Google Opens Gmail To All 231
Reader Russian Art Buyer lets us know that GMail is now open for all ("Google Mail" in the UK). The service is no longer by invitation only. This welcome page shows an ever-increasing amount of storage available per user, currently about 2,815 MB.
Just checked... (Score:5, Informative)
annnd checked again... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Not really (Score:3, Informative)
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Re:Fastmail (Score:5, Informative)
Fastmail lets me use webDAV to access my file storage, and I just love IMAP/IDLE support. With Fastcheck installed that monitors my mailbox with IDLE, the notification often pops up before I get it on my Blackberry (PUSH-based), something Exchange has never managed to do at work.
I get loads of spam in my GMail even though I've never given it to anyone, which I think speaks for itself. 1 or 2 spams a week with Fastmail and I've had it for 8+ years.
Re:Just checked... (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Not really (Score:5, Informative)
I haven't read the CNN article linked here, but I did read the article on my Wii last night. The long and short of it is that signup is geographically limited. Just about everyone not in North America is now able to sign up without going through the text message routine. The Google spokepeople have promised that North America will follow "soon".
Hope that clarifies things.
old article (2004) and you need a cell phone.... (Score:3, Informative)
This is what Gmail says about signing up currently:
Can I sign up without the invitation code? Or without a mobile phone?
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=
Re:Playing the same game MS played (Score:5, Informative)
Just go to "settings"->"forwarding and pop" and select "Enable POP for all mail (even mail that's already been downloaded)". You can then download a copy of all the mail to your computer using a normal email client (You can choose to keep a copy on gmail). You can also get all mail automatically forwarded to an outside email address.
That makes it easy to switch email provider; I used it the other day to download a copy of all my email, just in case. It seems to me that Google has chosen not to lock in users, but to simply try retain customers by being better. Which is the way it should be, and which makes me more comfortable relying on google services in the future.
Regards, Thue
i love gmail (Score:5, Informative)
i'll be the first to admit that i am a pretty serious google fanboy and i haven't used a fastmail account so proceed with caution.
i have two public access unix accounts, one on SDF [lonestar.org] and one on hobbiton [hobbiton.org] (hobbiton stopped being public access like 6 years ago). two years ago there was a sudden astronomical increase in the amount of spam that i was getting on both accounts. both systems had not yet set up greylisting or some other anti-spam measures and so i was worried that i would have to abandon an email address that i have had for almost 10 years.
i got a gmail invite from a friend and set up my new account, and gmail has an option where you can choose to send mail as another account and make that the default method for sending mail, so i set up my gmail account to send as the two unix accounts and then added the gmail address to a .forward for each shell account.
so now i use gmail as the central store for all of my email. now that both shell accounts have graylisting and other spam filtering i take advantage of that PLUS gmail's ability to bucket spam, so i have not seen a spam email in something like 6 months. i could go back to the old way (i look really oldschool using ssh to check my mail with pine) but i have become so lazy and spoiled thanks to gmail that there is no real reason to go back.
so, if you want to keep your old address and switch to gmail, it is possible, provided your old provider has some means for you to forward your mail.
Re:Not really (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Not really (Score:5, Informative)
Give it a day or so, and you should see the non-invitation link.
Re:Just checked... (Score:4, Informative)
Does it now? I just launched IE to check it (easier than logging out of everything in Firefox) and the text above the login box said "Sign in to Gmail with your Google Account".
So I'd guess that yes, you can log into Gmail with your Google Account username and password.
And it doesn't ask for a cell phone or anything like it, either.
I just wonder if they're going to drop the invites altogether...
But I read somewhere below that the problem may be with you living in North America...
Yahoo Mail Beta blocks Linux (Score:2, Informative)
Brazil only (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Just checked... (Score:2, Informative)
marked "Sign up for Google Mail"
http://mail.google.com/mail/signup [google.com]
Could maybe be what you are looking for.
Re:Not really (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Surge in users? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:a nagging problem about gmail (Score:1, Informative)
Don't worry about your sent items. Mail that I send out is downloaded into my Outlook inbox. I then have a rule move it into the sent items folder.
GMail is popular (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Gmail doesn't work with tabs (Score:4, Informative)