A mail fetcher is a software that retrieves mail from one or more POP3 mailboxes and sends it to another mailbox. Gmail
includes a mail fetcher, but this new feature is not yet available for everyone.
"Gmail allows you to fetch mail from any of your other, non-Gmail accounts. You'll be able to read email from up to 5 additional accounts, all in one place, and take advantage of all of Gmail's great features."
A new mail account will create a label with the same name, so all mail received from that account will have an easy-to-remember label. If you don't like that, you can change the label.
You can choose to leave a copy of retrieved messages on the server, use a secure connection (SSL) when fetching mail and automatically archive new mail.
The feature should be available in Settings / Accounts. If you have it, some screenshots would be appreciated.
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Digg. }
Update: Don't confuse this with other Gmail features: POP3 access (retrieve your Gmail messages with a client that supports POP3) and customization of the From address (send mail from a different address). Also, it's worth noting that Yahoo Mail has this feature.
Labels: Gmail
said on December 9, 2006 8:33 AM PDT:
"Yahoo Mail has this feature." I think only in the paid version, correct?
No, Yahoo lets you
add POP3 accounts in the free version (not even the beta version). To change the From address so you can just use Yahoo Mail to manage all your accounts, you need Yahoo Mail Plus.
In my Yahoo Mail Beta, I can find this in Options / Accounts.
said on December 9, 2006 8:48 AM PDT:
This is confusing, because already Gmail has an option that it says you can forward the messages from another e-mail to gmail and also use reply as an option to send e-mails with the same e-mail address we are forwarding from. This is already there, so what is the difference in this new feature? I thought it will be like Outlook, with each accounts shown separately.
said on December 9, 2006 8:56 AM PDT:
Any idea when gmail will have this rolled out to the rest of the world?
Anonymous sez:
This is confusing, because...Gmail lets you forward mail to other accounts, but this doesn't have anything to do with receiving mail from other accounts that DON'T HAVE forwarding.
Think about it. You have an email account from your ISP: anonymous@isp.com, but you don't use too much. Unfortunately, some of your relatives write you there. Your main account is at Gmail. Your ISP account doesn't have forwarding.
So how do you get mail from your ISP account to Gmail?
hotspot said on December 9, 2006 9:17 AM PDT:
This is great news!
Although there are pop3 forwarding emails Gmail would be nicers, since it becomes all-in-one solution.
Interesting matter will be the spam filtering. As of now all services extracting external POP3 DO NOT scan for viruses or spam.
ps
I still don't have the feature enabled
adrianski
said on December 9, 2006 9:35 AM PDT:
Fetch or retrieve, the dog does the same thing.
said on December 9, 2006 9:53 AM PDT:
# Click Settings from the top of any Gmail page.
# Click Accounts.
# In the Get mail from other accounts section, click Add another mail account.
On a Mac Powerbook I see no text "Get mail from other accounts"
Not available yet on Mac?
If so, mention it on your blog page.
And the information page:
said on December 9, 2006 3:30 PM PDT:
this is really great!!!
a feature i have always wanted.
now i have forwarded my mail to my gmail account and have set gmail to send as that account. this solves that workaround.
only problem is, i don't have it yet :(
said on December 10, 2006 9:25 PM PDT:
When will I get this feature?
I don't have this feature either, but someone from Google said it is slowly rolled out to everyone.
said on December 14, 2006 5:55 AM PDT:
Need the mail fetcher, try changing your Language preferences to English (US) I was using English (UK) and was missing many options but after the switch got lots more.
said on December 14, 2006 6:41 AM PDT:
ionut, you can still access pop3 accounts from yahoo beta. under the yahoo logo, click the arrow beside the check mail button, and you will have the pop3 accounts listed to check and fetch the mail.
what i don't like is that you have a maximum of only 3 accounts, and no spam filtering. also that you have to check the mail on demand instead of it coming automatically. i'm sure there's a way around.
said on December 14, 2006 5:26 PM PDT:
Hi Alex,
I think Yahoo only allows POP3 in yahoo.co.uk domain. I got an Yahoo account with .co.uk and I was able to use Forward and POP3 to my Gmail.
However, my girlfriend uses yahoo.com domain. And, that forwarding and POP3 functions are disabled. So sad.
said on December 24, 2006 12:07 PM PDT:
Alex:
I know Yahoo has the POP retrieval feature, but Gmail's "Mail Fetcher" functions differently.
In Yahoo, you have to manually hit the "Check Pop mail" or some extra button whereas in Gmail it checks and pull the email periodically without you having to click the check pop mail button.
One big advantage is the new email will automatically be there when you log on to gmail without worrying that sometime you'll forget about the extra "check pop mail" button.
Shrestha
mejason69 said on February 7, 2007 8:21 AM PDT:
I would truly love to see gmail be able to check another gmail account via pop3. Now you can send emails as if they came from another gmail account, but you can not check a gmail account via pop3 from another gmail account.
This would be nice so that i do not have to sign into two different accounts, sign into one and it checks both, other than that gmail is the bomb!
Jason said on February 8, 2007 10:11 AM PDT:
I was surprised to find this added to my gmail account, and was more surprised when I couldn't find it on a friends account...
here are a couple screen shots...
I tried to set up POP3 retrieval in my Yahoo account and it didn't work. I got a message about the mail server not accepting the "last" command. Then I went and checked Gmail. Lo and behold, it has it and it works. Beautifully. I'll be surprised if it isn't widely available soon. There is still some room for improvement though. Right now you can't sethow often gmail checks the other accounts. I think it's once an hour. You can check manually but that's a pain. LOL. Overall, it's a great feature.
said on March 20, 2007 10:02 AM PDT:
Anonymous said:
"Need the mail fetcher, try changing your Language preferences to English (US) I was using English (UK) and was missing many options but after the switch got lots more."
Thanks, I tried this and it works!
said on May 31, 2007 11:48 AM PDT:
HI, i tried this lovely feature but it is not working, i set it up correctly, i see that the mails are being sucked into gmail as they disappear from my other account but i dont see these mails in my account, they just disappear into thin air. Whats happening? Did i do something wrong? Any help wud be great.
Thanks
Delhi said on June 29, 2007 11:06 AM PDT:
I only wish I could set the number of minutes between each time it checks the incoming POP3 mail accounts - sometimes it is 20 minutes apart or more.
Emilie said on September 1, 2007 9:19 PM PDT:
I would like to know how to retrieve mail from Archived mail. I need to look back at some e mail but don't know how to get to us. Clicking on "Archive" doesn't do it. Can someone tell me? Thanks, Emilie at
EmilieLaFave@gmail.com
emilie, you need to click on "all mail" on the left side. they should all be there, and there should also be a button that says "send to inbox"
Nilam said on July 9, 2008 5:27 AM PDT:
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Joe said on September 4, 2008 10:16 PM PDT:
How about pull out "Check mail now" for POP3 to the 1st page of Gmail?
Skandalouz said on November 10, 2008 12:46 AM PDT:
I'd also need a button "Check mail now" for POP3 on the 1st page. It would be great!
gt_singh said on March 23, 2009 5:18 PM PDT:
google is nappy rash.....
said on April 5, 2009 3:43 PM PDT:
Any ideas on fetching mail from iopener? It's on an IMAP system.
