Gmail and its discontents (II)
Problem solved, although not the way I would have liked. I'm now using Apple Mail to pull in my Northeastern mail (via POP) and Gmail (via IMAP) separately. I'm able to use Northeastern's SMTP server off-campus as well as on. So all of my outgoing NU mail contains official-looking header information, and will thus not be intercepted by anyone's spam filter.
Oh, well. Apple Mail's not so bad, I suppose.
Labels: Gmail, Northeastern, technology
posted by Dan Kennedy @ 11:31 AM
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3 Comments:
NU mail, at least for students, also support IMAP, which I generally prefer. I experienced the same issue as you with regards to the headers. NU Information Services has actually considered switching to gmail for all NEU student mail, but last I heard legal issues/liabilities were holding the process up.
Ben: Yes, NU mail does support IMAP. My current thinking, though, is that I want to pull all of my NU mail off the server and then sort it with Gmail labels.
It would be wonderful if NU would simply switch to Gmail.
I too use Apple Mail and have a Gmail and Professional account, all as IMAP. I move my mail to folders that act as labels. Good luck
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