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[scottk]

Great advice, but how do you send e-mail from that other domain using a different e-mail client?
For example, I use Apple's Mail.app. How can I send e-mail from the alternate domain when it's using the Gmail account? My experience has been that you have to send it from the "@gmail.com" address. Is there another way to do that so I can send the mail from whatever address I want?

[animamia]

From the Account tab in Gmail Settings, you can add another account and even make it default for sending email out.

[TBolt]

Gmail is simply the best email option out there -- so much so that businesses are using it more and more (including my own), thanks to the Google Apps option.
I never see spam in my Gmail inbox. When I check (rarely) my old Yahoo email box, it's full of spam. LOL...why bother using anything other than Gmail today?

[luvduchovny]

Yes it does work pretty darn good for filtering spam, and you can send mail using your domain email address instead of gmail, but the one downside I have is sometimes mail sent to my domain doesn't make it through to gmail at all. The only reason I know I have the messages is on my domain I have mail set to save of the server but download off the server to my desktop via Outlook. Every now and then a message (that's not spam and is rather important) gets through there that NEVER appears in GMail as spam or otherwise. I would say that happens to less than 1 percent of my mail, but it does happen though.

[TBolt]

I'm sorry to hear that. I, personally, haven't experienced that problem; although, I refuse to use Outlook, anyway. I just keep all my email - personal & business - on the Web.
Have you checked-in with the folks at Google Groups to see if there might be something wrong with the server settings, etc?

groups.google.com

[Markarian421]

I tried this a while ago and had a similar problem, some fraction of email never made it out of the gmail account and on the account I was forwarding it to. So I had to check the gmail account on a regular basis to check for any important emails I'd missed. Gmail's forwarding seem to be hit and (occasionally but too often for my tastes) miss.

[inuyasha]

nice tip. gmail, as a whole get verry little spam to your inbox, and from my expierience, no false positives

[Therrito]

I already use Gmail to filter out unwanted spam. Then I have my mail forwarded to another web-based email account. On average I get maybe 3 spam messages in my web-based email every week. That's a significantly low number compared to my friends and family. I highly recommend this method for filtering out unwanted spam. :-)

[Therrito]

added note: My Gmail address is the only one I give out on the net. My other web-based email account I give only to friends and family.

[DawnReneee]

I agree with Gmails "dropping" of the occasional email. Has happened with me as well.
Good idea using Gmail for only email out on the net. However, my other "web-based" email account is slow, at best.