Which is a shame.

There are two ways around it that I’ve looked into:

1. I use thunderbird for all my mail accounts. Gmail pops all my received mail and thunderbird downloads it from there. I use filters to move incoming mail to the right place.

For sending mail it’s a little more complicated. Obviously my gmail account sends and receives through their server. For my other accounts what I do is send using the account email server, eg mail.pixelapes.com, but I add a rule to always bcc my gmail account. In gmail I set up a filter to label these bcc mails as Pixelapes Sent, and I have a final issue of all my mails being downloaded again by Thunderbird. No problem, just set up a filter to mark those incoming mails as read and move them to trash.

Now it’s a little bit of a weird way to have things going, but I know now that all of my email comes and goes through gmail, which is what I wanted, so everything is in one place.

2. I haven’t implemented this, but looked into it. Google Apps for your Domain. This would probably sort everything I can imagine.