Gmail Mail Fetcher

If you’re using Exabytes web hosting, their new important changes might effect your mail life a lot. Here’s except from the mail that I’ve received:

Dear Kheirul Aizat,

1. Email forwarding to Yahoo!, Gmail, Hotmail and other popular free
email provider

1.1. We will no longer permit email forwarding from your hosted email
account to any of the free email service providers (e.g.
tm.net.my,streamyx.com, yahoo.com, gmail.com, hotmail.com, aol.com,
rocketmail.com and so on) or any online groups (e.g. Google groups and
Yahoo groups) in our shared hosting mail server.

1.2. This is due to free email service provider has applied more
strict anti-spam policy in their mail server. Due to this issue, if
they detected many of our customers set their email account to forward
a copy of the email to the free email service providers. If the
account have a lot of email being send to the account, all the email
will be forwarded to his or her free email account and instead of
Yahoo detect it as an email, it detect the forwarding as attack on the
free email account. Due to that issue, the service provider will
block us from sending email to their email account.

1.3. Unfortunately, even though we are not responsible for this spam,
these service providers noted have repeatedly been blacklisting our
mail servers, causing legitimate email to be blocked.

1.4. In order provide a smooth email transaction between our mail
server and those email service providers, we decided to disallowed
customer from forward their email to the email service provider.

Gah! So, I can’t make my hosting forward my mails to my gmail anymore. Fine.

Thank GOD Google is awesome. Instead of asking my hosting to forward my mails, I just ask Google to “fetch” my mails.

Click here for more.

You can check your POP settings, in your Cpanel > Email Accounts > Configure Mail Client. You find something like this:

mailsetup

After you set it up, make sure you turn off your hosting forwarding settings, then test it out. It should work.

PS: /worship Google