Gmail inbox previews – update
Just a quick note to let you know that Gmail has been having problems with their RSS feeds, which power the Gmail inbox previews on Protopage.
Until Google fix this problem, there is a workaround. Google will allow you to access your Gmail via POP3 – and you can enable this feature by logging into your Gmail account and clicking the Settings button in the top right of the screen. Then select the Forwarding and POP tab, and in the POP Download section choose Enable POP only for mail that arrives from now on. Then click the Save Changes button.
Now, add an inbox preview widget to your Protopage, and click the edit button. For inbox type, choose POP3 (instead of Gmail), and enter your login and password (for login, if you Gmail email is yourname@gmail.com, then just enter yourname as the login).
For the POP3 server address enter pop.gmail.com and tick the Server uses SSL box. Finally, enter http://mail.google.com/mail/ for the Webmail URL, click Save changes, and voila!
UPDATE: Gmail have restored their RSS feed service, so this workaround is no longer necessary.
March 28th, 2006 at 1:48 pm
Wow, Protopage Team – thanks so much for that workaround ! It works just great !!!
March 29th, 2006 at 8:33 pm
People who didn’t use pop anyway, would not be affected this way, and would simply follow your instructions with no ill effects, of course! :)
March 30th, 2006 at 1:11 am
We weren’t correcting you FreeBee – sorry if it looked like that. You were and are perfectly correct. We just wanted to clear up any confusion because a few people emailed in asking if they were at risk of removing messages from their Gmail account by using the POP option. Not being familiar with the options you were talking about they weren’t sure about the instructions.
March 30th, 2006 at 2:14 am
Oops, my sincere apologies for that, then.
Maybe I could have written a more elaborate initial message so this misunderstanding would not have occurred… if only I mastered english a little better and was more patient about writing such messages :)
March 31st, 2006 at 2:40 am
Gmail restored their RSS feed service, so this workaround is no longer necessary.
April 3rd, 2006 at 11:56 pm
is there any way that you guys can make the link widget font colors be able change? that be really cool!
thanks, love the site!
April 4th, 2006 at 3:51 pm
Hi Team,
I agree with the grl, here. Would be very cool if links in any widget could change color for being visited, or even when you hover your mouse pointer over them. Just like on ordinary pages :)
Would that be feasible?
Heck, you’re the best anyway!! [grovel, grovel] B)
April 5th, 2006 at 2:30 am
Thanks, your requests are noted. As always, we’re currently working on new features which should be out in the next few days…
April 5th, 2006 at 12:57 pm
Oh, this is only the beginning – much much more to come. There are business models here – many of which do not even require advertising. First things first though – we’re building out the platform so that it’s everything you want it to be! As always, please send feature requests to us at http://www.protopage.com/_api/contact
Thanks!
April 9th, 2006 at 4:35 am
Great article. I am just sad I dont know how to reply properly, though, since I want to show my appreciation like many other.
April 9th, 2006 at 9:06 pm
Hi,
the gmail module seems down today.. just hangs in: checking…
April 9th, 2006 at 11:29 pm
Thanks for letting us know – we have now resolved the issue.
April 11th, 2006 at 12:45 am
Thank you!
April 17th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
May 2nd, 2006 at 8:06 pm
Any thoughts/work arounds for a gCal widget?
May 7th, 2006 at 4:24 pm
are you sure the issue is resolved? i’m still getting a “checking…” and my inbox from two days back.
May 8th, 2006 at 2:10 am
okay.. it’s working now.
May 17th, 2006 at 7:46 pm
and i think it’s off again. the same error.
May 18th, 2006 at 6:56 pm
Gmail it’s not working again.. it has been 3 days now.
I tried the work around and it didn’t work either. A fix
from protopage will be great and it should be possible as
other start pages have no problem right now to get Gmail
previews.
Please fix it Protopage team
:-)
May 19th, 2006 at 2:30 am
still down..
i have started to consider using a different start page provider :-(
May 19th, 2006 at 8:55 pm
it’s working again, thank you protopage
May 29th, 2006 at 7:52 am
The mail facility appears to be down, both POP and Gmail, just sits there saying checking. I’ve deleted them all and recreated them all, no different.
May 29th, 2006 at 6:57 pm
Working again, thanks
Steve
June 13th, 2006 at 7:45 pm
I cannot seem to work the gmail. I am left with the “This widget is temporarily unavailable. Service will resume shortly.” I tried the work arounds as well as updating settings in my gmail account. Any thoughts?
Thank you.
June 15th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
Same here with POP settings as well, been the same for about 3 days now on 3 of my 5 accounts.
Steve
October 18th, 2006 at 9:30 am
Hi
Using the Gmail/email widget, I can only see first line or so of the message in my inbox. As my work disallows Gmail, clicking on it brings up a ‘page blocked’ page. is it possible to view *all* of a message instead of just the first line or two?
Cheers
Mark
February 16th, 2011 at 2:26 am
For this matter, once I discussed with one of my friends, not only about the content you talked about, but also to how to improve and develop, but no results. So I am deeply moved by what you said today.
August 3rd, 2012 at 2:33 am
I want to know if I create a page, will it be publically seen, but no one change make changes to it? Also, I would like to set up a private group for my classes. Something that only I can view. For example, the students can create their own pages but I have some general access code that will allow me to view it. I don\’t want other students to be able to go onto someone\’s page and make changes.
I want to be able to check their updates without it be accessible to the whole class.
August 17th, 2013 at 7:12 pm
is it possible to upload logo for webpage? to make it look professional? If yes how to upload?
August 17th, 2013 at 7:13 pm
is it possible to upload a logo
October 7th, 2013 at 2:46 pm
Still don’t know how to access my gmail.