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Life is written in chapters but the table of contents is missing.


29 Oct

Improving your GMail IMAP experience


GMail (or “Google Mail” for the rest of us outside the U.S.) has introduced IMAP access to their users’ mailboxes quite a while ago. Fred has written about using your GMail IMAP account with popular mail clients such as Apple’s Mail.app or Mozilla Thunderbird, I was giving my two cents on the GMail Trash folder.

Today, I learned about a new feature from Google Labs (it’s beta, just in case…): you are now able to fine-tune how deleted mails are handled. So far, all deleted mail stayed in the “All mails” folder. Forever. If you really wanted to delete that crappy newsletter from your favourite airline, you had to log in to the Google Mail website, find that particular mail (you still remembered that you planned to delete that mail when you actually accessed GMail over the web, didn’t you?) and trash it there.

With Advanced IMAP Controls in GMail, you will now be able to either delete your a mail if it is not visible in any view or (that’s the feature I was really looking for) you can even delete an e-mail right away. Click and gone. Nice. That’s how it’s meant to be.


02 Oct

Continental Airlines: Not receiving the newsletter?


Continental Airlines e-mail newsletter

Dear Continental customer service,

only because I don’t allow my e-mail program to open e-mails containing images automatically and hence not invoking the embedded web bugs in your newsletters (hey, this isn’t Windows and Outlook Express, OK?) doesn’t necessarily mean that I am not reading your monthly status update and new promotions and interesting offers and … whatever.

Hey, wait a second. I am not. In fact I never do. At least most of the time. Oh well, I do check my frequent traveller mileage account. But that’s it. I don’t want any other information from you and I couldn’t think of a reason why I should let you know if I did read your spam.

Thanks for the ><(({°>.

JP


16 Nov

Poppen mit GMail


Heute habe ich beim Einloggen auf GMail in der rechten oberen Ecke einen nicht zu übersehenden Link mit dem reißereischen Titel “New Features!” entdeckt :)

Siehe da, auch mein GMail-Account wurde jetzt für POP3 aktiviert (das passiert sukzessive mit allen GMail-Accounts), so dass ich meine Mails jetzt auch ohne den POP3 Wrapper abholen kann.

Sehr schön :)

(Wobei ich den Fehler gemacht habe, anzugeben, dass beim nächsten POP3-Aufruf alle Nachrichten synchronisiert werden sollen… Da waren auch diverse Mailinglisten dabei. Na wenigstens weiß ich jetzt, dass das KMail-Icon im “Systembereich der Kontrollleiste” auch eine vierstellige Anzahl ungelesener Mails verträgt, ohne, dass es blöd aussieht (vielleicht ein bisschen klein, aber man ist ja nicht so wählerisch).