adding gmail as default email program

[peggy j]

i have moved to gmail and it is not in the pull-down as a choice formy
default email system. how can i add it?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

i have moved to gmail and it is not in the pull-down as a choice
formy default email system. how can i add it?

Don't know - since you have told us nothing about what client you are using.

If you are using Internet Browsers as your email client - you cannot assign
a browser as a default email client - because it is not an email client - it
is an Internet Browser. ;-)

 

[peggy j]

i am using IE7 in XP..i guess i am out of luck...thanx...pj

 

[Shenan Stanley]

i have moved to gmail and it is not in the pull-down as a choice
formy default email system. how can i add it?

Don't know - since you have told us nothing about what client you
are using.

If you are using Internet Browsers as your email client - you
cannot assign a browser as a default email client - because it is
not an email client - it is an Internet Browser. ;-)

i am using IE7 in XP..i guess i am out of luck...thanx...pj

Unless you start using an actual email client - you will not be able to
choose a non-email client as your default email client.

Outlook Express, Outlook, ThunderBird, etc... all legitimate email clients
and all can be used to IMAP or POP with GMail. If you like getting your
email via the web interface - I suggest IMAP on a client.

GMail has instructions on how to do this with MANY clients.

Getting started with IMAP
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=75725&topic=12891

Enabling IMAP
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77695&topic=12891

Supported IMAP clients (and their setup instructions)
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=75726&topic=12891

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Unless you start using an actual email client - you will not be able to
choose a non-email client as your default email client.

Outlook Express, Outlook, ThunderBird, etc... all legitimate email clients
and all can be used to IMAP or POP with GMail. If you like getting your
email via the web interface - I suggest IMAP on a client.

I'm just curious as to why you suggest IMAP rather than POP, since
I've personally never used IMAP and know next to nothing about it.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I'm just curious as to why you suggest IMAP rather than POP, since
I've personally never used IMAP and know next to nothing about it.

Simply because of the way GMail is utilized by most (via web) and how IMAP
can directly reflect what one would see via the web and POP would have to be
manually setup and maintained in order to do so.

I have managed gmail using both POP and IMAP and if you do occassionally
access GMAIL via the web (which I do and I would bet many others do as
well) - to me the IMAP is a better representation of the GMail layout and
makes it easy to manage folders and such so that everything looks the same
when you access it either way.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Simply because of the way GMail is utilized by most (via web) and how IMAP
can directly reflect what one would see via the web and POP would have to be
manually setup and maintained in order to do so.

I have managed gmail using both POP and IMAP and if you do occassionally
access GMAIL via the web (which I do and I would bet many others do as
well) - to me the IMAP is a better representation of the GMail layout and
makes it easy to manage folders and such so that everything looks the same
when you access it either way.

OK, thanks for the info. Although I use gmail (as a secondary E-mail
address, not my main one), the only time I access it via the web
(either gmail or any other) is very occasionally--when traveling and
using a public computer. My normal use is via Microsoft Outlook, and I
want gmail to look like all other mail rather than like its web-based
view.