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[Andrew Tarpinian]

On Nov 13, 2009, at 12:42 PM, Peter Korsten wrote:

> Andrew Tarpinian schreef:
>
>> On Nov 13, 2009, at 1:07 AM, Peter Korsten wrote:
>>
>>> Nah, it makes sense, though. I've built my e-mail around GMail  
>>> now. On
>>> the desktop, I use Thunderbird; on my mobile, the mobile web site
>>> and at
>>> work iGoogle/GMail.
>>
>> so what do you forward your other emails through gmail?
>
> I use GMail as a POP3 and SMTP server. (Did the same for my wife, for
> that matter.)
>
> So all my e-mail gets forwarded to my GMail address, and because I use
> their SMTP server as well, all my e-mail (both sent and received) is
> stored on GMail, and always accessible.
>
> For my wife, I've used IMAP, since she uses a computer at home, one at
> work, and one of those nifty little laptops. It seems to work for her.

Well I think for me as far as my main work address the forwarding  
thing wouldn't really work. I think it would be too confusing, I will  
check it out though.

I set up my exchange address in the android mail app and while the  
push is great I may go back to imap. The mail app is just weird - like  
it does not sync my sent messages automatically for the exchange  
account, even messages I send on the phone! I have to sync it manually  
in the folder.

It's kind of sad that the iPhone mail app is more feature rich than  
the android one! and gmail is not an excuse, there are plenty of  
people that do not want to route everything through that. I wish  
someone would just write a really great mail app for android - what I  
don't understand is everyone bitches how apple's development is so  
closed yet their store kills the android marketplace in terms of great  
apps. Yes I LOVE certain apps in the android store that would never be  
possible on the iPhone in a legit way - downloader apps that integrate  
into the browser to download any file, emulators, file managers etc...  
But all that love and possibilities gets me frustrated that there  
isn't more - I guess it's because googles marketing can't touch apples  
in terms of making the store profitable for devs.