Google Mail

ioscorpio

Has anyone noticed that in the UK Gmail is now Google Mail due to conflict over the trade name Gmail, so all new UK accounts will no longer [email]be @gmail.com[/email] but will be @googlemail.com

I'm glad I got mine before it changed. If anyone wants a Google Mail account I have 100 invitiations.

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en-GB/googlemail.html

[Deleted User]

Yes, noticed today. Apparently all applications after 19th October have been allocated @googlemail.com accounts rather than @gmail.com.

The number of invitations for distribution seems to have been reduced from 100 to 20, as well.

ioscorpio

Mine has not been reduced, I've still got 100.

sra

When I wanted a yahoo.com address rather tha a yahoo.co.uk , I just told them I was in the US and then after registration I wentb into options and changed my settings to UK content

Wonder if it's the same for google if you really want a gmail address rather than googlemail

[Deleted User]

iomexico wrote:

Mine has not been reduced, I've still got 100.

The invitations on existing gmail accounts have not been reduced, but the invitations for distribution on new googlemail accounts are less (well mine were, anyway!).

Hunnymonster

and it's widely reported that mail to both address@googlemail.com & address@gmail.com arrives regardless of which you are allocated.

sra

Hunnymonster wrote:

and it's widely reported that mail to both [email="address@googlemail.com"]address@googlemail.com[/email] & [email="address@gmail.com"]address@gmail.com[/email] arrives regardless of which you are allocated.

The only problem with that is if you tell everyone that your email address is [email="xxx@gmail.com"]xxx@gmail.com[/email] and they receive mail from [email="xxx@googlemail.com"]xxx@googlemail.com[/email] it's going to confuse them and their filters.

You are allowed to change the from field in gmail but last time I looked that was only available if you selected "English (US)" as your language (which seems to give you more options than "English (UK)" )

ioscorpio

SRA
I have tried opening another account to see if I could get a gmail account rather than a googlemail account, but it did not work. It came up as a googlemail account. Anyone know how I can get round it.

sra

iomexico wrote:

SRA
I have tried opening another account to see if I could get a gmail account rather than a googlemail account, but it did not work. It came up as a googlemail account. Anyone know how I can get round it.

Does mail from that account come up as from googlemail or from gmail?

My old account sends messages from gmail even though the account says googlemail at the top-left (I guess becuase I'm accessing it from a UK computer)

You could try setting up an account via somewhere like http://www.guardster.com/subscription/proxy_free.php to hide your location

I just tries it but it wouldn't let me access the invite in my yahoo mail because it doesn't support SSL with the Free proxy service

pennies2pounds_3

Hi all . Has anyone tried using google talk with their gmail account yet , or is it not available in the uk yet? TIA

ioscorpio

SRA
I could not get it to work either.
I opened a new yahoo account on the USA yahoo.com website and tried again and it still came on as googlemail rather than gmail, so I don't know if it is recognising my computer.