Every wonder how Gmail’s spam filter does such a great job at catching real spam while minimizing false positives? Google put together a pretty nice video (love the bad music and bad acting) outlining the basic concepts behind how their spam filter works. One thing I didn’t realize… they use optical character recognition to scan inline images to catch image spam. Nice!
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Via: Official Gmail Blog
As you may know, Google is adding IMAP access to Gmail. A day and a half later my Gmail account is still IMAP-less. They said it would be happening to all accounts over the next couple of days, so I’m not worried.
What’s interesting to me, though, is that it seems like everyone who didn’t get it immediately still hasn’t gotten it. I’m constantly reading (and posting…) messages on Twitter about accounts getting no IMAP love, still. Even larger sites like Download Squad and TUAW seem to be out in the cold here. I imagine that Google would have to activate the features on a server-by-server basis… but it almost looks like Gmail operates on only 2 servers.
Question to you: If you didn’t get IMAP immediately the other night, have you gotten it since?
Wayne Sutton brought this to my attention on his blog with a screen shot of IMAP options in Gmail. Does this mean I can finally quit deleting messages twice, once on my phone and once in Gmail? Does this mean my Mail.app on my iPhone will actually tell me the true number of messages in my inbox? I think so!
Here’s the iPhone/Touch specific setup instructions for the new IMAP Gmail. It’s pretty ironic that now, to set up Gmail on an iPhone, you select other instead of Gmail in the setup wizard.
This has great implications for users of all mail clients, desktop (Thunderbird, Mail.app) and mobile (Mobile Outlook) alike. I don’t mean to be so iPhone focused, but it’s where IMAP Gmail is going to have the most impact for me personally.
It’s not showing up in my options yet, but hopefully it won’t be too long before it does.
Via: Wayne Sutton - w4 Network and Download Squad
“”Now Gmail can check for the mail you receive at your other email accounts. You can retrieve your mail (new and old) from up to five other email accounts and have them all in Gmail.” In limited release, but coming soon. Looks cool!”
Yes! This is excellent. I’ve always promoted merging all of your e-mail accounts to Gmail, but many friends couldn’t figure out how to forward e-mail from different accounts to Gmail. Now it won’t be an issue anymore.
Also, I just got some new web hosting, and I can’t get their server-side forwarding to work. Hopefully now I won’t have to mess with it anymore.
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I posted this in the Gmail-Users Group and wanted to echo it here.
Google releasing Google Maps Mobile for PalmOS is one of the best things to happen to the platform in a long time. The app is fast, clean, and stable. With its release my head started spinning as I realized the implications of Google’s interest in the PalmOS platform.
Gmail is accessable through POP of course, but then you lose your ability to star and tag messages. It’s features like these that are, to me, the bread and butter of Gmail. I currently use Opera Mini on my Treo 650 to use the WAP version of Gmail.
What I’d LOVE to see is a PalmOS client for Gmail. Such a client could let us quickly star, tag, and filter our messages. Address fields could auto-fill from our Gmail address book, and the app could even possibly sync our PalmOS address book with our online Gmail address book. Attachments could be sent and saved to and from our memory cards easily.
One of the most exciting things a Gmail client could offer is push e-mail… instant notification of new messages, perhaps based on existing Gmail filters. (Only alert me of messages from my “family” filter) Push Gmail would especially help those businesses that are using hosted Gmail accounts with the Google Apps for Your Domain
program.
Direct Link to the post in Gmail Users Group
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