Matevž Gačnik's Weblog

Gmail is wonderful. It gives you around 1GB of storage space for no-spam email. It can give you even more.

How I use it:

When I get my mail to my laptop, I do not delete it from the server
When I get mail on my main machine, I have it setup so that messages are deleted after a month of residing on the server. Yes, Outlook has this option. This gives me more than enough time to grab the messages from the server with my laptop, before they are deleted.
I have a message rule on my main machine which forwards all incoming messages to my Gmail account

Why?

I love having all messages stored. And I have everything stored on my main machine. But, since Gmail has 1GB of fast-search-capable storage I prefer browsing through my mail using remote Gmail than my local Outlook. Implicitly I get web access to all my email.

We're probably more that three years away from achieving this on our local machines.

Categories: Other | Personal

Monday, 30 August 2004 21:09:20 (Central Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)

Comments

Friday, 03 September 2004 12:19:58 (Central Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)

Did you try the Lookout (http://www.lookoutsoft.com/Lookout/) search add-in for Outlook? It works much faster than default Outlook search.

Peter Jausovec

Friday, 03 September 2004 12:23:23 (Central Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)

I did. I liked it, but it's still an add-on. :)

Matevz Gacnik

Wednesday, 15 September 2004 03:17:45 (Central Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)

This comment is very belated; but if you still have a Gmail invitation I would appreciate it.

Brent Jacquemart

Tuesday, 21 September 2004 07:35:18 (Central Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)

Gmail does not support pop3 (http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10350&query=pop3&topic=&type=f), so I wonder how do you access that mail from your main machine without using a browser...

Daniel Cazzulino

Tuesday, 21 September 2004 08:21:49 (Central Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)

Daniel,

I don't. I only use web based front end, whenever necessary.

Regards,
Matevz.

Matevz Gacnik

Thursday, 09 June 2005 08:30:49 (Central Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)

I have been using it when I have Corrupted dbx and Outlook express wont open. Outlook Express more stable and secure than other programs.

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