“Gmailify” your e-mail inbox to get all the benefits of Gmail without using Gmail

You'll get spam protection, better inbox organisation, and more.

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[mrsilver]

Makes sense for three reasons:

1. Google can give visibility of the capabilities of Gmail to non-Gmail users and, hopefully, use that as a showcase to persuade users that the grass is greener if they switch to Gmail.

2. Google gets access to email content that they wouldn't have normally seen - which can then be sent to their servers for data mining.

3. Users who want a consolidated inbox split across multiple common email providers can do so, without having to have separate mail apps (which, in cases such as OEM variants, don't work as well). Those users who don't, can continue to have separate mail apps.

 

[scoobie]

Oooo. That could have tricky implications for law enforcement if the mail providers are in different jurisdictions. You know the MS mail servers in Ireland tussle.

 

[Ryuji]

Yeepee, one more way for Google to spy on people's emails and send them ads. /s

 

[boondox]

Hmmm; interesting.

I know some people already forward their personal email through Gmail's servers (using Gmail as a spam filter).

I wonder how they'll be affected now with this service being provided only to "Yahoo! Mail, Microsoft, and Hotmail", if at all?

 

[boondox]

scoobie[/url]":1qc68zvi]Oooo. That could have tricky implications for law enforcement if the mail providers are in different jurisdictions. You know the MS mail servers in Ireland tussle.

Nah... Wouldn't they just legally knock down the easiest door/provider?

 

[Deleted member 1]

And with all those features you will get all the profiling and tracking that comes with gmail too, I bet. No thanks! What happened to 'Don't be evil'?

I only use my gmail for less-important stuff but thinking of moving off it altogether. No way would I give them access to my private email server.

 

[bigbadonk420]

Ryuji[/url]":14x6a9se]Yeepee, one more way for Google to spy on people's emails and send them ads. /s

How insightful.

 

[BobCov]

No thanks. Use your own gmail-like software and own your content instead of sending it to Google to be pawed through and monetized.

 

[Kevin de Bie]

I'd rather have them opening the possibility of using your own domain name with Gmail as a private user... Google apps does this but you can't just do that with your private Google account.
The fact you cannot use your own domain name (and have all the perks like a catch-all on anything before the @) is my primary reason for not using Gmail...