Free Google Gmail for all

computerwoman

I have had gmail from the very beginning, its great, you can also get gmail to work with firefox 2.0 add ons such as gmail manager which puts all your gmail in one place, and gspace which is just like gmail drive, allows you to store stuff, I have loads of gmails and use them for different things, gee gmail

Omertron

pigeonpie wrote:

Wish it had the Reply, Forward buttons at the top of an email too as they are still just at the bottom, unless I am madder than usual. It's a long way down to click reply on some mails - I don't use keyboard shortcuts as can't remember them.
I do find some targeted ads a bit spooky but on occasions they've actually been useful too.

There's a reply button in the header of the email now where it says "xxx@gmail.com to me", alternatively you can press the "end" key on any web page to get to the bottom

greyster

If you mask your IP when applying, you can have a @gmail.com address.

Just use a browser which masks your IP.

As mentioned previously, @gmail.com should still work for you even if you applied for namehere@googlemail.com.

cas_lad

Hi, thanks for the info about gmail going "public". I don't understand how to create alternate addresses or accounts. Can someone point me in the right direction? For instance, If I am billbloggs@gmail.com, how do I create billbloggs+coupon@gmail.com. Or can I create an account called called billbloggs2@gmail.com.

Thank you in advance

David_B_2

Fast or what?

Just signed up and within 20 mimutes whilst I was still messing with the options and preferences I got my first SPAM with a attachment.

How do they get that so fast when I've not even used the account yet?

greyster

cas lad, you just sign up again. Pretend you never signed up before.

Just go to the sign up page mentioned on this thread and sign up again using a new address.

sra

cas_lad wrote:

Hi, thanks for the info about gmail going "public". I don't understand how to create alternate addresses or accounts. Can someone point me in the right direction? For instance, If I am [EMAIL="billbloggs@gmail.com"]billbloggs@gmail.com[/EMAIL], how do I create billbloggs+coupon@gmail.com. Or can I create an account called called [EMAIL="billbloggs2@gmail.com"]billbloggs2@gmail.com[/EMAIL].

Thank you in advance

You don't create differet addresses. What happens is that gmail ignores everything after the +, so when you're telling other sites your email address, you can make it up on the spot without telling gmail

So when you registered for MSE, you could have just given your address as billbloggs+mse@gmail.com without setting anything up.

The email would have gone straight to [EMAIL="billbloggs@gmail.com"]billbloggs@gmail.com[/EMAIL] because gmail just ignores the +mse bit.

Then if mse ever started spamming you, you could create a filter so that everything with billbloggs+mse@gmail.com in the to field would go straight to spam

Heinz

stevepa wrote:

I'd love a free G-Mail account guys but it's telling me I can't use my existing google user name to log-in to G-Mail and I can't seem to locate a registration area. Basically what do I have to do to get one???? Any advise greatly appreciated. Cheers, Steve.

Welcome to the MSE forums stevepa.

I'm sot sure whether anybody came back to you.

Ignore whatever google names or addresses you have already, just click HERE and set up a new account (the part of the address before the @ will have to be something nobody else is already using).

sra wrote:

So when you registered for MSE, you could have just given your address as billbloggs+mse@gmail.com without setting anything up.

The email would have gone straight to [EMAIL="billbloggs@gmail.com"]billbloggs@gmail.com[/EMAIL] because gmail just ignores the +mse bit.

Then if mse ever started spamming you, you could create a filter so that everything with billbloggs+mse@gmail.com in the to field would go straight to spam

That's fine for automated 'address-grabbers' but a human will quickly be able to work out what your real address is.

Sch4st4r

The only downside of those free email accounts is the amount of knowledge these guys store concerning you. Can you imagine what Gmail (in other words Google) knows about you ? Can you imagine that all your searches that you have done through Google are actually logged and possibly linked to your Gmail account. Everything that is for 'free' comes at a price really. Nothing is for Free.

greyster

I used to think like that sch4st4r, then you realise the high quality and feature rich services they [google] provide, is worth it.

gmail destroy all other email services

FYI ... everything you do on the internet is recorded by your ISP. It is a legal requirement.