Google makes GMail more desirable

Google’s webmail service GMail is more than a year old and is still running in beta. It means that the company can make massive changes to the concept or even stop it one fine day without justifying their move considering the service is in beta stage. However, the impact GMail has had on our online mailing life has been phenomenal. Despite the fears of private mails being monitored by dumb computers (to generate ‘relevant’ advertisement on the sidebar), it has continued to be heavily popular amongst users.

However, their has been one little limitation we have to move permanently to this mail address. Most of us have previous mail ids, which are either more widely spread or are better, associated with our business or work. GMail until now did not allow us to send mail through it from another mail id. However, the company has added a new feature, which makes the mailing service more desirable for us users.

Now, I can configure my GMail to send email using any of my multiple historical email ids. The service just requires you to confirm that you own that email account. For this, they are just using a simple email confirmation where you have to receive a mail from the company on that account and than either press a verification link or pick the number from that mail and manually add it on the verification screen inside GMail.

In addition, you can also send with these mails a different Reply To address enabling the users to send you mail back on your GMail address whenever they reply to the mails sent through these alternative mail ids. Really convenient I would say. Now, if only Google let GMail check my other pop/smtp based accounts making it easier for managing all my mail ids from a single location!

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