Setting Gmail As The Preferred Mail Reader In Gnome

A Google search turns up lots of dead ends. Some are pretty good, but most are completely useless. I tried a couple of the configuration variations suggested in the article and its comments and didn’t have much luck.

It turns out that it’s actually easy. Just follow these simple steps:

  1. Download Gnome Gmail
  2. Install it! I used the .deb because I run Ubuntu.
  3. Go to System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications
  4. Select Gmail in the Mail Reader drop down
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November 28, 2009 | Filed Under linux 

Comments

  • Thanks!


    Those smartypants at sourceforge ought to make it easier for me to use apt-get to grab .deb files from their projects.


    Downloading deb files and installing them manually just seems silly in 2009.

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