set up email client to pull from gmail

Wig

How do I set up my email client to pull email from my Gmail inbox? And can it send the mail as though from gmail aswell?

Baldur

Wig wrote: »

How do I set up my email client to pull email from my Gmail inbox? And can it send the mail as though from gmail aswell?

See http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en_GB&ctx=mail&answer=12103 - POP/SMTP instructions for setting up to send & receive.

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en_GB&ctx=mail&answer=75726 - IMAP instructions.

Wig

The information given is for the [FONT=Courier New, Courier, mono][SIZE=-1]pop.googlemail.com

Is it different if the email is @gmail.com?
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robt_2

Wig wrote: »

The information given is for the [FONT=Courier New, Courier, mono][SIZE=-1]pop.googlemail.com

Is it different if the email is @gmail.com?
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No. Your email address works with both @gmail.com and @googlemail.com

barak

robt wrote: »

Your email address works with both @gmail.com and @googlemail.com

Agreed - both seem to work! What I don't understand is why - when both versions of the address work - new [?UK] user Fred Bloggs now has to register his address as fredbloggs @googlemail.com

Presumably another Fred Bloggs overseas, or wherever it is allowed, could not subsequently register as fredbloggs @gmail.com - so why can't the original one do so? :undecided

donny-gal

When overseas I tried to set my googlemail address up as a gmail address, and I could not have that name as it was taken, not a straight forward name so I think if you set it up here, then it uses in the gmail.
DG

Wig

barak wrote: »

Agreed - both seem to work! What I don't understand is why - when both versions of the address work - new [?UK] user Fred Bloggs now has to register his address as fredbloggs @googlemail.com

Presumably another Fred Bloggs overseas, or wherever it is allowed, could not subsequently register as fredbloggs @gmail.com - so why can't the original one do so? :undecided

UK users can't have @gmail.com because there was already a company in the UK using the @gmail.com server address, and they either didn't want to sell out to google or google just didn't offer to buy them out. Effectively a copyright exists in the UK for that address. I got my @gmail.com in the UK before they closed it down.

robt_2

Wig wrote: »

UK users can't have @gmail.com because there was already a company in the UK using the @gmail.com server address, and they either didn't want to sell out to google or google just didn't offer to buy them out. Effectively a copyright exists in the UK for that address. I got my @gmail.com in the UK before they closed it down.

If someone was using the @gmail.com 'server address' then gmail couldn't use it in other countries. It was due to a trademark dispute, but yourusername@gmail.com will still work.