After going through Bashar’s post about Gmail, I went through my gmail features and found that I can configure my domain email account (@bloggylife.com) ;P (well upto 5 accounts), kind of centralizing everything into one place ;D
Settings -> Accounts -> Add a mail account you own
It is straight forward, but if you’re not sure, usually you can get the mail setting configuration from your domain help page. The thing I liked, there is an option to automatically label your emails that are retrieved from your domain account to single them out.
In hotmail, which I use for personal and business, because these accounts go way back and all my contacts know them. Though I don’t frequently use messenger, but it’s a tool to stay in touch. I have rules set to sort out my incoming mails into folders based on sender, domain, etc. I haven’t used labels/folders in gmail yet, because there isn’t much to go through. My gmail is just used to stay in touch with the blogsphere .. for now ;D
One question is roaming through my mind and not quite sure of it, is there a possibility that this way, my blog emails are also filtered through gmail spam filters ;D The obvious answer should be no, the emails are just retrieved and whatever filtering that is supposed to happen, should be done at the original account servers. I’ll have to search for a definite answer.
#1 by Bashar on February 7, 2009 - 4:43 AM
Yes, this feature is available to both retrieve and send from other email addresses. However there is a security issue with sending from another email. Also, at my time it used to include in headers my original Gmail address, which exposed it to people I didn’t want them to.
Spam Filter: You I think it is doing it by looking at my Trash emails. Some are caught by my host email filter, others have no such indication,thus must be from Gmail filter
#2 by Marzouq on February 12, 2009 - 7:00 PM
The way I have it setup is a little different. I have my email system completely hosted at Gmail. I just login into mail.google.com/a/domain.com. You get up to 25 emails with a max of 7 GB each at this point, and there are a lot of features you can use, and all the Gmail Labs features but not the themes for some reason. Using the gmail interface is soooo much easier then any other interface. I have basically stopped using my hotmail except for reference emails or bulk emails, I check it at most once a month. Just go for the switch and shift people over to you gmail, much better.
#3 by Shaymaa on February 15, 2009 - 5:56 PM
Yep, I have the same setup Marzouq described and it works great.
#4 by Bashar on February 16, 2009 - 10:14 AM
@Marzouq @Shaymaa: I know of this domain host feature, but there is a common security risk with sending emails from another host, I read about it somewhere before.
Other thing is, the header info still contains my original email address, at least thats what happened to me. Do you have the same?