That’s great!

I just wish they would make the word “To” an active link to your contacts where you could use check-boxes to send the email to 50 out of the 500 contacts you have.

This disconnection from the contacts is especially frustrating when I want to froward something. 

I can never remember email addresses and guessing just doesn’t work well for me.

The only workaround so far is to open another browser, Open Gmail, open my contacts, and look to see what the options are. Then go back & forth between the two browsers until the job is done.
(Arrrrrggg)

The other feature on my wish list is to be able to organize my emails and contacts into folders.

I can give contacts tags… but it doesn’t seem to be very useful.

- Posted on Friday, November 10, 2006 at 14:58 [ Permalink to this comment ]

The tagging ("labelling") of contacts is useful. Say you have a gang of friends that you may standardly send forwards to. Say they are everyone to do with your work, or everyone in your family etc. Then you just get them in a group in the contacts area. Then you can just type in the group name in the “To:” field and bingo - all of their addresses appear in the box.

- Posted on Friday, November 10, 2006 at 15:14 [ Permalink to this comment ]

I’d rather like to have the option to activate/deactivate filters.
I my case I am subscribed to multiple mailing lists too, and some of them are only of interest to me if I ask a question and wait for an answer.
When I finally get the answer, I mmostly don’t want to receive further messages (sometimes I unsubscribe from the list, then), until I have another question to the list.
IMHO it would be great to set up a filter that deletes/archives all messages sent to a mailing list. Thus, I subscribe once to the list. Then, if I want to receice messages I disable the archive/delete filter. Once I am satisfied I don’t subscribe from the list, but enable the delete/archive filter until I have another question…

- Posted on Saturday, November 11, 2006 at 2:31 [ Permalink to this comment ]

Nice!  But I wish there was a way to make this a true “murder” key—send the messages to the trash, not the Archive.

I know, I know, we have gargantuan amounts of storage space with Gmail, but I still don’t want dead horses littering my search results when I need to find something in the Archives.  There’s lots of stuff that come on these email lists that I know I’ll never want to see again.  Especially the umpteenth “Me too” post.  Those I truly want to murder.

- Posted on Monday, November 13, 2006 at 9:30 [ Permalink to this comment ]

It seems this pretty good feature is only available in english Gmail for now. Does it work if from my french interface, I tag the message with “mute” ?

- Posted on Monday, November 13, 2006 at 11:42 [ Permalink to this comment ]

Just wanted to give a little credit to Omar Shahine for evangelizing this feature for Outlook users for quite some time; it has become an important feature in my company’s product as well: Gmail Mute for Outlook history

- Posted on Monday, November 13, 2006 at 11:50 [ Permalink to this comment ]

Romain,

It’s possible we haven’t rolled this out yet to all areas.  As someone who lived in Europe (and indeed, loves France!), I do apologize that we don’t always get all features out to our users around the world at the same time.  Trust me, we’re working on closing the gap .

Thanks for your patience and for using Gmail.

- Posted on Monday, November 13, 2006 at 11:56 [ Permalink to this comment ]

gmail,google talk for mac . Please !!!!!!

I dont want anymore features

- Posted on Saturday, November 18, 2006 at 21:13 [ Permalink to this comment ]

yu

- Posted on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 at 1:19 [ Permalink to this comment ]

Don’t want to sound stupid but what does the Lables feature on GMail actually do?

- Posted on Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 11:49 [ Permalink to this comment ]

SSB, it’s similar to folders.

For instance, you could attach a label “Taxes” to e-mail conversations you have with your accountant, so that you could easily find those mails later by just clicking on “Taxes.”

Some people use labels for social groups ("Friends"), or for reminders ("To-dos").

- Posted on Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 11:54 [ Permalink to this comment ]

I am now saved from unimportant mailing list posts that go on incessantly!  Thank you!

One would think a more generalizable solution would be the ability to apply a filter to a label, so that you could mimic this mute functionality with a ‘mute’ label and corresponding filter action on the label.  Oh well, this works just as well.

- Posted on Thursday, May 3, 2007 at 6:14 [ Permalink to this comment ]

For mailing Gmail usage is too low, but Gmail generally now in used because of Bloggers and Google webmaster tools.
Still i though yahoo is on the top of the market.

- Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at 21:48 [ Permalink to this comment ]

Gmail’s “Mute” Feature
I’ve always personally been fairly ambivalent about Gmail (and web-based email in general), but a new “minor” feature they rolled out (not even warranting mention in their official “What’s new” post) is absolutely br...

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