Posts Tagged ‘gmail’
This should work for any service that only supports POP3S, not just gmail. You’ll need a Linux box/VM (I generally use Ubuntu). Background Since the mid 90s I’ve used Ameol to retrieve email. When I started using gmail I forwarded mail on to my ISP’s POP3 service and collected it with Ameol so that I’d […]
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Tags: 110, 995, client, email, gmail, perdition, POP3, POP3S, port, proxy, stunnel, Ubuntu
Identity Providers – Google
This is my second post in a series looking at how federated identity has becoming a reality (I first looked at Twitter). The user experience The basic premise of federated identity is first you sign into something that you use a lot, and then the platform reuses that sign in to get you into other […]
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Tags: federated, federation, gapps, gmail, google, identity, OATH, oauth, OpenID, persona, single sign on, SSO, two factor
GDrive
I’ve been a keen user of Gmail since its earliest days, and I also use Google Apps at work, so I’m not surprised by the excitement around the launch of what people are calling ‘GDrive’, which is actually just a new feature of Google Docs that allows arbitrary files to be shared. What is a […]
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Tags: aws, bittorrent, cloud, gapps, gmail, google, s3, SMEstorage, storage
How Gmail could be better
I’ve been using Gmail since the earliest days (Oct 2004), when you had to know somebody with spare invites, and I’ve always liked it. Now that I use it at work as well as for personal mail I find that there are a few niggles that I’m sure the Google guys could sort out: Label […]
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Tags: gmail, google
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