Mail Forward: AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, MSN, Yahoo! to Apple Mail
An updated version of Mail Forward was released today.
It is a stand-alone app that will forward your email from any or all of the providers above, or from any POP account. You can choose to forward it to any other account, say, one that Apple Mail can access and then read your web mail in one account in comfort and style.
It works by accessing your web mail or POP mailbox and then forwarding each email onto your chosen account through your SMTP mail server. The preference screen displays most of the options:
You can choose to delete the mail from the original account or retain it and schedule the polling interval to suit. It also features basic “AppleScriptability”.
It doesn’t work with as many providers as MacFreePOPs and it’s not donation-ware, but to me it seemed easier to configure and use. My extensive five minute trial demonstrated that it works flawlessly with Gmail, Yahoo! and Hotmail.
You can use it for up to 20 accounts and it has a 30 day free trial option. Registration costs USD 19.95. Mail Forward can be downloaded from the developer’s website.
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October 8th, 2005 at 9:40 am
[...] UPDATE: Check out MailForward as well, which works with fewer services and costs money but is easier to set up. [...]
October 20th, 2005 at 11:34 pm
[...] Stowe Boyd, “a well-known media subversive”, is not so happy. He wants to be able to read his Gmail off-line, write replies and then upload then again when he reconnects. MacFreePOPs, MailForward or POP access to Gmail don’t seem to be for him. He wants a dedicated tool to do the job: Yes, I realize that I could (possibly) configure Apple Mail, or Mozilla, or something to sort of do this. But it seems more attractive to have a small, lightweight, dedicated app to do this, rather than fool around with a big fat app. [...]
November 15th, 2005 at 10:40 pm
[...] While you are waiting, you could try some other options like MacFreePOPs or MailForward. [...]
December 9th, 2005 at 7:21 am
[...] Two other Mail.app add-ons, macfreePOPs and MailForward, also make it possible to use Apple Mail for your Hotmail (and for many other web-based email services as well). Technorati Tags: Apple, Hotmail, Mail.app [...]
January 6th, 2006 at 7:18 pm
[...] Mac users with Yahoo! Mail accounts are well catered for. YMail offers Yahoo-specific menubar notification and you can download your Yahoo emails into Mail.app with either MacFreePOPs or MailForward. Technorati Tags: Yahoo!, email, Yahoo, notification, Mail.app [...]
June 18th, 2007 at 2:31 am
hey….
does anyone know how to forward my hotmail to my applemail??
step by step instrustions required!! :)
thanks a ton
mattjredmond@gmail.com
June 26th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
> does anyone know how to forward my hotmail to my applemail??
> step by step instrustions required!! :)
Take a look at
http://v3.izymail.com/gmailconfig.aspx
The instructions are about forwarding Hotmail to Gmail, and you will find more info on the site.
December 20th, 2007 at 11:29 am
my hotmail messages will not forward to my aol account and my apple mail. Can you help