Comments on: Keep it coming, Gmail

By: Stephen G

Stephen G — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:55:04 +0000

Unless POP3 users manually peruse the SPAM folder on the gmail website they do not have the ability to identify false positives. IMAP does let a mail client access the SPAM folder but IMAP is (and will always be) too slow, in my opinion, for most mail.

I see that gmail allows a prefix for at least one option … recent:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47948&disablechatbrowsercheck=1
or http://tinyurl.com/382blo

That would be a great way to let POP3 users access the spam folder. e.g., spam:username@gmail.com would download only from the spam folder. I’ve also seen this format for other POP3 services:
username@gmail.com?folder=spam
but gmail doesn’t yet use that.

This would let me download spam to a separate inbox on my local mail client (e.g,. Thunderbird), but it still wouldn’t be transparent. Thunderbird would need the ability for me to specify which folder new mail should go to. Currently, I can specify that it go to the inbox folder for the separate account that I created, or it can go to the inbox for the Local Folders. But I really want to set the target as the spam folder in the Local Folders.

I guess I should learn to love IMAP and stop trying to figure out how to continue staying with POP3.

By: GromoHosting

GromoHosting — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 13:22:41 +0000

there is no doubt that google is leader in Internet world, i will not wonder one day google will be in every sector.
yahoo still charging for pop3 access but google by introducing Gmail made it availabe free

By: Heather Paquinas

Heather Paquinas — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:39:27 +0000

I wish there was an option to thread emails by the message-id rather than merely the subject. For example all of my mysql backups with phpmybackuppro all go into a single conversation, so it makes it hard to see that the backups are happening just by looking at my website backup label because they are part of the same conversation (eg they are auto-archived and labeled).

By: Shaik

Shaik — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:32:56 +0000

There are 2 things I would like to suggest. The first is concerned with signatures and I suppose should be easy to accomplish.They should allow more than one signatures and also when I reply to an email, I like my signature after the text that I enter as a reply to that mail not after the text of the email I am replying to. If there are people who like it the way it is, gmail should provide an option specifying where the signature will be placed for replies of emails.
The second thing is integration with orkut. I think they should have a tighter integration with orkut as its a very popular service and can serve as a good way of managing contacts.

By: Tim Jordan

Tim Jordan — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:40:46 +0000

I would like to add a button to say always archive from this seller and instantly create a rule that will always archive e-mails from the sender so I will never have to see it in my inbox again. Does anyone know of a script or way to get this done? TimJordan AT cheerful DOt c o m

By: Kevin Bridges

Kevin Bridges — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 13:07:53 +0000

Would be great to be able to hide the highlighted Spam folder and count on the left … It’s great that it contains thousands of messages not directed to my inbox … kind annoying I have to constantly look at a reminder that i have thousands of spam messages.

By: Janus Daniels

Janus Daniels — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 23:12:03 +0000

better search:
ability to find all mail from Comcast, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. in my acct.
misspelling gets a ‘Did you mean?’ like google.com search does.
more search options, like Boolean, wildcards, contains, etc.

By: Lucas Arruda

Lucas Arruda — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 03:30:06 +0000

I would like, for sure, a better search. That`s one of the biggest things GMail lacks.

Also, I don`t know if it`s proposital, but I would like to update a Draft and not to loose it`s labels. Sometimes it`s better to have a memo in a draft than send it to yourself.

By: chilipepr

chilipepr — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:55:10 +0000

right now, gmail has one checkbox and three buttons (archive, report spam and delete)

so, when you come in in the morning, you:
1- scan your new emails for spam and check
2- click “report spam” button
3- scan your new emails that you want to delete and check
4- click delete
5- scan your new emails for email you would like to archive and check
6- click archive
7-read the rest.

I would love to see one “process” Button and three checkboxes (archive, spam and delete)

so the process would be, when you come in in the morning, you:
1- scan your new emails and check appropriate box and check
2- click “Process” button
3- read the rest.

By: Kendoll

Kendoll — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:13:32 +0000

I would like to be able to add keywords to e-mails. While gmail search is great it’s not perfect. Sometimes I purposefully load my e-mails with key words so I can find them later, it would be nice to be able to do the same thing after an e-mail has already been sent.