Why is it that gmail seems to be incapable of blocking the emails that start "Hello! I am bored tonight. I am nice girl that would like to chat with you". It's not like its a difficult phrase to detect and not something that is likely to be used in everyday emails. I would have thought that marking 99 (or more) of these as spam would have clued the antispam engine to make sure that these emails don't get delivered to my mailbox.
Update I checked my spam folder this morning and I actually had about 4 or 5 of these emails in the spam folder (amongst the other 350 spams) so maybe it is working (now). Deleting the 20,000 spams that were in the spam folder previously made it hard to work out which were new spams. It would also be nice if marking an email as spam would tag it slightly different so you could tell which was taggedspam and which was detectedspam.
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Anyone having problems accessing their gmail recently? I can log in, but clicking on an email doesn't do anything (apart from make it unread) OR I get a warning that a script on this page is taking too long to run,do I wish to continue (when using firefox). The problem occurs on two machines that I've used and also occurs in internet explorer (so it is not related to any firefox extensions). Also occurs on two different networks (home and office lan). Just wondered if anyone else was having the same issue - I know it's not site wide as someone else from the office can access their email account ok.
In the meantime, If you've sent me an email - you'll have to wait for a reply.....
Update I worked out what the problem was - yesterday I followed some instructions on enabling Miranda and gmail so that I could talk to msn users on the blackberry. However I think this was bogging down my contact information in gmail as it tried to get the status updates of my buddies in msn. I actually found that this integration didn't work very well anyway, so I wanted to remove this setup and promptly found my gmail is back to normal.
With the aid of add calendar feed greasemonkey script and following the instructions it is possible to get a nice listing of a calendar within gmail.
I've been doing a lot of research,reading and studying in improving my productivity and time management recently. This morning I came across the Getting Things Done with Lotus Notes document which really strikes me as an oxymoron. Notes seems to be the most counterproductive piece of software out there and it is not helping me in my productivity. So maybe I'll get this document to see how it should be done.
One of the things that I picked up from one of the books was to use 1 calendar for everything which is ok if you are single and don't have a spouse that also needs to see your calendar but they don't work for your company and have access. As we both have google accounts, I thought that syncing the Notes calendar to google calendar would work as then my wife can see the google calendar and we could both use the calendars to ensure we didn't doublebook events. I did find the Companion Link for Google Calendar software but it doesn't work very well.
The synchronization takes forever (when it does work) and I've ended up with duplicate entries in google but with different times - 1 hour apart I could understand due to some funky dst issues, but these are a couple of hours apart. Recurring appointments are not supported (although recurring appointments that have been canceled appeared in gmail but active recurring appointments didn't)
Still, at least I now have a base copy in Google calendar which I will hopefully be able to keep up to date.
I've noticed in the past that gmail isn't secure by default - the initial signon is secured with ssl but then you go back to standard web pages, and therefore open for sniffing. This has prevented me from checking my mail in certain places as I've no idea what else is on the network. However, if you go to https://gmail.google.com to sign on, then your ensuing gmail traffic is still encrypted.
You can now chat from within the gmail interface (so no need to open another program) - or at least you can if your contacts also have had this feature enabled in their gmail account. My first gmail account has had this option enabled but my main google account that I use on a day to day basis (as it contains all helsby.net emails) does not have it activated yet. The strange thing is that you can initiate a chat invite from a working account (and I was hoping that would activate my secondary account for chatting) but the secondary account does not receive the invite in the mail box - I'm guessing it probably goes to the chat client - if it has been downloaded.
It will be interesting to see how this progresses. At the moment I'm guessing it is text only IM similar to the web interfaces to MSN and ICQ.
In related news I've been setting up a Live Communication Server for a client and the Communicator program looks pretty good. The annoying thing is that I can't see any documentation on how to get hold of the non-trial version of the client - it apparently is free with licences for the server so you would expect to get the media for the client with the server - but nooooooo.......
Just logged into my gmail account and they now scan for virus's...This is one more reason to move the rest of my helsby.net emails to gmail. The only issue I have with gmailing my domain is that when I read the mail in thunderbird on the home pc, it doesn't mark the mail in gmail as read (which I wouldn't expect it to) but that means that gmail thinks I have loads of unread messages.
Update I've now made the switch and all mail that is not addressed directly to Kristen and I now goes via google - that'll give it some spam to think about :-)
I've taken the step of forwarding all incoming mail for my userid at my main domain to my google account for 3 reasons. 1 is to reduce the amount of spam that I get in my inbox and the second is to give me a decent web interface for my mail as the web interface with 1and1 is awful to use and really slow and thirdly to have a searchable archive of mail available from any computer.
The main computer at home will download the email via pop3 as usual but I'll also have email on the move. I've not forwarded all email via google as it blocks certain attachments (.exe files for example) which I occasionally need but I might do this at a later date with an exception email that goes direct to pop3 instead of via gmail.
A nice bookmarklet, Gmail this allows you to select some text, press the icon on your links bar and it sends the selected text plus url via your gmail account. Works great in firefox (but not in ie) allthough I had to bookmark the script first rather than just drag it to my links folder for some obscure reason. Thanks Mike
