
Google loves a good April Fool's joke, and you may remember that last week Google promised a new service called
Gmail Paper. The concept was that you could request a hard copy of all of your emails, and Google would ship a box with printouts to your door.
Sounds silly, right? But the idea of being able to back up your email is anything but. Sure, you can configure Outlook or Thunderbird to work with Gmail to collect your messages. But wouldn't it be great if there was just a button you could press to export some of your 2.8GB of email from Google's server?
Well, it looks like that might be more than just a pipe dream. Google has a new
Gmail suggestion site up, where you can select from a list of features you'd like to see implemented. You can only select 5 of the 45 options, but here are a few of our favorites:
- Export messages to a CD for storage
- Filter outgoing messages
- Change the label system to folders
- Hierarchy of label systems (i.e. sub-labels)
- Sort messages by size, date, sender
- Turn conversation view off
- Ability to add or remove messages from conversations
- Integration with Google Calendard/Groups/Reader/Picasa/News/Blogger/Orkut/Google Talk
- To-do list
- Import messages from other email accounts
- Delete attachments from messages
- Add notes to messages
- Multi-person chat
- Have Gmail do my laundry
We're pretty sure that last one is in there just to make an even 45. Still, it gets our vote.
[via
ZDNet]