Gmail and Mac functionality? Tips, tricks, apps?

I thought that there was a hack out there that let you use gmail as if it was a pop account....? I'll have to look for it and let you know.

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I am using gcount and I really like it. The best would be if it worked with mail.

Just as Apple included MS Exchange Server functionality with Mail in Panther, I wonder if Tiger might offer some web-mail functionality stuff so that people can do hotmail and gMail and yahoo and whatnot without having to go on the web. Hell, I'd go for it if Mail put a Safari window in the app, I just don't like having to keep another window open and keep clicking Get New Mail.

noahsnyc said:

Also, I was dissappointed to find that Gmail's keyboard shortcuts have no functionality with Macs...

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They work for me, in both Firefox and in Safari. Have you went into "Settings" and turned them on?

Some keyboard settings are context sensitive, meaning they won't work except in particular windows (i.e. viewing a particular message). It's possible the ones you've tried weren't applicable to the screen you were in.

noahsnyc said:

Also, I was dissappointed to find that Gmail's keyboard shortcuts have no functionality with Macs...

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They keyboard shortcuts work just fine. Make sure they're turned on.

EDIT: Beaten to the punch.

Some Gmail loader stuff at: http://www.marklyon.org/gmail/gmailapps.htm

Here's a handy little app for Gmail users that lives in your menubar and checks for new mail periodically - link to the app.

If you happen to use Yahoo! Mail also, YMail provides much the same functionality.

noahsnyc said:

After playing around with it forthe past couple of hours, all I can say is...Can't someone please get a POP hack going for it??

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http://libgmail.sourceforge.net

http://libgmail.sourceforge.net

I was wondering if there is a step by step to


thank you

noahsnyc said:

For any of us lay-people, is there a "set-by-step" on how to use this package of code?

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I started writing up some instructions when I saw this message, and realized that all I would do is confuse people who aren't used to Unix -- there are a few steps to make it run automagically.

So, I decided to look at how hard it would be to turn this into a clickable Mac application, and lo and behold, that's wicked easy, since OS X comes with Python.

Please bear with me for a few hours while I make things a little prettier and do a little bit of testing.

Guys, check out GMail to Mail!

GMail to Mail is a application that lets you take your e-mail from you gmail account and view it through the Mail application made by apple.

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iMeowbot said:

I started writing up some instructions when I saw this message, and realized that all I would do is confuse people who aren't used to Unix -- there are a few steps to make it run automagically.

So, I decided to look at how hard it would be to turn this into a clickable Mac application, and lo and behold, that's wicked easy, since OS X comes with Python.

Please bear with me for a few hours while I make things a little prettier and do a little bit of testing.

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Thanks iMeowbot.

I'm hoping to find a way of using gmail with Entourage rather than Mail.

This is for basically any mail program that can speak POP3 (which is, pretty much any Mac mail program).

It works for me. You may or may not be so lucky. Read the readme. It's guaranteed to destroy the world, possibly including your mail too, so don't be upset if anything bad happens. remember, Gmail itself is in beta test, you shouldn't be relying on it for anything important.

There is a disk image in the zip file, with libgmail rearranged to make it less painful for Mac users.

Good luck, you'll need it.

[More notes: This is really for Panther only, okay? And if you did something weird like not install the BSD subsystem, you might be missing needed things. Oh yeah, and GPL stuff: control-click on the app and show Package Contents to retrieve the source code, if you want it ]

solaris said:

Guys, check out GMail to Mail!

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I tried it, and I didn't like the fact that the apps "Gmail_POP_Server" and "Gmail_SMTP_Server" have to be forced to quit when I log out or restart. I decided to remove it for this reason. If someone could fix this issue (make the servers respond to quit events from the OS) I'd use this app.

iMeowbot! I am in awe. Just ran your little piece of magic and it works smoothly! (tried Gmail 2 mail) before but never managed to get it working)
I'm afraid I'm kinda blond when it comes to programming and haircolour

ThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyou (and oh yeah, my employer could do with some impolite letters)

DEATH TO OLD HOTMAIL ADDRESS! woohoo

-Squirrel

it works

imeowbot...dude...that's awesome...dude...

Has anyone else had the problem that GMail's Contacts list doesn't seem to want to retain changes? I tried adding multiple email addresses to a single contact, and it lost all the changes after giving me a message saying I hadn't saved them (when I'd clicked to save changes more than once)!