Anybody use Gmail?

divo

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I am thinking of getting a gmail account but it seems I must get an invite from someone who already has an account. Can someone invite me? (removed email) Thanks
 

Paul Moir

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Re: Anybody use Gmail?

One's coming your way now.<br /><br />They now have pop and SMTP access which makes it very useful for me. But they use a pop3s server not a pop3 server. When setting up your email client keep this in mind because they're totally different. (Well, different ports anyway)
 

Paul Moir

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Re: Anybody use Gmail?

Oh, that's why it's bouncing. Ok, I'll send it again. :)
 

divo

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Re: Anybody use Gmail?

thanks paul, sorry for the mistake. Have a great night
 

Bob_VT

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Re: Anybody use Gmail?

I use it. I enjoy it. I have a ton of invites if anyone needs one.<br /><br />I got my invite by asking here on iboats.<br /><br />Bob
 

divo

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Re: Anybody use Gmail?

I never did receive the invite. Not sure what happened. Did you send it last night? Thanks
 

divo

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Re: Anybody use Gmail?

Just recieved one from a different source. Thanks for the attempt.
 

Paul Moir

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Re: Anybody use Gmail?

That's strange. Only the first email to MSN bounced. Perhaps I triggered some sort of anti-spam system? Oh well, sorry to keep you waiting.
 

18rabbit

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Re: Anybody use Gmail?

Google mail. Free email account like yahoo or hotmail. Originally free for the asking while they were beta testing it, then no more accounts were allowed. Then Google opened up again for anyone willing to share their cell phone number with the option of specifying "never sent to my cell phone". Google is posturing to make a move on wireless data sharing, hence the need for phone numbers. You can have your gamil (email) fwd to your cell phone. Anyone with gmail can refer up to 100 other people and those 100 folks will not need to give a phone number.<br /><br />Gmail comes with about 4gb of disk space. It has some powerful archive and search routines for organizing email msgs. I use gmail for my personal email, can be accessed anywhere from any computer at any time, and the msgs stay on Google's disk space, unless I choose to down load to my disk.
 

PuddleJumper

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Re: Anybody use Gmail?

I tried to sign up for Gmail but there is a problem with sms msg and CellularOne. The Gmail people say it's a prob with my cell ph carrier. Can I also beg an invite from one of you guys?<br />Thanks <br />email DJClow(at)Direcway(dot)com
 

Bob_VT

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Re: Anybody use Gmail?

deej you have one sent.
 

Paul Moir

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The invite system really helps with automatic account harvesting for spammers. Say a spammer sets up an account and uses that account to set up 100 others, and then uses the 100 accounts to start mass emailing spam. Google can then quickly cut all the accounts off from the head since they know the invitation hiearchy.<br />Notice how many usernames are available versus, say, yahoo?
 
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