Email

A few years ago, I remember having like 400 email messages in my inbox and feeling completely overwhelmed. I wanted to get through them all but then did the math. If I spent only one minute answering each email, that was going to take an entire day. And more would come in, plus I knew many of them [...]

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About two weeks ago, I dived in to merge two years worth of mail from one Gmail account to my existing Google Apps mail account. I wanted to cover how it went and how it caused me inadvertently to abandon my cherished desktop client, Outlook, for two weeks. No, it didn’t make me a web-based email convert. But perhaps [...]

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I’ve had a Gmail account since the day they were first offered, back in April 2004. Then at the end of 2006, I opened up a new Google-hosted mail account under my own domain name using Google Apps, which I highly recommend. It provided me with all the great archiving and spam filtering that made me move to Gmail, plus it [...]

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For whatever reason, I couldn’t get some of my messages from Outlook to actually send through Gmail this weekend. I went through the various things I’ve tried when this has happened in the past and settled on the solution of deleting my Gmail account settings and entering them anew into Outlook. When I went to get the right settings from Gmail [...]

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For some reason, every few days I’m suddenly unable to send email from Outlook 2003 via my Gmail account. This has gone on for the past several months. Sometimes I can resolve it by restarting Outlook. Usually, I can only solve it by entirely rebooting my computer. That’s a pain, but rebooting has given me a hint to the [...]

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I posted over at the SEW Blog today about Gmail going down yet again for me, not allowing me to POP download. Just out of the blue, suddenly I was given username and password errors as I’ve had before. Usually, I’ve been able to correct these errors in various ways, as I’ve covered in these past posts:

Gmail, Can I Have [...]

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So much to do, so much to write — and major hassle factor as Gmail holds my email hostage, pretending my username and password isn’t valid. OK, I can get in via the web. I can send mail via SMTP. But if I want to POP download, that’s not happening. That hasn’t been happening for at least 5 [...]

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I’ve written before that I wish Gmail would allow you to build better blacklists, sort your inbox alphabetically, see more than 100 results at a time or nab non-English mail from hitting my inbox, all as ways to stop spam. On the "a picture’s worth a thousand words" front, here’s a visual illustration of why all that would be helpful:

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Earlier, I wrote about Gmail’s bogus "Custom From" system that doesn’t hide your Gmail address even if you tell Gmail you want another email address to show. I got an email from someone similarly irked by it, telling me that there’s now a petition to ask Google to fix this. Would I sign? Sure. I’m now signatory number two. [...]

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