Well, it’s all happening isn’t it. They say it never rains but it pours. Further to my increased love of all things Google I have just activated a Gmail account. The main reason for this is that my regular email address has been spammed to hell and back and I’m just sick of it. The other reason is that I am switching to ADSL2, which I mentioned in a previous post. Part of that is that I will need a new email address. Now silly me, it just occured to me that i have a central, nice and spam free address with the Big G, then if I change ISPs again it’s going to be a lot easier. I still have the momentous
task of switching all my email addresses in my multitude of providers, services and contacts that I need just to exist in my current form on the internet, but when all is said and done, I love it because I will only have to do the work once. Plus I can’t beat the 2.7G of storage Google is going to donate to the cause. Way to go Google.

Now further to this is another problem I have had. I am an afficianado of Thunderbird, the Mozilla Foundations, open source email client - and I’d like to get my gmail in my Thunderbird inboxes. I didn’t even know this was possible but I searched on Google and found a tutorial for configuring Thunderbird and Gmail for pop access, so that you can get you gmail on thunderbird.

Pretty cool hey?

You can find the complete instructions for configuring Thunderbird for Gmail at this nice little blog here. I told the guy I’d link to him, since it saves me having to write this tutorial myself. I couldn’t have done a better job.

Configuring Gmail and Thunderbird together

So here it is: How to configure Thunderbird for Gmail - or reading Gmail on Thunderbird - you know what I mean.