Google are now offering the ability to search your Google Talk conversations in Google Mail. There are also

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Gmail has rolled out a delete button, so that users can now easily delete their mail instead of just archiving it (because despite what some people think, you could actually delete your mail before via the drop-down box of actions). This has come after a pretty long period of complaining by Gmail u...

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Months and months ago there was some commotion amongst Gmail users because suddenly they could choose their “from:” address when sending mails. Excellent! This would make replying to mailing lists much easier! Except it never appeared for me. There was supposed to be a new tab called “Accounts” on the Settings page. It wasn’t there. Today I was reading

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Any mail I receive that only contains Russian characters is spam. Ditto for Asian languages. Either Gmail‘s spam filter has been loosened, or the spammers are getting better, but I’m getting a lot more spam in my Gmail inbox these days. Oh well.

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One of the big things about Gmail is supposed to be how it deals with messages and threads. Everything is a “conversation“. There’s no flat view of all your mails. Except I don’t have any say in what’s a conversation and what’s not – it’s all worked out by Gmail. The machine is overlaying what it thinks is going on to what...

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Gmail appears to have gone crazy and started giving out masses of invites. Perhaps they just bought a load of new hardware or something? Anyway, if you want a Gmail account, drop me a line, and you’ll be arbitrarily judged 🙂 Posted from

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I hadn’t realised until just this minute that Gmail allows a query syntax similar to that of Lookout. Lookout’s search query syntax is so intuitive that I typed it into my Gmail search box without even realising, but when it returned the mails I actually wanted I was amazed! It’s all probably in the d...

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asa pointed out that some Blogger users are being given the opportunity to sign up for GMail accounts. So I logged in and voila! phil.wilson@gmail.com Let the spam begin. 🙂

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