Who thinks gmail should come out with their own mail client?

[Derek]

so who here thinks gmail should or will come out with their own
pop/imap mail client? im kind of hoping they have something up their
sleeves. something that they're working on deep inside the gmail
dungeons.

[Tom Scott]

Who knows what they are working on next, I read somewhere that they are
working on a version of their own IM, so we shall see in due course.

[Derek]

yeh i remember talk about google working on their own im client. i
made a quick mock up of what i thought i was going to look like.

i really want to see gmail/google come out with its own mail client
for windows anc mac.

[Chrissie]

Is that just for the sake of neatness Derek or cos you think google
would just do a better job than what's available already?

--
There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand
binary, and those who don't.

[Derek]

google could do a better job =p i don't like being forced to save
message in order to see all correspondances with other users

[Ashish Poddar]

i wud support this thread for the latter reason! ... i dont think ne1
here doubts that gmail has dont a much much better job than any other
existing email clients... be it streaming internet types (thru
IE/firefox/..) or email clients (outlook/netscape email client/..)

regards,
Ashish.

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 04:35:41 +0800, Chrissie <christi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>

--
Ashish Poddar
Y! - ashish_poddar | MSN - ashish...@yahoo.com

- If you expect nothing, nothing is unexpected.
- If you expect everything, everything is as expected.

[Scott Villarosa]

derek,

here's something i read on a google blog (unofficial). it's worthy of a read
b/c the guy backs up his statements with good evidence, kind of.

http://insidegoogle.blogspot.com/2004/10/hello-whats-this-its-googles-most.h
tml

[Derek]

sorry scott what were you trying to point out with that link? i
already knew about picasa...

[Scott Villarosa]

i was trying to elude to the fact that google are working on "something"..
but we just don't really know what it is. they seem to be buying out these
technologies and working towards a common goal. that ties in to what you
were saying, doesn't it?

s.

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek [mailto:derek.p...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, 14 November 2004 5:08 PM
To: gmail-ge...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [Gmail-Generation] Re: Who thinks gmail should come out with their
own mail client?

[dani007nl]

would be really great if Gmailwould work with let's say Thunderbird?

[Derek]

like i said in another one of your posts... gmail pop access is slowly
being added to gmail users accounts. as soon as this happens you can
access your gmail through thunderbird

[Bob Billy]

i want pop waaaa

[kael]

Personally, I like Thunderbird a lot and wish I could use it to access
to Gmail via IMAP.

All the folders would be displayed like for a normal email accounts.
Labels would be displayed with Thunderbird labels (with IMAP keywords)
in mailboxes and each labels would be turned into sub-folders. Fusemail
provides virtual folders comparable to Gmail labels
http://www.fusemail.com/services/searchfolder.html.

Unfortunately, Thunderbird currently supports five labels only
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114656.

So, if Thunderbird could support an unlimited number of labels and Gmail
be accessible via IMAP, it would be perfect for me. :-)

Cheers.

--
kael

[kael]

dani007nl wrote:

> would be really great if Gmailwould work with let's say Thunderbird?

I agree.

Contacts could be accessible via LDAP like it is possible with Axentra
http://axentra.net; see https://axentra.net/help/index#ldap_mz - the
_Contacts Sidebar_ extension makes Thunderbird address book easily
accessible http://jpeters.no-ip.com/extensions/index.php?page=tb_cs.

Gmail contacts via LDAP ! I want it ! :-)

Also, I wish they could include a _calendar_ compatible with the
_Calendar Extension_ a.k.a Mozilla Sunbird with private and
shared/public calendars using the iCalendar format.

And Gmail would be excellent !

--
kael

[Derek]

yeah i like the idea of making some sort of calendar... that was
something i've wanted for awhile just so i could have a quick glance
to get my bearings. i also thought of the idea of being able to click
on a date on the calendar and being able to see all corresponding
emails related to that day.

[kael]

Derek wrote:

> i also thought of the idea of being able to click on a date on the
> calendar and being able to see all corresponding emails related to that day.

This is a great idea ! Indexing and sorting emails by date is something
missing in Gmail - unless I have missed something ? :-k

Like with 'Contacts', the calendar may allow to click on a date and to
see all corresponding emails related to that day. Great idea !

--
kael

[hucktunes]

I think they could probably design a very good mail client. I use
Outlook Express. I've tried Eudora and didn't think it worthwhile for
it's complexity.

[Michael Keating]

Gmails mail client is currently __(insert you browser of choice here)__

But that would be cool...

--
Michael
Gclone- http://tinyurl.com/6d6m2
My Goals- http://tinyurl.com/693zd
Email me at Michae1 16 at gmail dot c0m if you
found a bug, or a feature isnt working.

[Cracell]

I don't think it would be wise for them unless they included a place
for ads in it

simply because it encourages pop and I think from a business
standpoint it's wise to offer it since most probaly won't use it, but
to make a client just seems like a waste of resources

plus I'd rather they improve the web gmail

still waiting for that html version

but ya I'm sure they could make a pretty sweet gmail client

btw hucktunes have you tried thunderbird from mozilla it's decent

--
-Cracell
http://the-system-is-down.blogspot.com/ - Read it and comment

[Michael Keating]

I would love to make gclone like that... Where it could be like a
proxy that installs as maybe a firefox extention and syndicates(is
that the right word) your email throgh a gclone proxy

[Ashish Poddar]

hmmm ya that can be a matter of discussion here for sure... and that
is one of the things that truly confuses me a lot... gmail is giving
pop service... gmail API is not far away if not already here... there
can be many many ad *free* interfaces for accessing gmail... then how
will google collect the revenues... without ads... which is THE only
source of income, how will gmail sustain its growth...

regards,
Ashish.

--
Ashish Poddar
We cannot solve the problems we have created with the same thinking
that created them - Albert Einstein
Y:ashish_poddar | MSN:ashish...@yahoo.com

[hucktunes]

I searched for the site a couple of days ago. I'll try again. I thought
it was another browser. But then my sister told me she uses Thunderbird.

[hucktunes]

Well I installed Thunderbird and it didn't import the correct settings,
so I entered them manually. But it won't play the goofy midi files that
some of my friends like to attach to messages, and I can't find any
plugins. Surly google could do a better job.

[hucktunes]

Also Thunderbird seems to only accept only one smtp server. A good mail
client should allow multiple pop AND smtp servers. I use different
accounts for dirfferent projects.

[Michael Keating]

Thunderbird does support that.

Got to account settings>smpt

click the advanced button

[the bonehead]

Oh, but you must know how to do it right. If you have more than one
address, then go to the sidebar and click on the right account, then
switch the smtp server to the one you want to use for that account.

[alexn817]

I would like to see this, but first they should work on perfecting all
their beta programs. Such as GDS.

- Alex
www.talktrix.net

[hucktunes]

A good feature for a mail client would be to scan the messages and
report the size, then give you the option to leave a message on the
server so you can deal with it later.

[david.p...@gmail.com]

Who knows, but I don't think so. They have a lot of work on webmail.
So, it's resonable to finish it first. IMHO we have many very good
mail/groupware clients on all platforms (Mozilla & co., Evolution,
Kontact, Outlook and many small projects).

Current web interface is good, but for example one our freemail
provider is testing "Gigacentrum" and it looks better than gmail. No
ofense, they took good things from gmail and add them to their work.
Features: Drag&drop technology for sorting emails in folders or adding
contacts to mail, variable skins (I mean sorting in threads and so),
PGP and many others. It's still in private testing, but in month or two
it will be open for public... I think, Google should on the first place
"secure" his position between webmails.

[kael]

david.p...@gmail.com wrote:
> Who knows, but I don't think so. They have a lot of work on webmail.
> So, it's resonable to finish it first. IMHO we have many very good
> mail/groupware clients on all platforms (Mozilla & co., Evolution,
> Kontact, Outlook and many small projects).

*Nancy McGough* made a very interesting /prediction/ about IMAP
implementation for Gmail in news:comp.mail.imap http://tinyurl.com/62dvh.

----------------------------------------------------------------
"Here's a prediction: Since there aren't any IMAP clients that
would really work with Gmail right now, I bet that Gmail is
creating their own desktop IMAP client and that they are going to
release Gmail server-side IMAP simultaneously with the Gmail IMAP
client. (You heard it here first :-))"
-----------------------------------------------------------------

--
kael