GMail + Thunderbird = Goodness
My official email (dims AT wso2.com) is forwarded to a new GMail account that i created explicitly for this email. My Thunderbird uses POP3 and SMTP to the gmail servers to send and receive email. The GMail is primarily for searching (and backup). i can read my email either via GMail or using Thunderbird. I like thunderbird because i can read my emails offline. When i send an email from Thunderbird, it automatically gets added to "Sent Items" in gmail as well. Only catch so far, if i send an email from GMail user interface it does not get into my Sent folder on Thunderbird. Only way around it is to CC myself so that i have a copy of that message reach my hard disk via thunderbird. So what did i do with all the email for the last 3 months is on my hard disk? I used GML to upload it. Thanks Mark. What's not to like about this setup?
PS: Anyone have a better suggestion for this kind of setup?
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I receive Gmail's sent-mail via pop (perhaps you have to use the same pop setting, "activate pop protocol only for messages received from now") and use filters in thunderbird:
if "from:" contains "my_name"
then put it in "sent-mail" folder
screenshot: http://www.flickr.com/photos/croco/64490776/
And voilà, it's right. I even have an alert when i sent something with gmail web interface (i used my "perso" inbox as recipient)
Posted by: Marc Lacoste | November 18, 2005 10:21 AM
Hi
Why not just have a filter that forwards all the mails in which the sender is you to sent mail?
Posted by: Karthik Gomadam | November 21, 2005 11:24 AM