Ideas17 Mar 2008 12:03 pm
Currently, I have at least 7 e-mail accounts, of which, I regularly use three. There are plenty of desktop e-mail clients that will allow me to use IMAP to combine all of these applications into a single e-mail inbox, but why isn’t there a service that allows me to have all of this “in the cloud”. I hate it when I am at a different computer other than my own and have to install my mail software and set up 7 different e-mail accounts, or visit 7 different pages in order to get my e-mail. Why isn’t there a web 2.0 e-mail client? I would even pay a small monthly fee in order to use this service!
Are you serious? Gmail imports all my mail (3 accounts + gmail itself). I switched to “the cloud” a long time ago and haven’t looked back.
That said, no I don’t know of anything which implements all the various email protocols completely. However, on this point I still blindly support whatever portion of functionality the gmail team thought was important
Interesting, didn’t know GMail offered this. I looked into it, but they only support up to 5 additional, and use POP, which will delete all the e-mail off of my normal account. I usually don’t want to use POP because I want to keep information in the cloud, but if it’s going from one cloud to another…
Gmail offers IMAP as well. You should def look into it. I’m surprised you haven’t!
@Luke, GMail offers you to access your mail using IMAP (which I use heavily), but not access another non-gmail account with IMAP.