GMail as a remote hard drive#

After the GMail Filesystem for Linux (via doggi), it seems somebody's also created a GMail Drive shell extension for Windows (via Early Adopter).

To me that spells: free backup space (I don't see it replacing my local hard drive just yet) - so I guess I won't be giving away any GMail invites after all :-)

So all that nifty stuff, but still no clean solution to just fetch my GMail to Outlook :-(

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Monday, November 01, 2004 11:20:37 AM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00)
http://www.gpopper.com/ allows you to use pop3 with gmail. This should allow you to use gmail from outlook
Monday, November 01, 2004 10:29:04 PM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00)
Or you could use PopGavaMail, it's a Java pop proxy for Gmail, and it works! Warning though, the proxy should only be used to get unread messages, otherwise Gmail might block your account when trying to download too many mails in one go. I've tested it, and it will pick up all unread messages correctly. If you read a message in the web interface and mark it is as unread, the proxy will also pick it up. If you leave the message read in the web interface, then the proxy will ignore the message.

But I don't see why you shouldn't use Gmail's interface, it's cool and simple ;-) (and I don't want to start a war here...)
Tuesday, November 02, 2004 3:26:44 PM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00)
I've tried GPopper but I couldn't get it to work (ok I gave up pretty fast but still), besides it's a Windows application and not a service so that's no good to me.

I might try PopGavaMail but then I'd have to install Java on my server and it's already so slow ;-)) (Ok that was too easy sorry.)

But I guess all possible solutions suffer from the same problem: they're very dependant of the GMail implementation. They all have to emulate an http session and parse the special dataset that comes out of GMail into a number of email messages. Sure it works now but it can change overnight (it's still in beta) and I'd be much more comfortable with a solution supported by Google.

Of course, Google wouldn't gain a lot of advertisement income if they allowed people to bypass their website, so I'm not really hopeful that that day will ever come...
Tuesday, June 07, 2005 7:22:52 AM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00)
I have been using it when I have Corrupted dbx and Outlook express wont open. Outlook Express more stable and secure than other programs.
Friday, June 10, 2005 6:49:56 AM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00)
I must admit to being more impressed for Fix outlook express, Inbox repair tool and Dbx file recovery. I've even recommended it to all my friends.
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