> Yeah. That's why I said instead of them adding to your personal
> contact list, they should auto add to a 'whitelist' which the spam
> filter can cross reference on incoming mail to help determine whether
> it's spam or not. =)
> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:10:35 +0100, Lee Gibbs <lee.gi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ah, T. M. Tracey - you joined Gmail-Users, cool.
> > I've read some of your posts on GmailForums.
> > I suppose sorting e-mails when searched for isn't a bad idea.
> > Ed's ideas seem good as well.
> > Just one suggestion for Gmail: I think there should be a disabling
> > option for Gmail not automatically adding people to your contacts
> > list. When you send an e-mail to someone, I find Gmail adds the
> > recipient's name to your contact list - with no confirmation at all.
> > --
> > Lee
> > (lee.gi...@gmail.com)
Yeah, the hiearchy would be a must. That makes sense. I didn't even
think of that. The whitelist I like that idea, I hate removing people
from my contact list that I don't want on it...
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 16:54:14 -0400, Kendel <kken...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's a good suggestion, a "not spam" white-list separate from the
> contact list.
Something else that I would like to see is a 'find similar' button. That way when I'm reading a message, I can click a button and find all
the message that the sender has sent to me, or maybe emails that have
similar subject matter in the body of the emails or something.
Right. But the daemon wouldn't have any way to find out if the
message was READ of opened. All they could tell you is that it was
successfully delivered.
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 16:19:10 -0400, Kendel <kken...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The delvery confermation...That sorta of thing isn't supported by
> > webmail clients that I know of. I know in outlook and programs like
> > that, they will send along special info for the message in a
> > winmail.dat file...that's where the 'reciept for message' info is held
> > among other things.
> Depends: what you describe OE and whatnot having is a "read
> confirmation" -- it gets triggered (iirc) when you read the mail. The
> mailer-daemon that handles dropping the message into your account in
> the first place actually handles the delivery confirmation, as that is
> when it is actually delivered. And that shouldn't matter if it is a
> webmail client or not, just if the local postmaster has the feature.
> I understand Gmail's emphasis on "archiving" all mails etc, but still
> a simple T = trash shortcut would be nice..
> Also, while in conversation view, I'd like the option to *not* return
> to the Inbox after archiving or marking a message as spam -- i.e. just
> move onto displaying the next message.
> Finally, out of laziness, it's annoying when you have only one mail in
> your Inbox, but still you have to select it before you can archive it.
> What I'm saying is that if there's only one mail available, and you
> press archive or whatever, Gmail should realise that the one message
> is implicitly selected (instead of complaining "you haven't selected
> any conversations").
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 16:15:05 -0400, Kendel <kken...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Something that I would like to see... is the abbility to have
> > different signatures for different lables. When you reply to one
> > lable, it defaults a different signature.
> The problem there is when a thread matches two (or more) labels; you'd
> have to set up an hierarchy system for it.
Good point.
But I definitely would like to have to possibility to manage more than
one signature.
What about link it to the "to" address ?
Ciao,
Paolo
-- ever tried. ever failed. no matter.
try again. fail again. fail better.
-- Samuel Beckett
> 1) An option to delete attachments manually.
> Sometimes, after having sent a mail, I no longer wish to keep the
> attachment in the sent folder (so to say). I just want to keep the
> write up as part of the conversation flow. This option to rmove
> attachment could be helpful for both incoming and outgoing mails.
Yes! That's the one I keep forgetting to suggest as well.
After all, if someone sends you a file, and you FWD it to someone
else, why maintain the second copy?
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 08:38:11 -0700, Ed Gowen <ego...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I wonder if it might be appropriate to start a Gmail Wish List thread.
> I have submitted several suggestions but don't know how my suggestions
> would be viewed by others.
Hi Ed,
I have read some really good ideas in the replies, thanks for starting
the thread.
I would like to see a couple more buttons for the search box, in
addition to "search mail" and "search the web" to wit: "create a
Google Web Alert", "create a Google News Alert" and if a URL is
entered, "send me this page."
> Yeah. That's why I said instead of them adding to your personal
> contact list, they should auto add to a 'whitelist' which the spam
> filter can cross reference on incoming mail to help determine whether
> it's spam or not. =)
> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:10:35 +0100, Lee Gibbs <lee.gi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ah, T. M. Tracey - you joined Gmail-Users, cool.
> > I've read some of your posts on GmailForums.
> > I suppose sorting e-mails when searched for isn't a bad idea.
> > Ed's ideas seem good as well.
> > Just one suggestion for Gmail: I think there should be a disabling
> > option for Gmail not automatically adding people to your contacts
> > list. When you send an e-mail to someone, I find Gmail adds the
> > recipient's name to your contact list - with no confirmation at all.
> > --
> > Lee
> > (lee.gi...@gmail.com)
> I would like to see a couple more buttons for the search box, in
> addition to "search mail" and "search the web" to wit: "create a
> Google Web Alert", "create a Google News Alert" and if a URL is
> entered, "send me this page."
Those are not a bad ideas at all.
What might be nice, if a bit more complex, is in addition to the
"Search Mail" and "Search the Web" field at top (you enter data in
field, and then click one of those buttons" maybe also have those
buttons check for any highlighted text on the page -- anything the
used has highlighted with the cursor -- and, if so, use that
information when the user clicks one of those top buttons.
Similarly, a "create a Google Web Alert" and "create a Google News
Alert" button with a similar functionality.
So, say, a friend emails you something about Britney Spears. You
could just highlight her name, and then click "create a Google News
Alert" and it would create one for "Britney Spears".
Yeah. That's why I said instead of them adding to your personal
contact list, they should auto add to a 'whitelist' which the spam
filter can cross reference on incoming mail to help determine whether
it's spam or not. =)
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 20:10:35 +0100, Lee Gibbs <lee.gi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah, T. M. Tracey - you joined Gmail-Users, cool.
> I've read some of your posts on GmailForums.
> I suppose sorting e-mails when searched for isn't a bad idea.
> Ed's ideas seem good as well.
> Just one suggestion for Gmail: I think there should be a disabling
> option for Gmail not automatically adding people to your contacts
> list. When you send an e-mail to someone, I find Gmail adds the
> recipient's name to your contact list - with no confirmation at all.
> --
> Lee
> (lee.gi...@gmail.com)
I just think that it might add more complexity then they want. I
don't know, you know google likes to keep things simple, might add to
much clutter...who know. =)
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 17:10:03 -0400, Kendel <kken...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I would like to see a couple more buttons for the search box, in
> > addition to "search mail" and "search the web" to wit: "create a
> > Google Web Alert", "create a Google News Alert" and if a URL is
> > entered, "send me this page."
> Those are not a bad ideas at all.
> What might be nice, if a bit more complex, is in addition to the
> "Search Mail" and "Search the Web" field at top (you enter data in
> field, and then click one of those buttons" maybe also have those
> buttons check for any highlighted text on the page -- anything the
> used has highlighted with the cursor -- and, if so, use that
> information when the user clicks one of those top buttons.
> Similarly, a "create a Google Web Alert" and "create a Google News
> Alert" button with a similar functionality.
> So, say, a friend emails you something about Britney Spears. You
> could just highlight her name, and then click "create a Google News
> Alert" and it would create one for "Britney Spears".
