> 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.  Perhaps by submitting them here, as well as
> by feedback message to the Gmail Team, we can get a consensus as to
> what changes would be most welcome. Just as a suggestion, if you think
> well of a change mentioned here, you might want to send a feedback
> message encouraging the Gmail Team to put it on the list for
> consideration.

> One of the things I'd like to see them add is delivery and read
> confirmation both within and outside of Gmail.  Email is sometime
> rather unreliable.  With other email accounts you can request a
> delivery and/or read confirmation.  As I understand it, a delivery
> confirmation is just a return email indicating the message made to to
> the destination email server and into the recipient's inbox.  A read
> confirmation indicates someone with access to the destination account
> has actually looked at the message, even if only to delete it a moment
> later.

> Another thing I'd like is to have them change is the way options are
> presented when a message is being viewed.  Right now, when you are
> looking at a message, you must click on the "More options" link to have
> access to the "Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Add sender to
> contacts list | Trash this message | Show original" links.  I'd like at
> least "Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Trash this message"
> available as soon as the message is displayed.  One way this could be
> implemented would to have this list of links on the right side under
> the "Expand All" link.  Another way would be to make the "More options"
> choice either persistent so once selected it would stay selected for
> any new viewed message throughout and between sessions.  Another
> possibility would be to add an account options choice of either
> "Display All Details for Viewed Messages" as opposed to "Minimize
> Details for Viewed Messages".

> My understanding is that Gmail allows attachments as long as the total
> size of the message is 10 Mbytes or less.  I also understand that
> executable attachments are not permitted and right now that includes
> executable attachments in archive files.  I can certainly understand
> limiting aggregate message size and I think it just good common sense
> to block executable attachments but I'm of the opinion that zip or
> other archives with executable content should be permitted and that the
> handling of messages with prohibited attachments should be changed.
> Right now the message is rejected and at least sometimes the sender is
> notified.  I'd rather let the message through to the recipient with a
> text message indicating that "One or more attachments have been deleted
> from this message because they violate Gmail policy on executable
> attachments or because they would cause the total message size to
> exceed 10 Mbytes."

> My final suggestion for the moment is to be able to sort the lists of
> root messages and the results of searches.  As the number of stored
> messages increases, it would be increasingly helpful to have them
> sorted by Sender/Receiver or Date either ascending or descending.
> Ideally you could also sort by both sender/receiver and date so the
> messages would be grouped by sender/receiver but within each
> sender/receiver they would be in date order.

> Well, thats my list for the moment.  Anybody out there care to comment
> on these or add their own pet items to the Wish List?

> Regards,

> Ed