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Is Gmail Fetcher Feature that Good?
Published by Chris | Filed under Tech, Web 2.0 | February 11th, 2007
There lots of rumors going around the internet that yahoo and Msn hotmail email accounts can only be accessed via POP with paid accounts. Gmail, fetcher feature was just recently announced by Google, where users will be able to read email from up to 5 additional accounts inside gmail inbox. Soon after google release include this comment on their help center page:
“Note that the email accounts you would like to fetch will need to support POP access. Some free email services don’t support POP access at this time.”
What a drag, if this this new feather can’t fetch yahoo or hotmail accounts… Gmail is not perfect after all. If anyone knows differently, please post a comment.
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Well, I have a yahoo.es account and I just configured it. However I had 68 messages on Yahoo and it only retrieved 34 messages. I am not being successful with yahoo.com accounts.
Now, I wonder who is not perfect Gmail or THE OTHER TWO.
BYE
I think that the issue is that companies like Yahoo charge for POP capabilities. Gmail could retreive if Yahoo would offer POP for free. There should be away around this someway. I’ve blogged about this here:
http://www.biztechie.com/2007/02/google_mail_fet.html
I decided to give this a try and while it took nearly the whole day to move around 600 emails it did work.
…
For the unread emails that is.
I have yet to test this but I believe that if you mark all your messages as unread it will fetch them. It appears that it only fetches new unread email from the POP server.
I’m off to attempt to move all 1,000+ of my emails to Gmail now.
I’ll post my findings on the subject here.