10.7: Quickly add a Gmail account to Mail

Sep 26, '11 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: kidzmatter2me

The other day, I had to logout and log back in to Gmail on my Mac. This was the first time I did this in Safari running on Lion.

When I clicked to login, Safari popped up a little dialog asking if I'd like to 'use Mail, iCal, and iChat' with my Gmail account. You can choose to add or not add. Choosing to add sends you to System Preferences where you can set this up for the system.

I haven't been able to test it with other email systems (i.e. Yahoo), but the implementation is pretty cool. Quick and easy way to setup Gmail in Lion.

[crarko adds: Thank you, iOS. Seriously, it is good to have all this stuff in one place, and that Safari is aware of it. Please note in the comments if you find any 3rd-party software taking advantage of this feature. I think that's my main reason for publishing this.]

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