features i'd love to see in gmail, what are some of yours?

[jamie]

I would love to see the gmail address book be similar to yahoo's, I
like it where you can just select the ones you want ( without typing ),
then just click on insert addresses.

- jamie

P.S. I'd also like to see a block sender feature, or block domain,
because report spam doesn't always work.

[Kishyr Ramdial]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:27:31 -0800, jamie <jami...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would love to see the gmail address book be similar to yahoo's, I
> like it where you can just select the ones you want ( without typing ),
> then just click on insert addresses.

I'd like to see GPG signing and/or encryption of outgoing emails.


--
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http://kishyr.ramdial.co.za
Get Firefox! http://www.getfirefox.com

[Derek]

i'd love to see some imap support

[andy erickson]

i'd like to see some POP3 access and for the sign in page to be
different because the boxes for account name + password don't show up
in my school because the blocker is gay and because of how the page
was written.

[Derek]

gmail does offer pop3 access... as for the sign in page, google for gmail-lite

[Delta]

where is the pop3? and thanks for gmail lite, hopefully i can get to
it in school. (DAMN N2H2 AND DAMN THAT DOG BESS!)

--
-Andy 'Delta' 'Theegodlobster' 'TheeDarkGodLobster'
http://www.getfirefox.com

[Derek]

go to settings > pop/forwarding. i was assuming that all gmail
accounts recieved the upgrade.

unless you meant pop3 support for other accounts so you could download
messages into you gmail account... they don't have that feature.

[Delta]

no its for a program I have called empromter basically you feed it
your email addresses + passes and it checks up to like 8 mail accouns
for you. it can work wiht nearly anything.

[Joe]

I want a Gmail Calendar that I can use to link to other people's (and
public) calendars. I'm sure Google is working on this, but it's what
I'd like to see..

[Scott Villarosa]

try using gmail-lite. i'll email you the link if you want it [thinks to add
it to the group's FAQ]. :P

s.

[Scott Villarosa]

omg... i just posted the same thing. :P derek, great minds think alike... :P

s.

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek [mailto:derek.p...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 23 November 2004 8:22 AM
To: gmail-ge...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [Gmail-Generation] Re: features i'd love to see in gmail, what are
some of yours?

[Derek]

probably wouldn't be a bad idea to post the link in the faq

[Scott Villarosa]

there's a service like this already called RSS CALENDAR. google for it and
check it out.. maybe google could look at something like this for gmail.

s.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe [mailto:josep...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:04 AM
To: Gmail-Ge...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [Gmail-Generation] Re: features i'd love to see in gmail, what are
some of yours?

[Scott Villarosa]

yeah... i'll do it after lunch. there's lots of people using it though (on
their servers). can you email me the most stable link you've got?

s.

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek [mailto:derek.p...@gmail.com]

[Simon]

Thunderbird's calendar is also able to do this as is the Sunbird.

[Scott Villarosa]

i'd really love to see some quoted messages man... otherwise i (we) don't
know what the heck you're talking about. try email subscription and see how
annoying this really is! so quote! it's in the freakin' faq eh
<http://gmail-generation.url123.com/reminder-notice-faq>.

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon [mailto:miku...@grandecom.net]
Sent: Tuesday, 23 November 2004 4:15 PM
To: Gmail-Ge...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [Gmail-Generation] Re: features i'd love to see in gmail, what are
some of yours?

[pat]

I'd like to see a calendar, reminders and notes. I'm using MyWay for
those, but it would be great to have it all in gmail.

[nekteo]

about the address book there is a way juz :
1)Click 'Contacts' along the left side of any Gmail page.
2)Select all contacts you would like to send a message to by checking
the boxes next to their names.
3)Click 'Compose.'

[Delta]

Thanks for all the help guys, is there a way to get the Google groups
page for this? it uses the same style of sign-in as does gmail, any
suggestions? other than writing a virus to delete Bess off of my
schools network.

[Derek]

please leave the qouted message behind so other users know what
message you are replying to

http://gmail-generation.url123.com/reminder-notice-faq

[jamie]

I'd like to see a sign in securely feature ( or accessing from public
terminal ).
- jamie

[Derek]

you can sign in securely by going to https://gmail.google.com

[Kishyr Ramdial]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:45:07 -0800, Derek <derek.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> you can sign in securely by going to https://gmail.google.com

Yeah, it's already secure enough. High-grade 256 bit encryption.

[jeroen]

Yep, but this workaround doesn't work when you are forwarding mail.
Then you still have to manual type your email addresses :-(

[cyberdiva]

Is there a way to change the FAQ so that you can direct people to
specific passages? Simply saying that something is in the FAQ is less
helpful, since the FAQ is pretty long.

[Scott Villarosa]

hey cyberdiva, appreciate your concern but this is an admin issue. in
future, therefore, please email myself or a mod to post us your feedback.
thanks for the input eh.

to answer your question:

yes, i'll add some anchor links to each "rule". thanks again. :P

s.

-----Original Message-----
From: cyberdiva [mailto:cybe...@lycos.com]
Sent: Saturday, 27 November 2004 12:33 PM
To: Gmail-Ge...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [Gmail-Generation] Re: features i'd love to see in gmail, what are
some of yours?

[cyberdiva]

I don't think I've got the hang of this Google Groups interface. I
wanted to add to the "features I'd love to see in gmail" thread, but to
do that, I have to reply to a message that has nothing to do with what
I want to say. I'm not really replying to jeroen's message, but if I
don't reply to his or someone else's message, my only alternative is to
start a new thread. Have I missed something?

[cyberdiva]

Here's a feature I'd like to see in Gmail: an easy way to reply to a
message by quoting just a small part of someone's message or not
quoting anything at all, rather than quoting the entire message. On my
main email client, I can simply highlight part of a message and hit
reply, causing just the highlighted part to be quoted. It's great for
dealing with long messages. Also, I run an email list where I
sometimes have to approve messages, and the only way I can approve them
is if I'm able to reply with just the letters "OK" - my reply has to be
totally blank except for OK. In Gmail, that's very inconvenient to do,
whereas in my main email client, I can choose on the fly whether to
quote the entire message, just a selection, or none of the message.
I'd like that same flexibility in Gmail. I could never think of using
Gmail as my main email without that feature.

[Scott Villarosa]

no, you are right. the web interface really blows. i'd suggest using gmail
to handle your list messages. you can create a filter by using TO:
"Gmail-Ge...@googlegroups.com" & subject "[Gmail-Generation]". send our
mail to a defined label (like "Gmail-Generation") and you'll find it a lot
easier to use the group. you can also email google and tell them how sucky
their web interface is, perhaps.

s.

visit <http://groups-beta.google.com/group/Gmail-Generation/subscribe> to
change your settings for group mail.

-----Original Message-----
From: cyberdiva [mailto:cybe...@lycos.com]
Sent: Saturday, 27 November 2004 12:47 PM
To: Gmail-Ge...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [Gmail-Generation] Re: features i'd love to see in gmail, what are
some of yours?

[Scott Villarosa]

does that exist in other online clients? i think this could be a good
feature for gmail, really... especially because it could be easily done
using javascript. make a suggestion to google. good work. :P


s.

-----Original Message-----
From: cyberdiva [mailto:cybe...@lycos.com]
Sent: Saturday, 27 November 2004 12:52 PM
To: Gmail-Ge...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [Gmail-Generation] Re: features i'd love to see in gmail, what are
some of yours?

[cyberdiva]

Scott wrote: "i'd really love to see some quoted messages man...

otherwise i (we) don't know what the heck you're talking about. try
email subscription and see how annoying this really is! so quote! it's
in the freakin' faq eh"

I'm new to this list, and I am using the web interface to read and post
messages. I can't figure out how to quote from previous messages on
the web interface. Can someone please clue me in? TIA.

[Scott Villarosa]

just copy and paste text from the original message, like this....

> I'm new to this list, and I am using the web interface to read and post
messages.

yeah... blah blah...

s.

-----Original Message-----
From: cyberdiva [mailto:cybe...@lycos.com]
Sent: Saturday, 27 November 2004 1:00 PM
To: Gmail-Ge...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [Gmail-Generation] Re: features i'd love to see in gmail, what are
some of yours?

[cyberdiva]

Scott wrote: "no, you are right. the web interface really blows. i'd

suggest using gmail to handle your list messages. you can create a
filter by using TO:"

Well, I guess I'm glad to know I didn't miss something obvious, but I
almost wish I had! I don't want to use my Gmail account for this list.
Having so many list messages mixed in among my other messages would
make it very hard for me to eyeball my inbox. In theory, I really
like the idea of "labels," but in practice, I find it harder to look at
my Gmail inbox as opposed to my main email client inbox, where I've
filtered all list mail into separate folders and thus out of my inbox.
That's one of several reasons why I really prefer to read newsgroup
messages via the web. It's a pity that the Google web interface is so
poorly designed. Maybe I'll take your advice and drop Google a note
about this.

[Gordon Stewart]

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 18:28:36 -0800, cyberdiva <cybe...@lycos.com> wrote:

> Having so many list messages mixed in among my other messages would
> make it very hard for me to eyeball my inbox. In theory, I really
> like the idea of "labels," but in practice, I find it harder to look at
> my Gmail inbox as opposed to my main email client inbox, where I've
> filtered all list mail into separate folders and thus out of my inbox.
> That's one of several reasons why I really prefer to read newsgroup
> messages via the web. It's a pity that the Google web interface is so
> poorly designed. Maybe I'll take your advice and drop Google a note
> about this.

you can filter your mail into labels & tick the top box, which REMOVES
it from 'inbox'

so its just in your labels :)

--

G Stewart
Gmails :-
gmailinv...@yahoogroups.com.

[Scott Villarosa]

there is also this group where you can post stuff that google's techs will
notice (gg2 related)
<http://groups-beta.google.com/group/google-labs-groups2>

s.

-----Original Message-----
From: cyberdiva [mailto:cybe...@lycos.com]
Sent: Saturday, 27 November 2004 1:29 PM
To: Gmail-Ge...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [Gmail-Generation] Re: features i'd love to see in gmail, what are
some of yours?

[Scott Villarosa]

he doesn't want to use gmail for groups, though, gordon.

s.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gordon Stewart [mailto:gordo...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, 27 November 2004 1:33 PM
To: gmail-ge...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [Gmail-Generation] Re: features i'd love to see in gmail, what are
some of yours?

[Derek]

if you click the qouted text link underneath the message you'll see
the message that the person is replying to

[jeroen]

This is how I understand it works. Correct me if I'm wrong (Scott?).
There are two ways of replying. The first one is the reply link which
is hidden behind the 'show options' link (used for this reply) and the
second is the reply link right at the bottom of the message (the one
you used).
The first one creates the 'show quoted text' link and the other one is
used to post a new thread in the topic.

[Scott Villarosa]

hey j, i guess you've got it right, but the quick reply link still works
okay (and that's what it is for). we only stress to leave quotes in so other
members know what you're talking about, but otherwise any way you reply is
fine. does that clear things up for you?

s.

-----Original Message-----
From: jeroen [mailto:jbran...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, 27 November 2004 11:09 PM
To: Gmail-Ge...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [Gmail-Generation] Re: features i'd love to see in gmail, what are
some of yours?

[jeroen]

Replacing the 'start new topic' link at the top of the screen when you
are allready in a topic with a 'post new message' link would be a big
improvement. I think this link is the main reason why this group was
'spamed' so much with all the requests for free invitations in the
first place.
It's almost hard not to make that mistake, since you have to hit reply
if you want to post a new message...

[Scott Villarosa]

please, pass on this suggestion to google. they need to hear this stuff.

also, you can subscribe via individual message. it's much better using
groups that way, especially with gmail's conversation view. :P

s.

-----Original Message-----
From: jeroen [mailto:jbran...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, 27 November 2004 11:22 PM
To: Gmail-Ge...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [Gmail-Generation] Re: features i'd love to see in gmail, what are
some of yours?