Interlinked Gmail Accounts

I use two Gmail IDs and have interlinked them to make things more convenient i.e I receive and reply to emails from my regular ID that have been sent to my blogger email ID. This is because i have configured my Gmail account to forward all the incoming conversations to my regular ID and also allowed it to send and reply to emails in the name of my blogger email ID. This is one of the coolest features introduced by Gmail. But, this feature comes along with one inconvenience. Gmail adds the Email ID of  the original sender in the email header which is easily readable by the recipient, which makes the feature useless for professional and business conversations.

On bringing this issue to the notice of Google. They justified that, Gmail needs to authenticate the Emails sent using it’s SMTP servers to avoid the sent emails to be flagged as SPAM in the recipient’s mail box. Hence, the “On Behaf Of” can be easily seen in some of the Email clients.

The feature is expected to be fixed in near future due to a large volume of user requests.

(Post Updated as on 25th Sept 2009)

Nokia 1110i is super cool when it comes to speed and simplicity. Being a Nokia 1110i user, i’ve always enjoyed the browsing speed and the comfortable keypad. For me, It’s basically a fixed version of Nokia 1100. Even though this black and white phone is stripped to only calling, messaging and with a better version of Snake for entertainment , it doesn’t stop me from receiving my mails and recent feeds on my mobile. The trick is for all who use a simple phone with no GPRS access and is also useful for mobiles with GPRS.

There are two services that i am considering, one being only for phone numbers in India and the other one for USA and Canada.

I will start of with the service for phone numbers in India.

For receiving new mails on SMS, you need to free your Gmail feed from the usual authentication (yes, you have a feed for your email account too).

For regular feeds, apart from Freeing your feed, all the steps to be followed are the same.

Google SMS Channels (Currently for India only):

I have tested this trick only on Gmail accounts and works as smooth as whiskey. It should work for other Webmail services too. Though the updates are not in real time, it usually takes 5-10 minutes to arrive as SMS.

Common Gmail feed link: https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom

The feeds for other webmail services can be found with Google search.

Get started:

1. Go to https://freemyfeed.com
2. Enter https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom as the input url, followed by your user id and password. (Is it safe? Of course it is. But still, you should read the privacy policy on the website). Save the output URL.
3. Log into Google SMS channels,
4. Settings,
5. Enter your mobile number and set the other options as per your preferences,
6. Create a new channel,
7. Enter the regular details in the form,
8. In the ‘Source’ section, select RSS/Atom feed and enter the new feed generated from http://freemyfeed.com
9. ‘Allow publishing by’: Only me
10. ‘Who can subscribe’: By invitation only
11. Click on Create Channel,
12. And you’re done.

ZapTXT (USA and Canada only):

Register and enter the necessary details and the new feed generated from http://freemyfeed.com

Follow the easy step by step guide, and you’re done!