“Google Inc. opened up its Gmail Web mail service to a wider scope of users on Monday by randomly offering, for the first time, accounts to some visitors of the main Google.com page. Until Monday, to get a Gmail account, a user had to be invited to the service by either Google or an existing Gmail user,” Juan Carlos Perez reports for IDG News. “‘We just started (on Monday) offering Gmail accounts to a randomly selected sample on Google,’ said Marissa Mayer, Google’s director of consumer Web products. ‘It’s a natural step to leverage the wider user base of Google.com to grow Gmail.'”
Perez reports, “About one in 20 Google.com visitors are getting the Gmail account offer, Mayer said. ‘Based on the success of this one-in-20 scope, we’ll be ramping it up over the next couple of weeks,’ she said.”
Full article here.
Google has posted instructions for configuring Apple Mail for Gmail’s POP, or Post Office Protocol, which lets you download messages from Gmail’s servers onto your computer so you can send, receive, and manage your Gmail with Apple’s Mail. There’s no need to use the web-based Google Gmail, if you don’t wish to do so. Gmail doesn’t currently support IMAP access. Illustrated instructions for configuring Apple Mail here. We followed the instructions and they worked perfectly for us using Apple Mail 1.3.9 (v619/619.2).
Instructions for other email client applications here.
What’s new?? Got Gmail running in Mail.app for about two months now. Works great, accept the connection sometimes fails.
However, a friend says, that this problem is solved in Tiger, so…
We’ll have to wait.
Will this work with spymac mail too?
My friend and I just got gmail accounts and set up mail.app to work with gmail, except every time mail goes to connect to gmail, our passwords are rejected. Any idea how to fix this?
Thanks
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My password is getting rejected too. Running 1.3.9.
Triple checked all settings, not sure what’s wrong.
I’m confused… what’s different about Gmail?
If it uses POP, Apple Mail has supported that for a long time. Mail supports both POP and IMAP. These are two common e-mail standards (emphasis on standards). Why would connecting to Gmail from Mail be so… extraordinary. I fail to see the novelty.
Passwords are a different matter. There are a variety of password identification methods and from what I recall, Apple included the most common. I doubt Gmail uses a uncommon authentication scheme.
Ethan:
In the username box, be sure to put your username with “@gmail.com” on the end.
i.e. “joeuser@gmail.com” vs. “joeuesr”
I’ve been using Mail to check my Gmail since January.
No News here…
Ethan:
You have to enable your gmail account for POP mail, I had the same problem and spent 3 hrs going through the google help menu.
Just click on settings, Forwarding and POP, and click the check-box to enable POP.
Heh, I checked the site and got the invite…My account is already setup to use. Too bad I never will.
this is cool. i didn’t know gmail gave you POP access for free. i like that. i’ll have to set mine up when i get home.
Ray and Ethan:
1) In the username box, use the “@gmail.com” at the end.
2) In Gmail Mail Settings, after enabling your account for POP mail, click “Save Changes”.
will gmail still filter junk when set up for IMAP/POP? since I set up my gmail account my JUNK mailbox averages over 200 junk messages. I’d hate for all that to end up in my inbox in Mail if I go IMAP or POP.
Serigo already did that. Still getting rejected.
Hmmm… I’ve received several Gmail invitations over the last few months. So what? Why would I care to use Gmail? Of course, I run my own mail servers…
I don’t know if you have done it yet, but you have to go into the settings on the web-based gmail account and enable POP for the account. After that, the instructions they provide will work just fine.
for now Gmail only allows one account per IP address
You don’t need an invite, just go here… http://isnoop.net/gmail/ …and fill in the form. This site aggregates all the extra invites floating around and hands them out.
Thanks for the help everyone
I had @gmail.com in the username and clicked save changes, but I hadn’t enabled pop mail in the gmail settings. Thanks username!
i don’t remember what i did, but i got spymac working in mail.app too. i think it was hard to find the info on spymac, but maybe it’s easier now.