses used the Gmail service (the @gmail.com address was a big clue).
It's not so easy anymore.
Gmail now offers a mobile version *and* MailFetcher *and* is the behind-the-scenes technology powering the email systems of various organisations (see this post). Which means -- depending on the take up rate of these new services and features -- that any number of email addresses might actually be Gmail "in disguise".
What does this mean for you and me?
If you haven't worried too much about how your emails display in the Gmail interface, it's time to do so. Even if your list doesn't have too many @gmail.com addresses in it.
More on designing for different email address services | Tags: email marketing, gmail, mailfetcher, email design
That means people can use Gmail to work with the emails they send and receive through other services like Yahoo! Mail Plus.
So what? (You may well ask.)
It used to be relatively easy to see which of your addresses used the Gmail service (the @gmail.com address was a big clue).
It's not so easy anymore.
Gmail now offers a mobile version *and* MailFetcher *and* is the behind-the-scenes technology powering the email systems of various organisations (see this post). Which means -- depending on the take up rate of these new services and features -- that any number of email addresses might actually be Gmail "in disguise".
What does this mean for you and me?
If you haven't worried too much about how your emails display in the Gmail interface, it's time to do so. Even if your list doesn't have too many @gmail.com addresses in it.
More on designing for different email address services | Tags: email marketing, gmail, mailfetcher, email design
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