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Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Advanced IMAP Controls

From the team that brought you Mail Goggles, here comes…Advanced IMAP Controls, a Labs feature that lets you fine-tune your Gmail IMAP experience. You can choose which labels to sync in IMAP — useful if you find your mail client choking on a big [Gmail]/All Mail folder.

Thank you, Google. A thousand times. I’ve settled on funneling all personal e-mail through MobileMe and my Ars address for work, but this is finally the control Gmail users need over IMAP folders that can bring some e-mail clients to their knees.

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Zoho Blogs » Conversational View in GMail Vs Threaded View in Zoho Mail

Zoho developed an interesting solution to the ambiguity produced by Gmail’s flat threaded view. Not only can you not see who each message comes from in Gmail, but you can’t see exactly who is replying to who in the overall discourse. Zoho Mail’s unique threaded view acts more like a modern forum and solves both of these problems. This view certainly takes up more space, but if you need a more granular view of an e-mail conversation, Zoho arguably has a much better solution.

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Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Calendar and Docs gadgets

View your weekly agenda and recent documents right next to your e-mail. Gmail is looking more and more like “an Office for the rest of us” with these recent rapid-fire releases.

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Remember The Milk - New: RTM + Gmail gadget goodness

Today we’re launching a new Gmail gadget that can be added to the left nav of any Gmail account, giving convenient access to your tasks alongside your email.

RTM has always offered a very clever Remember The Milk for Gmail Firefox extension, but this excluded users of other browsers, such as myself. This new gadget, enabled by Gmail’s new inherent support for displaying gadgets alongside e-mail, works in any browser. The gadget isn’t quite as functional as its bigger brother (for example: the Firefox add-on allows you to link tasks to e-mail and contacts, much as you would in Office or Apple’s tools in Leopard), but it’s great if you just need to view the week’s tasks, create new tasks, and edit existing tasks. You can even use the same plain English syntax that RTM supports, such as “Finish project 8pm, tag with work.”

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I just got done with a video chat in Gmail, thanks to the new plug-in that Google released today. The feature wasn’t available in my account when I covered this news at Ars earlier, but it appeared for me a few minutes ago. Worked great in Safari 3. Way too cool.

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Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Send & Archive

Smart new feature that does just what it says. Next to Gmail’s Send button is now a “Send & Archive” button. After you finish penning a reply, you can send the message and archive the original with one stroke.

Smart idea, especially since the plain Send button is still right next to it. Enable it via Gmail’s Labs preference area.

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Official Gmail Blog: Send mail from another address without "on behalf of"

This is excellent news. For quite some time, Gmail has allowed users to send email from alternative addresses. This usually works great, but many recipients will see “from: user@gmail, sent on behalf of your@customaddress.com.” This happens especially with some versions of Outlook, and considering that it is the most popular email client, this is a problem.

Now, Gmail allows users to add custom outgoing server information for each non-Gmail account they have set up. Your messages technically get sent through each address’ official servers, so the unfortunate “on behalf of” bit ceases to be part of the equation. Problem solved.

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