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[ged25]

I recently heard that Gmail allows you to access mails from other accounts and your replies will go with that address. Does any other email service provider offer this ?
How is it that this is even possible ? I would have thought that the mail service providers would make sure that the only way to use their service would be to come to their site. If you can sign up and then have your mail routed to another account or have it read on your email client, they would be reducing the number of people visiting and therefore potentially losing revenue.

[ged25]

Nobody knows ?:confused:

[Orjan]

Well, what gmail does, is to allow fetching pop3 mail, which is one of the most common mailbox standards. so this wont affect those with hotmail or other ad mails, but users ISP mails or business mail or other similar stuff...

[WingedPanther]

How do I forward my mail to another email account automatically? - Gmail Help

[dargueta]

As far as sending emails from one address through another client (i.e. sending an email from a Gmail account that looks like it came from your MSN address), it's incredibly easy to change the From: header in an email. I have a tutorial on this somewhere in the Linux Tutorials section. Under sendmail or something like that, I think.

[Orjan]

Additionally, Gmail actually have a built in check so you need to prove that you have tights to that account, by it sending an email to the account with an activation code, before it lets you send emails with that sender address

[ged25]

Its not legal to spoof mail address right ?

[dargueta]

Depends on what country and for what purpose. I'd imagine that impersonation is illegal in most countries.

[Orjan]

Well, if I send from my own address but through gmail instead of outlook or thunderbird, it can't be spoofing.

[dargueta]

Well no, that's you sending emails from your address. I meant that if I were to send someone an email claiming to be from some bank and asking them to go to this website to confirm their account information or whatever, that's illegal.