Filed under: E-mail, Productivity, Web services, Google
Gmail Mute: Ignore "the thread that won't die"
Among the new Gmail features we told you about last week was another that we managed to miss out on last week, but which could surpass them all in glory: Mute! "If you're subscribed to a mailing list," says Google's help page, "you've no doubt been subjected to the 'thread that just won't die!' If you're part of a long message conversation that isn't relevant, you can 'mute' the conversation to keep all future additions out of your inbox." To mute a conversation, just strike the m key. Gmail is also smart enough to put the message in your Inbox if it's addressed directly to you, but archive the rest. You can also search for muted conversations with the keyword is:muted. Little features like this are why, despite inroads made by Microsoft and Yahoo!, Gmail is still king. You can find more information about the new Mute feature in the Gmail Help Center.[Via BLADAM via Lifehacker]
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Flipsy said 1:36AM on 11-14-2006
Inroads? Those services dominate Gmail.
Some of the features of Gmail are nice, some are great, and I use it as my main email. But I wish they'd make it reliable before they made it feature-packed, because I have no end of problems getting things sent, and have constant delays receiving mail.
Yes it's good. And yes, it's free. But it's the low man yet on the totem pole, at least for now.
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thee pyro wolf said 4:12PM on 11-24-2006
I have never really had a problem with gmail in fact, some of it's features which are lacking in Hotmail, and yahoo are what make it so reliable, the conversation views and the fact that you can use the pop and smpt functions are also helpful, and yahoo and hotmail (especially the new live interface) require specific screen sizes, take forever to load, and for all the bells and whistles, don't work overly well.
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