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T. M. Tracy

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Sep 5, 2005, 4:21:46 PM9/5/05
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Hey, incase anyone cares (not sure why you would)
tmt...@googlemail.com == tmt...@gmail.com

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Caleb

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Sep 5, 2005, 4:29:11 PM9/5/05
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yes this has been discussed. its because of the german guy who sued
google over the gmail thing.
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Caleb
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T. M. Tracy

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Sep 5, 2005, 4:31:53 PM9/5/05
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oh, really. See, I forgot about that...so, over in germany, they have
to @googlemail.com?

Caleb

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Sep 5, 2005, 4:59:55 PM9/5/05
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no, they dont have to, but accounts made in germany are technically
@googlemail.com ones i.e. the "from" shows that and thats whats in the
top right as the login name. but if they have the "accounts" tab in
settings, i suppose they can make it look like its from thier
corresponding @gmail.com one.

T. M. Tracy

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Sep 5, 2005, 5:42:55 PM9/5/05
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ah..

Jessica Lares

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Sep 5, 2005, 5:57:31 PM9/5/05
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Why'd he sue them?

~ JL
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Derek

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Sep 5, 2005, 6:03:29 PM9/5/05
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http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fnewsticker%2Fmeldung%2F61369&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

Todd Cameron Thacker

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Sep 5, 2005, 8:18:40 PM9/5/05
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Recently I wanted to sign up for a 15 day trial for a PR service that
required an email address that is not a "free" account like hotmail,
yahoo, gmail and the like.

Not wanted to tempt the spam devils, I wanted to use a throwaway
account, and it struck me that changing my X...@gmail.com to
X...@googlemail.com just might be a workaround...

It worked like a charm.
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Todd Thacker
editor, OhmyNews International
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Derek

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Sep 5, 2005, 8:25:52 PM9/5/05
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I just tested sending an email to myseld @googlemail.com and it never
came through.

Scott Villarosa

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Sep 5, 2005, 8:25:49 PM9/5/05
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Great tip. Also try mailinator, dodgeit and pookmail (all dot coms) for a
more disposable address.

T. M. Tracy

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Sep 5, 2005, 8:27:52 PM9/5/05
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yeah, derek, thats because of a "feature" in gmail. If you send a
mail to an address that ends up bouncing back to your gmail, gmail
will eat it. try sending the mail to another gmail account.

Derek

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Sep 5, 2005, 8:29:23 PM9/5/05
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I did try to anothe gmail account from mine.

Caleb

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Sep 5, 2005, 8:49:56 PM9/5/05
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hmm thats weird cause it just worked from me. i sent from my ISP to
my gmail acct and it went through.

Bastien Leblanc

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Sep 6, 2005, 7:25:00 AM9/6/05
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Hi,

Just a note, did http://www.googlemail.com worked one day?
I get
Error
InterScan HTTP Version 3.81-Build_1084 $Date: 04/06/2005 18:36:0048$

Connecting to www.googlemail.com: Host not found

It would at least need a forward to mail.google.com?



On 9/5/05, Caleb <cale...@gmail.com> wrote:
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Derek

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Sep 6, 2005, 10:39:20 AM9/6/05
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I'm surprised that google doesn't redirect people who go to googlemail.

T. M. Tracy

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Sep 6, 2005, 11:06:20 AM9/6/05
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they do. when I go to googlemail.com it takes me to mail.google.com

Deward Newog

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Sep 6, 2005, 11:11:00 AM9/6/05
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Interestingly: http://www.googlemail.com goes nowhere but http://googlemail.com redirects.  What are they thinking?  Go figure!

Caleb

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Sep 6, 2005, 2:00:31 PM9/6/05
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heh probably the same thing as this site: http://no-www.org/
i agree with them too.

fla....@gmail.com

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Sep 7, 2005, 1:47:58 AM9/7/05
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I didn't know about the sue, incredible :O
Thanks for sharing,

Flavio.

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