Gmail POP Fetch

2007-03-04 08:53 | Filed Under Network, Software |

今天一登录Gmail就发现右上角New Features!的提示

Get mail from other accounts
Now Gmail can check for the mail you receive at your other email accounts. You can retrieve your mail (new and old) from up to five other email accounts and have them all in Gmail. Then you can even create a customized ‘From:’ address, which lets you send messages from Gmail, but have them look like they were sent from another one of your email accounts. Please note that you can only retrieve mail from accounts that have POP3 access enabled. Learn more

This feature is currently only enabled for a limited number of users. We’re working on making it more available soon. Look for it in the ‘Accounts’ tab in Settings.

有了这个功能以后，只需要通过Gmail就可以管理所有邮箱的信件了（当然需要邮箱支持POP3支持），好像和RSS订阅异曲同工，还可以设置将收到的邮件保存到特定标签。配合GTalk就可以把Gmail当成一个邮件客户端使用了，例如提醒新邮件到达通知到桌面。

在导入新的账号时，自动会提示是否将新地址加入到“Send mail as”，如果选择是就会发送一封验证邮件到该邮箱账号，这也是为了防止被利用发垃圾邮件。当通过验证后，在撰写新邮件的界面就可以选择以哪个账号作为发件人了。

利用Gmail的超大容量和方便的功能，我准备抛弃使用以久的foxmail了，只要有网络随时随地都可以查看所有历史邮件。

ps.要想获取该功能必须先把Gmail语言设置成英文，google啥时候才能不厚此薄彼呢