Hacking Gmail

Part I — Starting to Use Gmail
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2-1: Gmail Loader on Windows
Mark Lyon’s own instructions (
www.marklyon.org/gmail/instruction.htm
)
are perfectly good, so you don’t need to walk through them here. There are some
general problems to point out, however, which are a result of the shortcomings of
the way the system has to work. Because there is no direct method to import mail
into the system, Gmail Loader (and its clones) rely on just forwarding the mail
from your existing account. This means that all date information is based on the
time the mail was received by Gmail, not on the time you originally received it
elsewhere. There’s no real way around this, although it can be worked around if
you want to find mail from, say, one particular month: Just use the search box to
look for it, or create a filter.
Setting Up Pop Access Inside Gmail
Log in to Gmail and click on the settings link at the top-right of the screen. Once
there, click on Forwarding and Pop. You should see a screen similar to Figure 2-2.
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Chapter 2 — Integrating Your Existing Mail
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2-2: The Pop mail settings inside Gmail
Setting Up Pop Within an Application
Full instructions on setting up the Pop mail access within individual e-mail 
applications are available directly from Gmail at 
http://gmail.google.com/
support/bin/answer.py?answer=12103
For expert users, the settings, shown in Table 2-1, are very simple indeed.
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