Hacking Gmail

12 Part I — Starting to Use Gmail

FIGURE2-1: 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.