Manage @law email from gmail

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Now you can check and send @law.harvard.edu mail from gmail. It takes about 1 minute to set up.

1. First you need a gmail account, if you don't have one email dboyer@law.harvard.edu

2. Next you need to set your @law account to forward to gmail. Go to the CAMail account management page here

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3. Click on Edit Mail Forward List and type the name of the gmail account you want @law to forward to. Press 'ok' and log out.

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4. Log into http://www.gmail.com and click on settings in the upper right hand corner. then click on the accounts tab. In the Send Mail As area click add another email address. Type in your law address and how you want your name to appear.

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5. Press Next step>> and then Send Verification. That email will be sent to your law account and then get bounced back to your gmail inbox (if you did steps 1 and 2 properly). Click on that link inside the email.

6. Now when you go to compose there will be a drop down menu that allows you to send email from the account of your choice

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Outlook vs. Gmail

I'm now using Gmail rather than outlook to manage my email for several reasons

  • Outlook isn't a sustainable system, once you've used it for a couple years the program becomes outrageously slow sometimes taking several minutes to start up and shut down.
  • Gmail is more secure. I have a ton of emails that are extremely important. Using outlook means those emails are stored locally on my machine and are therefore subject to my clumsiness, forgetfulness and the vagaries of hardware life. In other words, I could drop my laptop, leave it somewhere, get it stolen or just have it's harddrive die :( (p.s. if you want help backing up your outlook system email dboyer @ law)
  • Gmail's interface is vastly superior to Outlook's. Gmail also has a vastly superior
  • Even if you think gmail is better one problem may be making the switch. If you already have a ton of emails
  • I have ideological opposition to using microsoft products, primarily because I believe they are shoddily programmed, imho, outlook is no exception. They store the outlook.pst file in a way that makes it difficult to use by other systems.
  • Gmails label system is better than outlooks folder system because one email can have more than one label.
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