I like to think of myself as somewhat of a power user when it comes to mail servers, SSH, Gmail, and Outlook, but this one has me stumped! I use Outlook for both work and personal e-mail, but while on the network at work our ports are pretty locked down. How might I access my Gmail account via IMAP in Outlook while on a locked-down network? Ports 25, 110, 143, 587, 993, etc., are all blocked. In order to access personal e-mail, I connect via SSH (PuTTY) to my DreamHost mail server and tunnel POP/SMTP (ports 110 and 25) traffic over that SSH session. Is there any way I could use that SSH connection to tunnel to Gmail's servers for IMAP access as well? If not using that tunnel, is there another way? I can access Gmail through a web browser, but my objective is to be able to collect all my e-mail in Outlook as well. Thanks!
posted on Aug 7, 2008 - 7 answers

Escabechette has years of old e-mail stored on an old school account that's soon going to close. We want to move all this e-mail to her gmail account. Apparently this is now easy because "GMail supports IMAP." But I haven't succeeded in finding instructions (on AskMeFi or elsewhere) which are suitable for someone, like me, who doesn't know what the word "IMAP" means. Is this really easy? And can you explain to this naif how to do it? [more inside]
posted on Jul 19, 2008 - 8 answers

Our company has been using Gmail’s SMTP servers without issue for the last couple years for sending our ecommerce clients emails that read “A customer has placed an online order on your web site. To access it go to https://www.sometime.com/.” - Well, this week Gmail started blocking our outgoing messages as spam. [more inside]
posted on Jun 17, 2008 - 9 answers

Is there any disadvantage to switching to Google Apps for my domain over just using regular gmail? [more inside]
posted on Jun 8, 2008 - 4 answers

Can Gmail do something similar to the "Redirect" feature in OS X's Mail.app? [more inside]
posted on Jun 5, 2008 - 5 answers

Does gmail not like the multipart/alternative MIME type? [more inside]
posted on May 29, 2008 - 9 answers

Help! Why is my Gmail, accessed through my Macbook's Mail application, occasionally not sending emails, even though they're listed as "sent"? [more inside]
posted on May 12, 2008 - 7 answers

How do you organize your email? How can I better organize my emails and be a better email-user? [more inside]
posted on May 11, 2008 - 10 answers

Which is a better option for controlling spam? Buying the IMail Premium Anti-Spam filter for our existing IMail mail server or migrating our mail to Google Apps for Your Domain? [more inside]
posted on Apr 15, 2008 - 6 answers

What are the risks and benefits of using Google Apps to send and receive eMail from my domains? [more inside]
posted on Mar 22, 2008 - 10 answers

Is it possible to edit the auto-complete list in gmail? [more inside]
posted on Mar 18, 2008 - 7 answers

I am trying to get the Email Indicator LED on my Acer Aspire laptop working with GMail and/or Outlook 2007. The easiest way seems to be with some sort of POP emulator/pass-through. [more inside]
posted on Mar 5, 2008 - 2 answers

How can I remove the Sender header ("on behalf of") when sending from a different address in Gmail? Will Google Apps help me do what I want? [more inside]
posted on Feb 14, 2008 - 8 answers

How best to use search folders with categories to search through Gmail-style tags, in Outlook? [more inside]
posted on Feb 6, 2008 - 7 answers

Two questions regarding the use of Outlook 2007 and Gmail's IMAP. Here are the questions; detailed explanations inside. -I use Gmail to pull mail and send from two other e-mail accounts. Is there a way to set Outlook up to do the same? -When I open Outlook, it creates a label called "Junk E-mail" in Gmail. Is there a way to stop this? [more inside]
posted on Jan 15, 2008 - 2 answers

I love Gmail, but with all the security and privacy concerns, I'm thinking of bailing. Whereto next? [more inside]
posted on Dec 25, 2007 - 15 answers

PanicFilter: Gmail disabled my account, I don't know why, and I'm expecting very important emails tomorrow morning. What do I do? [more inside]
posted on Dec 5, 2007 - 17 answers

I can't remember the password for one of my Gmail accounts and I'm beginning to think Google hates me. [more inside]
posted on Nov 29, 2007 - 6 answers

Gmail Contacts filter: I'd like to control the width of column displays in my Gmail contacts list. Right now the "Name" column is too narrow - long names get cut off by the "Details" column. Also, I would like to be able to display the "Notes" from the contact entry form on the "All Contacts" display. Can you hope me?
posted on Oct 25, 2007 - 2 answers

How can I send e-mail with an attachment to a group of people, including myself, and set it to be sent out at a designated future time? More details and info inside. [more inside]
posted on Oct 4, 2007 - 9 answers

How do I hide names in gmail? [more inside]
posted on Sep 25, 2007 - 6 answers

Recent Gmail trouble: no text box showing when "rich formatting" selected, using Firefox and XP. Works fine in IE. [more inside]
posted on Sep 24, 2007 - 2 answers

I manage a small network of users, and currently we are using Google Apps for our domain, and getting mail via POP. I'd very much like to fake IMAP access to Google by creating an intermediary/shadow account (either on our web host, or on our local Apple XServe running OS X 10.4 Server) and configuring it like so: 1. Set Google address to forward automatically to shadow account. 2. Set desktops to check mail through shadow account, but send email through Google's SMTP servers, to keep conversations in tact. [more inside]
posted on Sep 3, 2007 - 4 answers

RSS2EmailFilter: Help me get individual RSS posts into my Gmail inbox. [more inside]
posted on Aug 26, 2007 - 8 answers

On occasion, I send a mass email to about 200 people. I like to customize the message with the recipient's name in the body. I have used Word/Outlook to do this in the past, but I'd like to find a solution for doing this with Gmail. I'm okay with a web-based solution - and even okay with paying for the message to be sent, as long as it's less than $25 or so for the entire batch. Just want it to look professional and show the personalization that I'd like. [more inside]
posted on Jul 22, 2007 - 8 answers

My systems administrator won’t let me forward my company mail to Gmail. Outlook is making me crazy and not getting the job done. How can I either a.) configure Outlook to mimic some of Gmail’s best features, or b.) find an Outlook alternative that won’t invite the ire of the tech department? (Specifics inside.) [more inside]
posted on Jul 20, 2007 - 20 answers

In the Yahoo email inbox - is there a way to see the first sentence of the email like I am shown in my Gmail inbox? [more inside]
posted on Jul 13, 2007 - 7 answers

How can I make an iBook with Mail and an iMac with Entourage stay on the same page? [more inside]
posted on Jul 9, 2007 - 2 answers

I want to run a mail server on my computer so that I can feed email from different POP accounts into an IMAP account. The weird part is I don't care to access by IMAP over the web, but I do want to POP it into GMail. Confused? Me too. [more inside]
posted on Jun 28, 2007 - 4 answers

I want to be able to email myself into the future, using Gmail. So for example, 3 months from now, I want to receive an email from myself reminding me to renew the license sticker on my car. How can I do this? If not Gmail, then how?
posted on Jun 26, 2007 - 21 answers

How can I stop Google Gmail from blocking my OUTGOING emails to my distribution list? [more inside]
posted on Jun 24, 2007 - 9 answers

I'm out of the country with my family for the next few weeks, and don't want my boyfriend to get too lonely back home. How can I schedule pre-written emails to be automatically sent to him? [more inside]
posted on Jun 20, 2007 - 15 answers

Doing my foo@foo.com email stuff on my foo@gmail.com? [more inside]
posted on Jun 5, 2007 - 12 answers

Giving up Google: can you suggest alternatives? [more inside]
posted on May 8, 2007 - 26 answers

I use Outlook at work since my company uses Exchange Server. They only give us 35MB of e-mail storage. I would love to use my Gmail account to manage all my e-mail however I would need to have my work e-mail forwarded to my Gmail account. I can access my Exchange account via Exchange or IMAP. Are there any automated ways to redirect incoming mail to anothter address?
posted on May 5, 2007 - 5 answers

Gmail appears to have failed me. AskMe, show me the light. I use Gmail to retrieve my email from my vanity domain via POP. All is good, except for it appears that Gmail does not actually delete emails on the POP account when you delete and trash it in Gmail. Now my vanity domain email account is maxed out with several months worth of deleted email & spam clogging it. [more inside]
posted on Apr 20, 2007 - 8 answers

Gmail question, here's the scenario: I want to forward an email to an ad hoc list of people (meaning, not a group I've forwarded to before, or am likely to again). I open the email, I hit reply, and on the To: line, I click....what? [more inside]
posted on Apr 16, 2007 - 9 answers

I can't seem to email (gmail) font files to a client. What am I missing? [more inside]
posted on Apr 2, 2007 - 8 answers

How do you get mail in "mbox" fomat into Gmail via pop? [more inside]
posted on Mar 4, 2007 - 6 answers

Will I be okay having my work emails forward into Gmail? [more inside]
posted on Feb 1, 2007 - 25 answers

After years of slaving to my company's email and calendaring platform (Entourage) I now find myself not with that company anymore and free to choose what to use. [more inside]
posted on Jan 1, 2007 - 9 answers

UnderseaCablesFilter: I am in Indonesia and I cannot access my Gmail account through normal means post-Taiwan earthquake. [more inside]
posted on Dec 28, 2006 - 9 answers

Gmail-with-Thunderbird filter: I've recently switched from a local ISP with Netscape mail to Gmail with Thunderbird. I love the switch but for two minor irritations - the conversation-based mail creating constant duplicates in my Thunderbird inbox, and Thunderbird continually thinking my emails are scams. Help? [more inside]
posted on Nov 14, 2006 - 6 answers

Is there a way to automatically redirect emails from one Gmail account to another? [more inside]
posted on Nov 11, 2006 - 8 answers

How can I simplify my email situation? Believe me, there's a lot [more inside]
posted on Nov 6, 2006 - 6 answers

Is there a way to automatically forward mail in a Yahoo account to a Gmail account without upgrading to mail plus??
posted on Oct 19, 2006 - 3 answers

HELP! Job applications + gMail + Thunderbird + .PDF = screwed up attachments ...why!? what's wrong? [more inside]
posted on Aug 23, 2006 - 3 answers

I’m hoping that someone can provide me with some email tips, specifically for a Hotmail user. The main problem I’ve been having is finding a streamlined solution for all of my email accounts. Here’s my current setup/status: - 1 hotmail account (my main application) - 2 gmail accounts (used mainly for online sign ups and the like) - 1 work email account - 1 account through my ISP (time warner – roadrunner) - Multiple site accounts at joelneuenhaus.com - To wrap it all up, I use MS Outlook 2003 (work is accessed directly through an Outlook POP3 setup; my website accounts are forwarded to gmail and gmail is forwarded to hotmail; my ISP account is accessed via POP mail retrieval in Hotmail – a real pain – finally Hotmail is accessed through an Outlook HTML account) [more inside]
posted on Jun 7, 2006 - 11 answers

How do you mark specific replies in Gmail as unread? [more inside]
posted on Jun 5, 2006 - 10 answers

Sending email via Gmail using POP and Verizon ISP? [more inside]
posted on May 17, 2006 - 8 answers

It is possible to have two distinct email servers (for two sets of non-overlapping addresses) for the same domain? [more inside]
posted on Apr 25, 2006 - 14 answers

I've fallen far behind in archiving my gmail Inbox and would like to clear it out. How can I archive every single message (more than 4,000) that's in there now? [more inside]
posted on Apr 20, 2006 - 13 answers

Help me convince my mother to switch from aol to gmail. [more inside]
posted on Mar 24, 2006 - 18 answers

What is the best free web-based email service? [more inside]
posted on Mar 19, 2006 - 9 answers

How do I transfer all my email from one Gmail account to another Gmail acocunt? [more inside]
posted on Mar 1, 2006 - 7 answers

What labels do you use in Gmail? I feel like I have too many labels for my Gmail account and there is too much overlap between them. What are the best sets of labels? [more inside]
posted on Mar 1, 2006 - 13 answers

I have a Gmail account and a university email account (IMAP), both configured through OSX's Mail (the IMAP is only for sending mail; all incoming mail comes through the Gmail account). Lately, none of my email has been showing up in Mail (I know this because I've started keeping Gmail Notifier on the menubar as a double-check). It's not just that it takes a while to collect; it just never actually appears in my Mail.app inbox. I've double checked all my settings against Google's instructions, and even removed and re-added the mailbox. Any ideas as to what could have gone wrong and how I could fix it?
posted on Feb 27, 2006 - 4 answers

I dutifully label "conversations" in Gmail, and would now like to e-mail everyone with whom I've ever corresponded with on one such labeled topic. Is there any way to automatically generate a huge cc/bcc list from all the conversations under a label?
posted on Jan 28, 2006 - 6 answers

My Gmail account has been Joe Jobbed... anything I can do about it?
posted on Jan 14, 2006 - 9 answers

I am working on an application that will send an html-newsletter. It looks great in thunderbird or Outlook, and like crap in Gmail or Hotmail, which a lot of the recipients use. The template uses css, which is included in the headers of the message (not linked). What is the common wisdom about html-email that looks good in Hotmail and Gmail? Is there any way to keep the CSS or do I have to start over from scratch? [more inside]
posted on Dec 5, 2005 - 11 answers

Is it possible to set up Hotmail to only display unread messages? [more inside]
posted on Dec 2, 2005 - 6 answers

I have an awful lot of email filtered/labelled and filed within Gmail. When I download it via POP using Thunderbird, is there any way of it automatically going into specific folders within Thunderbird? :)
posted on Nov 30, 2005 - 3 answers

Gmail question: having just got over my excitement over the "send as" funtion, has anybody else now lost this? am using mac/firefox, but have also tried on pc/IE/FFX and mac/safari to no avail.... anybody know what's going on...?
posted on Nov 6, 2005 - 13 answers

How do I auto- forward a copy of all emails received and sent to gmail? I use Windows XP with Outlook Express and I have discovered it doesn't seem to have this function available. I would be willing to switch apps if one could automatically forward a copy of everything I send out to my gmail account and also copy and forward all incoming mail to my gmail. I want to still primarily use a pop3 email client, but send a copy to gmail for archiving purposes. Any ideas on the best way to get this done?
posted on Oct 13, 2005 - 8 answers

My email is spazzing out! I use IncrediMail at home to get my Hotmail, Yahoo and GMail messages. Every few weeks, (more often recently) every email in all three accounts will download AGAIN into IncrediMail. [more inside]
posted on Oct 7, 2005 - 2 answers

How can I backup my existing Gmail inbox locally, so I can search and access my messages offline? [more inside]
posted on Sep 24, 2005 - 6 answers

I recently started forwarding my e-mail from my university account to GMail. I read it in Thunderbird and when I reply, it replies from my GMail account, since that's the one it was most recently sent to. Can I make the reply come from my school account by default? [more inside]
posted on Sep 2, 2005 - 8 answers

Has anyone written a tool that lets you manage multiple Gmail accounts? I'm envisioning something similar to the Gmail notifier, that lets you log on to 3+ accounts at once and easily check them.
posted on Jul 15, 2005 - 15 answers

Does anyone know how I can automatically BCC an email address when I send email with GMail? [more inside]
posted on May 16, 2005 - 0 answers

I love Google mail, but I also love my email address. Is there a way I can use gmail as the client for my email (accessible via POP or IMAP) so I can have both?
posted on Apr 18, 2005 - 12 answers

In the last couple of weeks Gmail's normally-astute spam filtering has totally given up the ghost in one specific area: stock spam. It seems like every single stock spam slips past the filter and ends up in my inbox. At the moment every other time I get a new email it comes with a subject like "Leading auth0rity On l0w priced st0cks". Anyone else having the same issue? Has Gmail's spam filter started to show cracks?
posted on Apr 13, 2005 - 12 answers

I have gmail. Is it possible for people using applications like Eudora, Outlook, etc. to know if/when I have "opened" and read emails they have sent to me?
posted on Mar 14, 2005 - 7 answers

How can I save a Gmail email to my hard drive? [more inside]
posted on Feb 24, 2005 - 8 answers

Broken Gmail account: I have GmailStatus installed which tells me i have 4 new messages, but whenever I try to open my inbox it tells me that "[my] session has expired. Please sign in again." Has anyone found any resources for fixing or reporting a problem with Gmail?
posted on Jan 31, 2005 - 7 answers

My friend cannot send emails from his .mac address to my .gmail address. We can send emails back and forth routing to/from different addresses, so it's not our accounts individually. Anybody else have this problem?
posted on Jan 12, 2005 - 8 answers

I have taken specific care not to let my gmail address fall into the hands of anybody besides people I deal with in person- friends and family and such- and after several months of having this account be spam-free, today I finally got a few. How on earth do they find me?
posted on Dec 5, 2004 - 34 answers

GmailFilter: Is it just me, or does Gmail's spam-filtering engine occasionally (and sometimes regularly) just give up the ghost? I have a legacy personal email account dating back from the dark ages which receives over 300 emails a day, 95% of which is spam. I used to pull this mail down into Outlook and use SpamNet to filter it, but I recently set the legacy account to redirect through my Gmail account, which normally catches all but about 5% of the spam - Result! However, I find that Gmail regularly (about once a week) decides to let another 5-10% of the spam through - and in the last couple of days it seems to have fallen over completely (i.e. I am getting new spam every minute or so). Anyone else notice anything funny going on?
posted on Nov 25, 2004 - 12 answers

i just got my gmail account (yay-no, i have no invitations to give out) and want to use it to manage all my accounts.

1. any recommendations for good freeware to forward yahoo mail without the subscription?
2. will i be as happy as i think with gmail?
posted on Nov 17, 2004 - 15 answers

I've read on several sites that Gmail is offering POP access. I can find nothing on their site about it. Can someone tell me how this works?
posted on Nov 10, 2004 - 6 answers

Is there an easy way to download my gmail messages to Apple Mail (bearing in mind I'm a computer dunderhead)? I've tried creating a gmail account in Mail; but when I use Mail to check gmail, Mail prompts me for my gmail account password - and then nothing happens.
posted on Oct 14, 2004 - 6 answers

I'm a current GMail user, and I just got my first invite to give away. I know a couple of people who might like one, but I want to contact them before sending it, since I know if they reject it, I don't get it back. My question: How long will the invite sit in my GMail inbox, awaiting dispersement?
posted on Aug 23, 2004 - 26 answers

gmail: i've been using it for a few weeks now and have made it my primary e-mail repository. The only thing it lacks for me, though, is the ability to be notified (on the Windows desktop) when new mail comes in. Anyone aware of software to handle this task?
posted on Jun 8, 2004 - 9 answers

GMail: How reliable is it so far? Has anyone noticed glitches? Has anyone else sent a message to multiple addressees and had only the first addressee of the list (separated by commas) receive the e-mail? Just how beta do you think it is right now?
posted on May 18, 2004 - 15 answers

Evidently, everyone and their mother has a gmail account and is posting screenshots. Any idea how those of us who aren't even related to everyone might get invited?
posted on Apr 11, 2004 - 12 answers