How To: Store Messages Sent With Gmail on Another Mail Server
Part of Gmail’s popularity lies in its plethora of options. Even if it isn’t your primary e-mail address, options like the ability to set multiple “from” addresses make it an easy way to manage all your mail accounts in one place.
But there’s one flaw in that solution: if you send mail from Gmail using a non-Gmail address, there’s no copy of the sent message stored in your primary e-mail account, which is why the GmailAutoBcc Greasemonkey script is incredibly handy.
The simple script automatically BCCs a selected address so you can keep copies of sent messages on your primary mail server even when you send them through Gmail.
There are two versions of the GmailAutoBcc script, one for the old and one for new version of Gmail, both of which you can grab from the author’s site.
Once installed, GmailAutoBcc will ask you for an email address to copy to and after that the script will automatically add that address to the BCC field of all your outgoing messages. There are options to prompt every time you send and a few other tweaks like using CC instead of BCC (in Firefox type about:config in the URL bar and then search for “gbcc” to set your preferences).
Perhaps the best of these additional options is the “MapFromAddress” setting which allows you to associate the copied address with a particular Gmail identity. In other words, you can copy to different addresses based on the address that you’re sending from.
When it comes to e-mail You can never have too many backups and GmailAutoBcc makes it easy to fill in the one gap in the common Gmail-as-a-backup solution.
GmailAutoBcc works in any browser that supports Greasemonkey.
[via Lifehacker]
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