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Desktop or web-based email?
Mark J. Reeves | Dec 9 2007
After getting used to Gmail 3 years ago, I swore I'd stick to web-based email. With IMAP now available, I set it up last week in Apple's Mail client on my desktop to integrate better with offline storage, emailing links, etc, and found myself changing my ways. It wasn't easy: The initial download took forever and I had to work at getting Apple's Junk Filters to cooperate. (I.e., still work on the 2 POP accounts I check in Mail while leaving Gmail's already filtered mail alone). I'm a convert. I used to open a browser window with three tabs: Google homepage, RSS, and Gmail and check it throughout the day. Now I'm in Mail only when I need to be, and ignore RSS and news until it occurs to me to catch up. I did really like the Gmail interface, with conversations, shortcuts, etc, but I've been trying to make Safari my full-time browser and it wasn't playing nice. I've found a surge of productivity by sticking to the desktop. How do others find web-based vs. desktop email to impact their productivity? 55 Comments
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 So Gmail/Desktop people how do you do it?Submitted by robgnyc on December 11, 2007 - 5:08pm.
I've been thinking about migrating to desktop/webmail/imap solution for awhile from 12 years of POP based email and am wondering how exactly you do it? 1) Set up forwards on your web host to your Gmail account for all mail going to your domain? Do you mark it if you have multiple addresses at the domain? me@me.com, shop@me.com etc? 2) Set up Gmail with imap. 3) Set up your desktop client to check Gmail via imap. Is that it? How do you differentiate addresses? Or do you? Is there a way to archive all your current desktop mail on Gmail? What about your SMTP server? How does that work? Sorry to ask naive questions. I've been a desktop POP mail person for like 12 years and though I see the benefit of Gmail, moving over give me a bit of dizziness. » POSTED IN:
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