googlemail.com / gmail.com

[Carl]

Just wondering, do you guys use googlemail or gmail?

I know that if you send a message to googlemail.com, or gmail.com they both go to your inbox, but what about the return address?

My question is, is it safer to stick with [email protected] ?

quite like the idea of gmail.com

Thanks

 

[Rich1988]

I have always sent them to gmail.com

 

[Zefan]

Gmail was the original name but due to some company suing Google they had to change the name (for the UK) and chose Googlemail.

Gmail sounds a lot better.

I was under the impression that if it was a googlemail.com account and you sent it to gmail.com it wouldn't deliver?

 

[Carl]

Gmail was the original name but due to some company suing Google they had to change the name (for the UK) and chose Googlemail.

Gmail sounds a lot better.

I was under the impression that if it was a googlemail.com account and you sent it to gmail.com it wouldn't deliver?

It works, i just think if you return the mail it shows your address as [email protected]

I have a MSN passport with my googlemail acccount as gmail.

European countries are being registered with googlemail accounts, but i was just wondering if gmail is secure, knowing that they havent won the rights to the name or something? as gmail.de is thier competitor?

 

[G|mp]

i was one of the lucky ones that could have my name and @gmail.com

 

[tom_e]

i was one of the lucky ones that could have my name and @gmail.com

Me to dont think it matters though as far as I know you can send it to either

 

[G-MAN2004]

Yep, I've got a @gmail address as well. I bought it off ebay when the invitations first started appearing.

 

[Zefan]

I bought it off ebay

Ahahahaha!

How much for?

 

[J1234]

So did I, I think it was about 5p or something.

A few weeks before I bought it they were going for hundreds.

 

[Sarduk]

Just use a proxy based in the US and you can still get a G-mail address, last I checked.

 

[Morba]

gmail is such a better name, glad my 2 accounts are gmail, not googlemail

 

[J1234]

gmail is such a better name, glad my 2 accounts are gmail, not googlemail

Same.

My girlfriend has an annoying googlemail one and I always type gmail by mistake and the emails never get sent grr.

 

[ArmyofHarmony]

I have a gmail one


wanna buy mine?

 

[Azagoth]

I've never tried telling anyone @gmail, I always use the @googlemail suffix.

 

[Ecl]

It definately does work, I always register at sites as @gmail even though it says I am @googlemail, dont know why.

 

[weringo]

I have loads of @gmail ones, anyone wanna buy one? Bargain at £10 each

 

[Lysander]

Erm in case anyone doesn't know they are interchangeable.

[email protected]

[email protected]

Both will receive emails instantly.

@ Gordy - good screw by the sound of it!

 

[allllec]

I got a gmail here myself. got it right at the begining when invites where rare.. lucky kid but never the less alec@ and hewitt@ and russell@ where all taken - i was gutted =[

 

[Morba]

alec wouldnt have been taken would it? i tohught that they would only allow names with min 5 chars

 

[frosty03]

I got a gmail here myself. got it right at the begining when invites where rare.. lucky kid but never the less alec@ and hewitt@ and russell@ where all taken - i was gutted =[

Those kind of emails will attract a heck of spam. I had one of those "nice" short hotmail email addy, since i signed up way back in 1994. The account is all but unusable. I get close to 300 emails in my inbox daily, mostly from pple typing in wrong addresses, but also spam. Heck, if i dont check it for afew days, there are pages and pages of spam sitting in my inbox.

I've long since given up trying to use the account since you end up sifting through all those junk for the few relevant ones.