Tagged with gmail

Importing contacts into gmail from Thunderbird and Yahoo mail

The first thing I wanted to try as part of my using gmail as my mail client experiment was importing all my contacts, half from Thunderbird and half from Yahoo mail. Gmail supports importing comma separated (CSV) lists and both Thunderbird and yahoo mail support exporting in that format so it’s pretty straight forward. I’ve just [...]
Published in Other stuff on Friday, April 25th, 2008

First impressions of gmail – maybe the end of desktop mail for me

Today I found out that gmail supports checking and storing POP3 mail and it made me wonder if I even need a desktop email client any more. It has everything I use in Thunderbird (sorting, filtering, searching, address book) with the big advantage of being on the network and therefore accessible from any computer. So for [...]
Published in Web development on Thursday, April 24th, 2008