<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Feb 18, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>so, help me out here.. what exactly is it google does for you?<br>is it the gmail mail fetcher?<br><a href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=21288">http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=21288</a><br>Welcome to our information center for Mail Fetcher. Gmail's Mail Fetcher can <br>download messages from up to five other email accounts, centralizing all your <br>email in Gmail. The tabs above have information on setting up Mail Fetcher, <br>as well as troubleshooting tips for the common problems users face.<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>To make a long story short, it's a bit more than that -</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html">http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Is the best place to look, but in the case of gmail, you can set your own domains to receive email, as your domain, not as a redirect or fetching mail from another account. The mail is sent directly to google's servers and you get a Gmail interface for those email addresses. </div><div><br></div><div>Given gmail's spam filtering capabilities, it's a pretty good alternative to hosting your own mail if you don't want to pay for your own external mail server. </div></body></html>