Google to increase Gmail's inbox to 2GB and more

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News: Google to increase Gmail's inbox
to 2GB and more

News: Google to increase Gmail's inbox
to 2GB and more 04/01/2005 09:41 AM
Google Inc. on Friday plans to increase the in-box storage of its Gmail Web mail service from 1GB to 2GB, and it will continue to raise that ceiling in coming weeks and months, on a rolling basis, to unspecified heights, according to a Google executive.

Issues with Google GMail's Basic HTML
Interface

Issues with Google GMail's Basic HTML
Interface 03/17/2005 03:41 AM
TechWhack Mar 15 2005 9:44AM GMT

Not everyone is googly-eyed over the
potential of Google eying your inbox

Not everyone is googly-eyed over the
potential of Google eying your inbox 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
While it's practically heresy to suggest that Google could even be an ounce evil, privacy and consumer advocacy groups are sending up flares over the company's planned Gmail webmail service.

Google 4Q Profits Increase Sevenfold

Google 4Q Profits Increase Sevenfold 02/01/2005 09:50 PM
ABCNEWS.com Feb 2 2005 2:02AM GMT

Google Q4 Profits Increase Sevenfold

Google Q4 Profits Increase Sevenfold 02/01/2005 09:22 PM
Google's Internet-leading search engine fueled a sevenfold increase in fourth-quarter profits to rocket past analyst expectations.

Google 4Q Profits Increase Sevenfold
(AP)

Google 4Q Profits Increase Sevenfold
(AP) 02/01/2005 08:26 PM
AP - Google Inc.'s fourth-quarter profit surged to a sevenfold increase, accelerating the financial gains that have quickly turned the online search engine leader into a Wall Street favorite.

10.3: How to import old Mail inbox to
new Mail inbox

10.3: How to import old Mail inbox to
new Mail inbox 11/07/2003 11:03 AM
I used the system upgrade to Panther for a full backup and a clean Panther installation. Therefore, I had to import my old e-mails back to Apple Mail. Apple Mail puts all imported e-mails in a folder called "Imported" (or som...

Gmail's new promise

Gmail's new promise 04/15/2004 02:16 PM

I can't believe how much flak Google is getting over gmail. Hotmail and Yahoo feature 5 or more obnoxious ads on every page view, plus advertising in each and every mail they send out, but Google creates a better version of web mail and we have state representitives introd ucing laws to ban the service before it even launches.

Has the whole world gone crazy?!

They've gone and updated their policy at gmail, and it boggles my mind that they even have to go to such great lengths to explain how their subtle ads aren't the new red menace.

They should introduce a new promise for gmail users. Every message that gets sent to a gmail account will result in a kitten getting petted one time. They could rival the old fishcam at Netscape, by having a big room with a kitten-petting robot showing everyone how much love the kittens are getting from the PetBot2000. And remember, no humans would be involved in the kitten petting.

Would that make things better finally?

More on Gmail's Virtues and Dangers

More on Gmail's Virtues and Dangers 04/17/2004 09:57 AM

Tim O'Reilly finds much to praise in Google's upcoming Gmail service, and is much less concerned about the privacy issues than I am. We agree totally, however on a crucial issue: preventing data lock-in. He says:

"The big question to me isn't privacy, or control over software APIs, it's who will own the data. What's critical is that gmail makes a commitment to data migration capabilities, so the service isn't a one way door to the future. I want to be able to switch to alternate providers if the competition makes a better offer. The critical enabler is going to be the ability to extract my data and connections so that I can work with them on multiple devices, for example, syncing my laptop or phone with my gmail account rather than having to work only in a tethered fashion. I understand why gmail doesn't offer this feature now, but it's going to be essential in the long term."

Amen.

Gmail's Birthday Presents

Gmail's Birthday Presents 04/01/2005 11:30 AM

in praise of gmail's technology

in praise of gmail's technology 07/09/2004 12:12 AM
as always, the whining overshadowed some truly impressive coding

Gmail's Similarities To Gator

Gmail's Similarities To Gator 04/26/2004 02:13 AM
ClickZ has an article that points out for all the complaints about Google's Gmail offering, one area that people haven't really explored is how it's actually similar to Gator in certain ways. Of course, since so many people hate Gator, this will automatically be seen as a negative - but what people hate about Gator is that it gets installed without the user knowing it, which isn't the case with Gmail. Also, Gator covers up other sites with popups from competitors, while Gmail just place regular text ads off to the side. However, there are some similarities - and you can imagine that companies will get upset when they find out that next to their own email marketing there is an ad for a competitor. How long until a merchant sues? There have been a number of similar cases against Gator (and others) and the results have been mixed depending on the judge. I stand by my position that throwing up competitors ads by itself should be perfectly legal - as long as the user knows what's happening and the software hasn't been put on their machine without their knowledge. Still, not everyone sees it that way - and it's likely that an annoyed retailer will sue. Another option, as suggested by Jeremy Wagstaff, is that companies that advertise by email will move to alternatives like RSS. Of course, once Gmail adds an RSS news aggregator to their Gmail product they'll face the same issue. Maybe, instead of worrying so much about competitors' ads showing up, they should just focus on making sure their product is something people want.

Gmail's terms of service

Gmail's terms of service 04/09/2004 04:00 PM
Privacy advocates are getting all riled up over Gmail "terms of service". I kinda of had to laugh as if...

Blinded by Gmail's Gigabyte?

Blinded by Gmail's Gigabyte? 04/16/2004 09:12 PM
Okay, this is getting too stupid. Even Tim O'Reilly seems to be sucked in by Google's reality distortion field now. I guess they've been taking lessons from Steve Jobs, because Tim usually isn't this easily excited by non-innovation. (Or maybe Tim was an early investor in Google? Anyone know?) Gmail is fascinating to me as a watershed event in the evolution of the internet. In a brilliant Copernican stroke, gmail turns everything on its head, rejecting the personal computer as...

Testing Gmail's Spam filters

Testing Gmail's Spam filters 06/14/2004 11:32 AM
Ever wonder how long it takes to fill 1GB of mail space with spam? Aaron Pratt ( prattboy@gmail.com ) is trying to find out. He has asked people to give his email out to as many newsletters, spammers, any kind of annoying mail that he can recieve. You can see some of his results here (mirror) More…

Gilmore on Gmail's terms-of-service

Gilmore on Gmail's terms-of-service 04/09/2004 04:05 PM
John Gilmore has given me permission ot publish his very sharp analysis of Google's Gmail draft terms-of-service. As it stands, the ToS have some really objectionable elements. Google has a notation to the effect that this is a draft document and they are soliciting feedback on it to gmail-feedback@google.com. If these terms bother you, you could send polite feedback to Google about the parts that you find worrisome.

If they allege a "technical issue", including spam filtering, then they can access, read, preserve, and disclose anything in your mailbox. Since they probably do spam filtering for everybody (both for incoming and outgoing mail), then they have the right to read and disclose the contents of your email at any time.

Many spam-filtering services send copies of alleged spams to some central location. If they get N copies of similar messages, they declare it spam and publish the offending messages on the web. Google's right to send your spam to such services gives them the right to send ANY of your email to ANYONE -- for publication.

Link (Thanks, John!)

Using Up Gmail's Lifetime Supply Of
Space... And Looking For The Delete Key

Using Up Gmail's Lifetime Supply Of
Space... And Looking For The Delete Key 08/17/2004 03:23 PM
TDavid writes "The Gmail team has confirmed that there is currently no feature to deal with mass deletion of mail and they do not indicate when or if they will add this functionality. The current choices are either deal with deleting forever mail 50 threads at a time or using a third party script. Not a problem for those who receive 30 emails a day, but a huge issue for those who receive thousands of emails a day, with the vast majority being spam." Funny. I had been wondering the same thing, as I've been messing around with forwarding spam to my Gmail account over the last month (now pushing about 20% capacity, so a bit slower than the example above). One change, though, is that you can set the email box to show 100 threads at a time, rather than 50, which should speed up the delete process slightly. Still, you have to admit that Gmail is a beta product, and it's quite likely they'll add a "delete all spam" feature at some point. Either that, or add an option (found on many other systems) that will automatically delete mail designated as spam after a specific time period (1 week? 1 month?). I'm not sure it does much good to get super angry about a beta email product that clearly tells you you're running out of room, and then... runs out of room. A related question, though, concerns how good the Gmail spam filter actually is. In my tests, it's pretty bad. It appears to catch about 70% of spam, which is much lower than most anti-spam solutions. Of course, with such a low rate, you would figure that there wouldn't be too many false positives, but that's not true either. It tends to catch plenty of legitimate email and tag it as spam. Another thing they will hopefully fix before the system comes out of beta.

Hotmail, Others Follow Gmail's Storage
Boost

Hotmail, Others Follow Gmail's Storage
Boost 06/24/2004 06:17 AM

Google's Sergey Brin Talks on Gmail's
Future

Google's Sergey Brin Talks on Gmail's
Future 04/24/2004 12:53 PM

Gmail's Terabyte Glitch Heightens
Storage Race

Gmail's Terabyte Glitch Heightens
Storage Race 05/19/2004 02:52 PM
Google confirms that the 1 terabyte of storage space that test users of its free e-mail service noticed this week was a bug in the system, not a new height in free space.

Out of My Inbox

Out of My Inbox 08/05/2004 10:50 AM
Selena Maranjian's inbox is full of insightful comments from readers.

Inbox Cleaner v1.0.3

Inbox Cleaner v1.0.3 01/01/2004 09:52 PM
InboxCleaner is a small utility that connects to your POP mailbox and verifies your e-mail messages. Mail messages that are identified as SPAM are deleted before you download them with your normal mail application. This prevents you from downloading SPAM and clogging up your mailbox. But not only SPAM will be stopped, but also harmful Viruses and Worms will be identified and deleted before you download them. [Shareware $15.00 1.26 MB]

1,600% Returns in Your Inbox

1,600% Returns in Your Inbox 02/17/2004 02:36 PM
David Forrest has a hot stock tip to share -- straight from his email.

Do senders have a right to your inbox?

Do senders have a right to your inbox? 06/07/2004 08:58 AM
ZDNet UK Jun 7 2004 12:48PM GMT

Changing The Inbox

Changing The Inbox 06/03/2004 10:47 AM
Email is widely considered the "killer app" of the internet, but some are wondering if it's getting a bit worn around the edges. While stories about how spam is killing email can be found almost anywhere, some are suggesting that email has many other problems as well. Now, it appears that just about everyone is trying to "reinvent" email - but you have to wonder just how far it should go. While improving the interface can be good, it's always difficult to make major changes to something that people feel so comfortable with. Email does have its limitations, but so many people have already adapted to them, that forcing them to change again (unless it's done very well) may create more problems than it solves.

Downloading your hotmail inbox

Downloading your hotmail inbox 12/02/2003 12:40 AM

Adrian just pointed me to a fantastic tool: Gotmail, a utility to download mail from Hotmail accounts. It's a command line utitlity, written in Perl and making use of the curl binary, which can connect to Hotmail over the web and grab any new emails, saving them locally as an mbox file and deleting them from the Hotmail server.

Naturally, anything like this is completely dependent on Hotmail's design staying the same and maintaining the tool is a constant arms race. At the moment, Hotmail is ahead - a recent upgrade to the Hotmail design (some time in the last few days) has rendered Gotmail useless. A call for help on the Gotmail mailing list from the lead developer makes particularly interesting reading. He's looking for developers and users who can help with the debugging effort required to get the tool working again, but the last paragraph of the email really caught my attention:

Developers: If you have some Python proficiency, and would like to assist in developing the next generation of Gotmail (development name: gotfemail), email me off-list. I have some pretty ambitious plans for this project, and depending on how much is actually implemented, Hotmail breakages should be either self-fixing or very simple to fix. I've done some work on making a generic library for this sort of job (so the fetchyahoo people and others might be interested), and some preliminary work on embedding the Javascript interpreter from the Mozilla project.

A self-fixing screen scraper sounds like one heck of an interesting project, and I can't complain about the choice of development language either ;) If you're a Python hacker looking for a new project this could be well worth checking out.

SpamSieve 2.2 gives you back your inbox

SpamSieve 2.2 gives you back your inbox 08/27/2004 01:42 PM
SpamSieve 2.2 brings powerful Bayesian spam filtering to popular e-mail clients. It learns what your spam looks like, so it can block nearly all of it. It looks at your address book and learns what your good messages look like, so it won't confuse them with spam. Other spam filters get worse over time as spammers adapt to their rules; SpamSieve actually gets better over time as you train it with more messages. SpamSieve works with any number of mail accounts, of whatever types are supported by your e-mail software (e.g. POP, IMAP, Hotmail, AOL). It was named "Software of the Year" by Macworld magazine in February 2004.

See what's new in version 2.2...

Cannot Use Rocker Button in Inbox

Cannot Use Rocker Button in Inbox 09/01/2004 05:51 AM

RE: [inbox] W2K source "leaked"?

RE: [inbox] W2K source "leaked"? 02/16/2004 04:00 PM
Curt Purdy (Feb 13 2004)

Candidate Ads, Coming Soon To An Inbox
Near You

Candidate Ads, Coming Soon To An Inbox
Near You 02/17/2004 12:09 AM

Inbox Folders Located on the CAP

Inbox Folders Located on the CAP 09/09/2004 08:22 PM

Inbox Manager not creating Inboxes

Inbox Manager not creating Inboxes 08/17/2004 09:19 PM

PHPBB, Sessions and Inbox Buddy

PHPBB, Sessions and Inbox Buddy 02/12/2003 12:31 PM
PHPBB, Sessions and Inbox Buddy We use PHPBB, an excellent web discussion tool, to run the support forum for Inbox Buddy. And lately it has been crashing with a "Error Creating New Session" issue. And while I have learned to laboriously go into MySQL and purge the session table, they now have an officially sanctioned fix for it. Apparently the issue is that a lot of bots are hammering sites trying to retrieve data and thus generating a lot more sessions than necessary. Since sessions are stored in a heap table, the maximum rows are quickly reached and the sessions are maxed out giving the error. The fix automatically deletes from the heap table allowing the error to (theoretically) never occur. [_Go_] This brings me to a larger session related php question -- are sessions good or bad in general? It seems like lately whenever I encounter sessions in a large php application, they always cause some kind of issue. Is this bad programming or simply the nature of sessions? Clearly linking directly to specific things is more important than ever and sessions seem to interfere with that (at a minimum they mangle the url's length). Note: I haven't done much programming with sessions in PHP at all so I could be way off base here. Perhaps they are the best thing since sliced bread and squirtable mustard and I just don't know it.

That gibberish in your inbox may be good
news

That gibberish in your inbox may be good
news 01/25/2004 04:14 PM
CNET Jan 25 2004 7:34PM GMT

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Reader Instead of Your Inbox

Get the Daily Newsletter in your RSS
Reader Instead of Your Inbox 07/21/2004 04:22 PM

Syncing Outlook Inbox Subfolders

Syncing Outlook Inbox Subfolders 05/25/2004 02:58 PM

A workaround for a read-only Mail inbox

A workaround for a read-only Mail inbox 01/22/2004 02:36 AM
I recently received a new Mac on my desk, and moved my data from old to new via Carbon Copy Cloner, including the entire Users folder. Upon setting up Mail to check my IMAP email account, I found that the Inbox was "read-only...

Inbox Detritus Becomes Art in Spam Show

Inbox Detritus Becomes Art in Spam Show 01/27/2004 05:26 AM
San Jose Mercury News Jan 27 2004 10:03AM GMT

Pocket Inbox supports LDAP

Pocket Inbox supports LDAP 04/07/2005 01:25 PM

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