Comments on: Why I use GMail http://www.caperet.com/2007/04/why-i-use-gmail/ An eclectic mix of technology, news comment, and personal notes. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:55:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: fruey http://www.caperet.com/2007/04/why-i-use-gmail/comment-page-1/#comment-2482 fruey Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:00:09 +0000 http://www.caperet.com/2007/04/01/why-i-use-gmail/#comment-2482 Hi Karl, good to see you commenting here :-) I was back to using PINE before switching to GMail; Mutt on Windows doesn't cut it. My mail server for caperet.com was marking SPAM by adding [SPAM] to the subjet, so PINE could filter it on loading the Inbox. However, I also needed access from other machines via webmail, and the webmail app (an old version of SquirrelMail) available from my hosting provider www.sivit.fr has no way of automatically deleting messages based on a filter, so I'd have to manually delete SPAM (ouch). GMail allows you to set up sender addresses as you see fit, and allows you to reply automatically via the email address that the mail was sent to. It adds a certain level of spoofing security by sending you an email to the email address you set as your sender address, with a confirmation code you have to use to validate that address. Only after this validation can you send as that address. I'll send you an email from GMail as @caperet.com so you can check out the full headers; Google do it pretty clean, so that you can see it's from the @gmail.com interface, but the From: part is correct. -Fruey Hi Karl, good to see you commenting here :-)

I was back to using PINE before switching to GMail; Mutt on Windows doesn’t cut it. My mail server for caperet.com was marking SPAM by adding [SPAM] to the subjet, so PINE could filter it on loading the Inbox. However, I also needed access from other machines via webmail, and the webmail app (an old version of SquirrelMail) available from my hosting provider http://www.sivit.fr has no way of automatically deleting messages based on a filter, so I’d have to manually delete SPAM (ouch).

GMail allows you to set up sender addresses as you see fit, and allows you to reply automatically via the email address that the mail was sent to. It adds a certain level of spoofing security by sending you an email to the email address you set as your sender address, with a confirmation code you have to use to validate that address. Only after this validation can you send as that address.

I’ll send you an email from GMail as @caperet.com so you can check out the full headers; Google do it pretty clean, so that you can see it’s from the @gmail.com interface, but the From: part is correct.

-Fruey

]]> By: Karl Stanzick http://www.caperet.com/2007/04/why-i-use-gmail/comment-page-1/#comment-2481 Karl Stanzick Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:36:38 +0000 http://www.caperet.com/2007/04/01/why-i-use-gmail/#comment-2481 Excellent Simon. As an old dog who is still using PINE, my concern about moving to Gmail would be my "from" address. Can you configure Gmail to "send" differently depending on where the mail is from? Excellent Simon. As an old dog who is still using PINE, my concern about moving to Gmail would be my “from” address. Can you configure Gmail to “send” differently depending on where the mail is from?

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