Thursday, June 19, 2008

Gmail in Germany

I keep getting an annoying message that Gmail cannot be used under this name in Germany.
Then it works with mail.google.com, but when I send an email, it seems like it's using user@googlemail.com by default instead of user@gmail.com.

We can't provide service under the Gmail name in Germany; we're called Google Mail here instead.

2 comments:

Peng said...

Same problem here in Stuttgart. Some of my Gmail notifier even stop working ...

T said...

when Gmail (Google's version) started, gmail.de was already an email service.

that's why the german version changes its name - because the original owners of gmail.de wouldn't give up their name to Google