Easy Gmail support in Thunderbird 2

I have posted that Mozilla has released a new version of Thunderbird. Now, among many new features it gives very easy access to your Gmail. Google due to security and other reasons have changed the default POP3 and SMTP ports with encryptions supported. The setup of Gmail in E-Mail clients always has been difficult, with the new version of Thunderbird, this is not true anymore!

With this new feature many people can make good out of Gmail with more then 2GB space and POP3 access with Thunderbird.

Here’s the screenshot of that:

Gmail setup in Thunderbird 2
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April 22, 2007 | Filed Under Open Source, Software reviews 

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6 Responses to “Easy Gmail support in Thunderbird 2”

  1. m on April 23rd, 2007 1:45 am

    is it possible to sync (any) email client with gmail? i.e my sent emails (from the email client) appear exactly the same in gmail? although don’t think it’s possible with pop3 and smtp.

  2. admin on April 23rd, 2007 1:54 am

    Dear m,
    I wondered myself about this, and quickly tested out with Thunderbird. Yes it keeps a copy of your sent items in Gmail even if you sent out using Thunderbird.

    However, this is related to Gmail’s handling of E-Mails. Gmail provides POP3 in the manner of IMAP, i.e. all your E-Mails stays in both sides - client and server. Of course unless you delete them. So if you planning to use some E-Mail clients with Gmail go ahead and try!

  3. Green on April 23rd, 2007 7:40 pm

    Wow! Is that the same for windows version as well?

  4. admin on April 23rd, 2007 8:21 pm

    Yep, it sure is!
    You can find builds for Mac, Windows, UNIX, Linux!

  5. PatchLog on May 11th, 2007 1:47 pm

    Nice but still like pop3. I would have liked folders like imap. Maybe show labels as folders.

  6. New IMAP feature on Gmail - jusupov.com on October 25th, 2007 9:47 am

    [...] blogged before that Google’s Gmail uses POP3 for its users to download E-Mails from the servers. [...]

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