mikas blog

Yes – now I have an account at gmail. I’ve been invited by a friend of mine from california. What are my first impressions? First of all opera doesn’t seem to be compatible. Shouldn’t be a problem – just go on via ‘click here to use your unsupported browser’. I had to set some values like login-name and password and had to accept the terms of use. Congratulations – done. Ok, let’s log in. Huh – ActiveX is required? No chance to log in, even not via using ‘Internet Explorer’ as User-Agent-string.

Daniel (who invited me to join gmail) told me that it’s working with firefox. So I started Firefox and after logging in I find myself in the inbox.

My first test was a mail with german umlauts including a euro-sign. gmail seems to send mails with charset UTF-8 – at least I can read the mail with mutt as I wanted it to ;-).

The user interface is quite handy. I’ll check it out in more details in the next few days. You can reach me via mprokop@gmail.com. [No, this won’t be my main mail address! ;-)]

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