Being the thoughts and writings of one Gustaf Erikson; father, homeowner, technologist.

Friday, 2006-04-21

POP into Gmail?

My old email provider home.se is moving to a new platform and are disabling the mail forwarding feature that was in place earlier. This enabled me to just forward all emails sent to that address to my Gmail account and have everything in one place.

Now this is no longer possible. I suspect that the email forwarding feature was a problem for them as they couldn’t display ads in the webmail interface for the users that had that enabled. So I don’t think it’ll be back.

I can access these emails via POP, so this raises the question: how can I enable the “import” of these emails into Gmail via POP? Two possibilities present themselves:

  • use a POP client (like spit Outlook) and create a rule that simply forwards all received emails to my Gmail account

  • code a little script that grabs the emails via POP and sends them on, using cron for example to schedule it.

The second option is the most fun of course, but it would be cool if there already was something like this out there. Any ideas?

Posted at 20:57, in the comm category. Comments [0]
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