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June 12, 2009
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17 comments :

louist said...

yes, but there's that old annoying "on behalf of" problem. it's been "being worked on" for quite a few months now... i know nothing about programming, but is it that difficult to include smtp server support? =/

June 12, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Mark Haferkamp said...

I know a fair bit of programming in general, but not so much about SMTP. That said, I'm guessing it's not so much that it's hard to do, but that it's hard to do efficiently. Though I can't see why it'd be any less efficient than POP, especially when most users receive far more than they send.

June 12, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Unknown said...

If you're a college grad and you didn't already know about GMAIL and all of its wonderful tricks, I'd question whether or not your degree was real or not.

June 13, 2009 at 8:46 AM
Ferk said...

Something that has happened to me frequently is that when I'm answering to some mail written by some teacher/student sent to my University address I sometimes reply without looking at my "From:" field.

This means that I reply using the Gmail address, instead of the University address. And that's a bit of a burden. It would be nice to have a Gmail Labs feature to make the "From:" field behave in a smarter way.

That beings said, Gmail is awesome.
Thanks

June 14, 2009 at 4:13 AM
Mark Haferkamp said...

When I tried using the custom "From:" address for replying, my school's server rejected it, so I'm forced to use my Gmail address form the custom "From:". I've been doing that for half a year now and no one seems to have noticed yet.

June 14, 2009 at 12:22 PM
Unknown said...

To Ferk:

There is an easy way to solve that problem (if I'm understanding you correctly) - If you go to your Gmail settings, and then go to "Accounts and Import," you will see under the "Send Mail As" section that you have the following option:

-Reply from the same address the message was sent to

-Always reply from default address


If you select the first option, it will do just what it says, and that will allow you to not worry about sending from your gmail address when replying to an email sent to your university email address.

Hope that helps!

June 15, 2009 at 8:46 AM
Vikhyath Reddy said...

Well.. can anyone tell me why google did not release an API specification for smtp with java ? Ive been wondering about this.

June 15, 2009 at 2:37 PM
ghst.me said...

Amazing how a simple thing like an @msu.edu email address is the difference between getting a reply and getting looked over. It's funny is th

June 17, 2009 at 5:41 PM
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July 11, 2009 at 2:50 AM
Unknown said...

I think too that google should try and combat the "on behalf of" snag. It makes you look unpropessional if not a bit shaddy.

The only gripe with gmail, which I love.

July 11, 2009 at 2:51 AM
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