Gmail is a bit of an island at the moment. if you want to use its interface – for its rapid search and the ‘available from anywhere’ nature maybe. You are locked-in to a Gmail domain address, and your messages can’t be exported once received. I’ve covered this theme before Gmail Lock-in
However I just stumbled across this Gmail help desk posting: How can I access Gmail from another email provider, or access other email accounts from Gmail? Apparantly this lock-in is not an intentional ploy and functionality will be added to allow inter-operability. Google really does intend to do no evil.
Lets us be sceptical until it happens tho’…
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