Using gmail as a client for my POP/IMAP email account?

It won't be transparent, since the e-mail will say: From: [email protected] Reply-to: [email protected] I have a friend who wants to use her Harvard alumni address so she actually set her name so it looks like: From: "Jane Doe <[email protected]>" <[email protected]> I think this is both tacky and confusing.

GMail supports POP mail collection now.

Skylar, are you sure? I can obviously forward mail to my gmail account, but I haven't found any way to have gmail collect the mail from another account... or isn't that what you meant?

I think Skylar means you can collect your email *from* gmail using POP, which won't help in this instance.

This is my #1 gmail feature request. I've expressed my desire a number of times, but their responses have always left me feeling like this isn't in their interests.

It's not: it means you could upload 1G of stuff from your other accounts, and fill up their servers. The space is budgeted on receiving a normal amount of mail per user, not receiving a user's archive. Which a lot of people -- including me, heh -- would promptly do.

Is there any web-based email that lets you spoof the "From" address?

Is there any web-based email that lets you spoof the "From" address? No, but Gmail lets you change the reply-to address, which is the same thing for all intents and purposes. I do something similar to bonaldi, but with a twist. I do it in Apple Mail, but YMMV depending on rules robustness in your client of choice. I get a lot of spam. A lot. I set up my Apple Mail rules to first run through all my spam filters. Then I have a simple rule that says, "If this message is not spam, redirect (note: not forward, so that it preserves the From: info) to Gmail", and then the rest of the filing rules continue.

Something to keep in mind: in my experience, your average person doesn't really understand the concept of a reply-to address. When I tried using one, more than one person wrote back to my From address in a panic, saying "I don't know who [Reply-To Address] is! I think I have a virus!"