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[Skittles]

I have a litte question here.

I have a number of email addresses now and want life to be simpler.

I have gmail and I'd like that to be my main addy, and was wondering how i could get my mail thats been sent to another address (example: someone sends something to the philreid@hotmail) is there a way i can get that to go to my gmail account instead?

bugger knows if you catch what i mean, but if somebody does, please tell us how

[...mole...]

not at the moment. but i read something on gmail that they may introduce that sort of service
for a small fee sometime in the future

[Skittles]

hmmmmm

im sure theres a service about already, i remmebr someone telling me about it, but just fuckin typical i forget

[Mac Atom]

You prolly know this already but what the hey

What aboot configuring Outlook to grab mail from both accounts? I reckon you can set them both up as POP3 accounts

[...mole...]

hotmail and gmail arent POP3 last time i checked would be handy though so i could check my gmail inbox on my phone. think you can check them through outlook because they use SMTP . just guessing i personally dont like outlook express

[Skittles]

im not too keen on outlook myself, but cheers for the info guys

Use thunderbird, its quite good as a pop3/imap client, however if you are wanting to use hotmail, I think you are restricted to using outlook/ outlook express because its a webmail rather than pop (you can configure Yahoo to be picked up by a pop client), saying that this functionallity will stop next year as Microsoft try to combat spam originating from the Hotmail domain.

[che]

You can pick up almost ANY webmail email (even if it doesn't support pop3 access) by using a 'middle-man'

Go here: http://www.freepops.org

Download their program, and read the easy to follow documentation. It is very easy to set up your outlook express or ANY client, to recieve both hotmail AND gmail accounts. They have modules for all major web based mail accounts.

When hotmail stops offering access via outlook, you can assume that FreePOPs will be updated to work with the new system..