I cannot guarantee 100% accuracy of what I claim, yet I found this occupying my thoughts and reckon it to be an interesting issue.
A simple tweak in GET request will let you know what services use google as their mailing service, and it's no black magic.
I was first astonished to see if what I saw was for real.
I found this URL while messing with the admin panel of mail manager provided by gmail.
https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/ensolnepal.com/images/logo.gif
This is what I got, as of now:
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This is where the logo of third party sites are hosted. If I just change the domain name,
https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/ioe.edu.np/images/logo.gif
Wow, I haven't even logged into my college's webmail and I can see the logo that was uploaded for the logged in users to see.
I requested webadmin of my college to set up an email for me after this and the logo that appeared before seemed to be the real thing.
This is the thing I am talking about:
Now, lets just play around
https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/facebook.com/images/logo.gif
This is what is seen as of now:
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Well, well, what the heck!
Facebook uses google's mail service ?
I couldn't find a rational explanation for "No, they don't".
and twitter?
https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/twitter.com/images/logo.gif
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Now, lets see whether some other sites use gmail:
https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/alexa.com/images/logo.gif
Nope, since gmail's default logo appears, they dont seem to use gmail.(That's my explanation)
I don't yet know if this is totally random but I checked for several domains I possess (and few of my friends) and it appears to be true in those particular cases.
If you have gmail as your mail service provider and you are seeing something different, (or even if you think this is b***s***,) feel free to mention in comments.
A simple tweak in GET request will let you know what services use google as their mailing service, and it's no black magic.
I was first astonished to see if what I saw was for real.
I found this URL while messing with the admin panel of mail manager provided by gmail.
https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/ensolnepal.com/images/logo.gif
This is what I got, as of now:
so far, so good.
This is where the logo of third party sites are hosted. If I just change the domain name,
https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/ioe.edu.np/images/logo.gif
Wow, I haven't even logged into my college's webmail and I can see the logo that was uploaded for the logged in users to see.
I requested webadmin of my college to set up an email for me after this and the logo that appeared before seemed to be the real thing.
This is the thing I am talking about:
Now, lets just play around
https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/facebook.com/images/logo.gif
This is what is seen as of now:
Well, well, what the heck!
Facebook uses google's mail service ?
I couldn't find a rational explanation for "No, they don't".
and twitter?
https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/twitter.com/images/logo.gif
You could just replace the URL to see if the site uses gmail as their mail service provider:
Now, lets see whether some other sites use gmail:
https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/alexa.com/images/logo.gif
Nope, since gmail's default logo appears, they dont seem to use gmail.(That's my explanation)
I don't yet know if this is totally random but I checked for several domains I possess (and few of my friends) and it appears to be true in those particular cases.
If you have gmail as your mail service provider and you are seeing something different, (or even if you think this is b***s***,) feel free to mention in comments.
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