Google quietly took another step in their ongoing quest for (virtual) world domination with the launch of Mail Fetcher.
The new feature allows Gmail users to retrieve email - new and old - from other webmail services within the Gmail interface. For example, you could set up your Gmail account to also aggregate mail from your Yahoo! and Hotmail accounts - or any other email address that supports POP3 access.
What does this mean for you? It means that you should:
- Add a Gmail address to your test list if you haven’t already. As this feature catches on - as it most certainly will - more and more
of your contacts will ultimately receive and read their email in the
Gmail interface. (For example, johnqcontact@yahoo.com really reads his email through his Gmail account.) - Design carefully and take particular care to ensure that your email communications render appropriately in Gmail.
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It appears that google’s mail fetcher doesn’t seem to work with yahoo! nor with hotmail. true?
Hi Max.
I admittedly do not use Mail Fetcher, so I haven’t looked at the service since I posted this article.
A quick Google didn’t yield any conclusive answers, other than the fact that any POP3 email account should work with the service.
Apologies that I’m not more helpful!
Eric
Hotmail does not use pop3. That’s why it doesn’t work. That access is only available with a paid hotmail accounct.