I would like an easier way to access my accounts setup so i can do a "check mail now" kind of thing without having to go to Settings > Accounts > Check mail.
Secondly, I'd like the search function to access the Spam and Trash folders easily.
Jason
· 2 years ago
Persistent Search Folders. By label, sender, etc. Reader integration (although talk about a time waster). Contact management that isn't awful.
Dave R
· 2 years ago
I definitely agree. I would love to see all of these features, but I have a few to add.
1. Durable uploads. I find myself sending the same file over and over again to different people (e.g. resumes). Every time i send it, I have to upload it again and it just takes up that much more space with all the duplication. I should be able to use files I've already uploaded without having to forward an old e-mail, which is a very analog way of going about it.
2. Better labeling and filtering. I like to have e-mails skip the inbox and sent directly to folders or labels so I can better manage different e-mail topics. Gmail's multiple label system is great, but filters don't always understand that I want an e-mail to be marked with two different labels and the corresponding labels on the sidebar to indicate a new message.
3. More flexible contact searching. It's impossible to search non-initially meaning if I have a friend John who's e-mail is "j-smith@example.com" and his name isn't filled out, he won't come up when I type "smith" into the address box. I wish it would.
That's an incomplete list, but i can never remember it all...
Adam Ostrow
· 2 years ago
Great ideas. Especially would like the durable uploads feature.
smanofsteel76
· 2 years ago
Here's what I want:
1.)Themes or color options. I am sick of white. 2.)Ability to save photos to Picasa with one click. 3.)Folders in addition to labels so I can organize my labels.
I am sure there's something I am forgetting but those are most important!
Adam Ostrow
· 2 years ago
Hmm not sure I follow on 8&9 ... how exactly do you make it so you can view more messages?
Pete
· 2 years ago
Yup, there's already a way to view up to 100 messages/page - go to "settings". Even more would be nice for folks like me, but perhaps this is limited to prevent slow load times.
James
· 2 years ago
Filters that actually work!!!! I have filters that supposedly apply labels to emails that haven't worked in a year.
neen
· 2 years ago
Actually, you CAN add other accounts.
Click settings, then the "Accounts" tab. Click "add another email address", fill in your info, and submit. Then click "add another mail account" and fill in the info there too.
Julio Biason
· 2 years ago
2 - You can archive your emails using the POP feature. Enable POP, use an email client (Thunderbird, Eudora, Evolution) and download all your messages. Got new messages? No problem, just check it again and you'll download the new ones.
4 - That's a browser limitation, not a Gmail limitation. The field used to point to a field accepts only one file at time. A solution would be use a Flash applet or Flash (or wait for a new HTTP standard and all browsers to catch up).
7 - That looks more like a Calendar feature than a Gmail feature, 'cause you can have some to-dos that actually have a deadline. But it would be nice if appointments for the day and deadlines could be shown in the "web clips" thing.
What noob post. obviously you haven't check all the script that can do most of your wish list!
Bryan (d3bruts1d)
· 2 years ago
1) I actually find threaded view works much better than a non-threaded. With threaded view, I can easily see who sent the message in a single line. No need to look through several individual messages.
2) I think we'll be seeing this via Google Gears soon. Though as it has already been stated, set up Outlook, Opera, Thunderbird, etc to connect to your GMail account via POP and you've got an instant backup.
3) This feature is technically already there. You can set GMail up to check other POP accounts, this means other GMail accounts as well. I check 2 GMail accounts, a Comcast account, and 2 others all from my "main" GMail account. Only works with 5 accounts right now.
4) Never had a problem with this. As others have said, it's not GMail, it's HTML... I'd rather have this than Flash/Java.
5) Meh... I guess it could be useful.
6) Personally, I'd rather have the ability to remove an attachment from a message rather than having to worry about it later.
7) This belongs more in GCal. Thought tighter integration of GMail & GCal would be nice.
8, 9, & 10) Agreed.
Noah
· 2 years ago
3. Multiple Account Options
-- You do realize that feature is already available? Try clicking on Settings > Accounts > Get mail from other accounts.
Add your other Gmail account, follow the instructions, then voila... you can get email from ALL your other Gmail accounts from your primary account.
AND, on top of that... you can SEND email from the other accounts FROM your main account.
You DO use the service, right??
Damir
· 2 years ago
Actually the only two things I would really like are folders (inbox to have subfolders, like in outlook) and import/export emails (or just save locally would do just fine)
Thomas
· 2 years ago
Ashley is right, handling multiple (G)mail accounts works quite fine with the forwarding features, which leaves us with another (my #1) missing feature: mutliple signatures:(
dep
· 2 years ago
Uhhm... I dunno about these requests... Here's my top 5.
1) Better contact management... Make it easier to update contact details.
2) Drag and drop labeling... Take the look and feel of Docs and Spreadsheets for labeling. Makes more sense.
3) RSS/Google Reader integration.
4) Built-in Conversation Preview and Macros.
5) Attach a Google Docs and Spreadsheets document to an email (this seems like an obvious missing feature).
Andy Davies
· 2 years ago
Way of showing emails that aren't labelled e.g. -is:labelled or -has:label
SyncML support so I can sync the contacts with my mobile phone
Better contact management in general. I don't want everyone who emails me automatically added to my contacts.
Persistent searches, with easy ways of searching for emails received today, this week, this month etc.
alx
· 2 years ago
I wish I could turn off the feature that automatically adds everyone who emails you to your contact list. I get about 80 new emails per day with work and it is virtually impossible to locate my friends on my list. Making a friends list is a pain and when you do put your friends in the list, they no longer come up automatically wen you type the first few letters of their name any more. Grrrr. I only want to add the people to my contact list that I choose.
alx
Pete
· 2 years ago
1) Ability to digitally sign emails 2) Ability to encrypt emails 3) Better contact management 4) More advanced filtering options (regex?) 5) Google reader integration
While not really a 'gmail' addition, a thunderbird extension that allowed almost total gmail integration would be nice.
Joe
· 2 years ago
This list missed the most important feature we need from Gmail ... IMAP!!!
Nowadays it is common for people to have multiple computers. All I want is to be able to configure Outlook on both my laptop and desktop to read my multiple Gmail accounts without having to worry about synchronization. Even with POP3 configured to leave messages on the server when downloaded, I can only have Outlook check my email on one comp so I don't split up my messages between the 2 systems. Is it really that difficult to set up IMAP so people can have their desktops, laptops, and smart phones configured to check the same account?
JJ
· 2 years ago
1) Drag and Drop 2) Ability to import old mail so it's searchable and in Gmail (e.g. old UNIX mail, even Outloook .psts) 3)*Tighter* integration with Picasa!
pascal
· 2 years ago
When an e-mail is open, or 1+ e-mails is selected, the list of tags on the left hand side should have little + or - buttons, to allow one to quickly tag or untag the selected or open e-mail!
Pascal
bcbeatty
· 2 years ago
1.Better Contact Management 2. Choose to add a recipient to my contacts. Similar to Add to Outlook 3. When viewing spam, have a label for "One of your Contacts" 4. Use Contact Groups in filters 5. Integrate some of the better add-ons like Label Colors and Label Folders 6. Larger List Sizes, customizable 7. Inline reading, another add-on
ZoomStop
· 2 years ago
Call me vain, but I really need skins and am tired of using Firefox plug in hacks to get it!
Sahasranaman
· 2 years ago
I'd like the interface to allow us to open multiple e-mails at the same time like evolution does.. creating a message from multiple recieved emails should be easier.
Seema
· 2 years ago
I want the ability to label an e-mail in the "Compose Mail" window. (Just take the "More Actions" drop down window and plop it next to the "Discard" button.)
I like keeping track of which e-mails I'm awaiting a response to. I currently do this by composing the e-mail, sending it, going to "sent mail", clicking on the e-mail I just sent, and then labeling it "Awaiting Response." I could save TONS of time/clicks if they'd just let me label it in the Compose Mail menu!
Matt
· 2 years ago
PUSH IMAP, GODDAMNIT!
Or at the very least, fix their POP service so that messages in the webmail interface are actually archived if access through POP (there is an option for this, but I don't know anyone who it works for), don't send copies of emails that a user sends to the POP forward, things like that. It is embarrassingly broken.
Harriet Anders
· 2 years ago
similar to 4. and what others commented already. I'd like online storage of attachments so I could segments of a document, or photo's, to send to different addresses, in stead of get them each one by one from my hd - wasn't there some feature that converted (part of) the storage as an online drive? I'd like a partition-like storage indeed drop-and-drag accessible bothe from within Gmail itself as from the terminal I'm working on on a given moment - depending on the size (like 10G+) I'd be even willing to pay for it.
Adam Stanhope
· 2 years ago
Great list!
My additions:
* "Always SPAM" - You'd think by now the spam filter would realize that 100% of the Russian and Hebrew emails I receive are spam. Wouldn't it be nice if you could select a message, click "Always SPAM" and have Gmail list the handful of parameters associated with the given message that you would like to use for the "always" definition.
* "Pop-up" - I'd like an optional mouse-over "pop-up" in the list view of appx. the first paragraph of any given mail message that you hesitate over with the mouse - a la "pop-ups" in Wikipedia or cooliris.
* Enhanced Contacts Tools #1 Deduping - Various smart deduping of contacts... My friend Gurn Blanston is in my contacts 6 different times for 6 different email addresses, even though I only mail him at one at the moment. Present me with the six based on his name and allow me to nix the rest.
* Enhanced Contacts Tools #2 Thinning the Herd - Allow me to see all my contacts sorted by the date they became a contact or by the date they last sent me and email or the date that I last sent them an email or how many emails we've sent to one another cumulatively. These views would make it easy to trim the massive contact list into something more manageable.
* Mailing list management - I know this is a tough one. GMAIL has done a fantastic job keeping itself from being used for massive amounts of spamming. Unfortunately, my friend who is in charge of the town's childrens' sports teams cannot easily do a bulk mailing to all of the parents involved. Sending a message out to 400 parents is tedious or impossible with Gmail. One must seek out a third party application in order to do this.
That's my list for the moment. Great discussion, everyone!
I LOVE MY GMAIL! Woooo!!!! Hehe!
Damir
· 2 years ago
Yeah I forgot... I would like to have two other things... the ability to save a html signature (now only text) and possibly to mark an email with different simbols, not only stars!
Adam Ostrow
· 2 years ago
save signatures would be a good one
angie
· 2 years ago
LOL, you're gonna got that, Damir!
mozu517
· 2 years ago
I would like to use Google's Mail, Calendar, & Maps together. E.g., if I have someone's name & address in GMail, I'd like to be able to go to the Calendar, click on a day, start typing "lunch with Ada..." & have her address/phone/map pop up, and then "...at Gulliver's" & have the restaurant's address/phone/map pop up. I could click on any of those options & have them displayed in my Calendar. Maybe this feature is already in there & I just don't know how to use it.
Russ
· 2 years ago
re: Wish #9
that's what labels are for! you label something Important, then when you click on the label Important, all the Important emails come up.
seriously, don't fight the labels.
Alcoholico
· 2 years ago
Yahoo already does most (if not all) of these things, why use gmail anyway????.
The_PHP_Jedi
· 2 years ago
Regarding #5 (View Message from Inbox), you can press shift and click on an email, and it will open in a new window (that with Tab Mix Plus (FF Extension) makes it open a new tab :) )
The others are very true. Also I would like to see (and I have already sent this suggestion to the GMail Team) is the ability to 'move' accounts. So for example I have mypersonalemail@gmail.com and I move to myname@mycompany.com (using Google Apps of course) or just another regular GMail account, I could move all my contacts and emails to the new account. I've recently switched to my company's Google Apps GMail account and what I'm doing is forwarding my emails to my personal GMail account and set up a 'send as' for my company's email in my personal account.
Just waiting for change. But I'm really excited!
ayman
· 2 years ago
I would like to see more features in the contact list, such as synchronize with Outlook (or any other address book of your choice), integration with YouTube, field mapping when importing into GMail. Also I would like to see the "View recent conversations" link under the "Reply" menu.
Otherwise, I'm a loyal GMail fan!
Ashwin Dixit
· 2 years ago
I really enjoy using GMail. I'd like a way to delete all mail marked "Spam", without having to look at it.
Every day, I switch to the "Spam" folder, to delete all mail in it manually. During this process, I usually see a Spam subject header that says, "Do you want a bigger penis?" Now, coming across this message once in a while is Ok.
But I'm exposed to it for a few seconds every day, which is a significant portion of my life. I am afraid that daily repeated exposure to this message will harm me psychologically. In fact, I might already have developed feelings of inadequacy, due to this subliminal toxin, and not even know it.
Mark Cross
· 2 years ago
IMAP is my want :-)
HenrietteK
· 2 years ago
A choice to disable the "add all email addresses to you contact list" feature
skinner
· 2 years ago
Email tags (as a new field like subject, receiver...)
Sometimes a fellow tells you: "This night I'll send you the last version of the customers list!" and, of course, when you look at your mailbox at night you will see an email like this:
Subject: Here it is! Body: Attachment: adressesadded.doc
When, two months later, you want to find this file, it's almost impossible. You'll search "customer", "list", "contacts", etc. with no result.
Another example would be:
Subject: Look at this! Body: It's great! [link to youtube]
I often receive these kind of poorly-filled emails, and to prevent that problem I must do a reply to myself adding "customer list doc contacts addresses", or "video dancing bears" to the body. I would like to be able to add some tags to the email for further searching instead of have to replying it.
Jim Jarmo
· 2 years ago
Great list. I'd also like to see:
1. Facility for "Web 2.0"-style tagging of messages/threads with optional sidebar tag cloud.
2. Advanced, highly customisable, menu-driven message search and selection options that would allow me, for example, to search for (and automatically select) all messages that meet **any combination** of a wide range of criteria, including:
- messages with specific labels/tags (or, indeed, unlabelled)
- messages containing (or not containing) specific keywords
- messages sent/received within a specified date range
- messages sent (or not sent) to/from specific people/organisations
3. Integration with Google Reader (as other comments have mentioned).
Jeff
· 2 years ago
they should implement push-Gmail to any mobile device or desktop email client
Chris
· 2 years ago
I POP all of my Gmail and I find it quite annoying that I can only download 200-300 messages during one POP session. I subscribe to many newsletters and newsgroups and get upwards of 500-1000 emails daily on certain accounts. It's quite annoying having to hit the send/receive button 5 times to pull all of my messages.
Also, the POP downloading seems to be rather slow. Again, when downloading 200 messages at a time, I'd really like to be able to download them much faster. Normal messages without attachments take me roughly 3 minutes to download.
Adam Stanhope
· 2 years ago
Jeff:
Google has created Gmail apps for some mobile phones.
I am running the GMail application written for Blackberry and it is quite wonderful on my Blackberry 8100/Pearl.
Really, really good stuff.
Joshua Feinberg
· 2 years ago
I'd be happy if Gmail just improved its uptime. It goes down a lot, usually at the worst possible times.
skinner
· 2 years ago
Progress bar when uploading a file. It's annoying not knowing what is happening. It would be good also that Gmail tells you messages like "The file is too large" BEFORE trying to upload it.
Erno Mijland
· 2 years ago
Gmail has - with some creativity - the possibility to make a todo-list. Check the link under my name.
theawristocrat
· 2 years ago
Coloured labels is now available on gmail. :)
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· 1 year ago
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kader
· 1 year ago
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· 1 year ago
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derya ajans
· 1 year ago
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White Eagle
· 1 year ago
4) Never had a problem with this. As others have said, it's not GMail, it's HTML... I'd rather have this than Flash/Java.
You should check Flickr's uploader, nifty, simple. No need to create a full screen view like flickr, but multiple uploads make sense.
dantel
· 1 year ago
great article thanks
SAm
· 1 year ago
Allow "pick a file from google docs" option please when attaching a file
Shaiya
· 1 year ago
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Pets lover
· 1 year ago
Yes u r right the facility to turn on/off the thread view shud be there some times i wanted to delete some of the unwanted mails in the thread which we cant do now in Gmail
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Secondly, I'd like the search function to access the Spam and Trash folders easily.
1. Durable uploads. I find myself sending the same file over and over again to different people (e.g. resumes). Every time i send it, I have to upload it again and it just takes up that much more space with all the duplication. I should be able to use files I've already uploaded without having to forward an old e-mail, which is a very analog way of going about it.
2. Better labeling and filtering. I like to have e-mails skip the inbox and sent directly to folders or labels so I can better manage different e-mail topics. Gmail's multiple label system is great, but filters don't always understand that I want an e-mail to be marked with two different labels and the corresponding labels on the sidebar to indicate a new message.
3. More flexible contact searching. It's impossible to search non-initially meaning if I have a friend John who's e-mail is "j-smith@example.com" and his name isn't filled out, he won't come up when I type "smith" into the address box. I wish it would.
That's an incomplete list, but i can never remember it all...
1.)Themes or color options. I am sick of white.
2.)Ability to save photos to Picasa with one click.
3.)Folders in addition to labels so I can organize my labels.
I am sure there's something I am forgetting but those are most important!
Click settings, then the "Accounts" tab. Click "add another email address", fill in your info, and submit. Then click "add another mail account" and fill in the info there too.
4 - That's a browser limitation, not a Gmail limitation. The field used to point to a field accepts only one file at time. A solution would be use a Flash applet or Flash (or wait for a new HTTP standard and all browsers to catch up).
7 - That looks more like a Calendar feature than a Gmail feature, 'cause you can have some to-dos that actually have a deadline. But it would be nice if appointments for the day and deadlines could be shown in the "web clips" thing.
2) I think we'll be seeing this via Google Gears soon. Though as it has already been stated, set up Outlook, Opera, Thunderbird, etc to connect to your GMail account via POP and you've got an instant backup.
3) This feature is technically already there. You can set GMail up to check other POP accounts, this means other GMail accounts as well. I check 2 GMail accounts, a Comcast account, and 2 others all from my "main" GMail account. Only works with 5 accounts right now.
4) Never had a problem with this. As others have said, it's not GMail, it's HTML... I'd rather have this than Flash/Java.
5) Meh... I guess it could be useful.
6) Personally, I'd rather have the ability to remove an attachment from a message rather than having to worry about it later.
7) This belongs more in GCal. Thought tighter integration of GMail & GCal would be nice.
8, 9, & 10) Agreed.
-- You do realize that feature is already available? Try clicking on Settings > Accounts > Get mail from other accounts.
Add your other Gmail account, follow the instructions, then voila... you can get email from ALL your other Gmail accounts from your primary account.
AND, on top of that... you can SEND email from the other accounts FROM your main account.
You DO use the service, right??
1) Better contact management... Make it easier to update contact details.
2) Drag and drop labeling... Take the look and feel of Docs and Spreadsheets for labeling. Makes more sense.
3) RSS/Google Reader integration.
4) Built-in Conversation Preview and Macros.
5) Attach a Google Docs and Spreadsheets document to an email (this seems like an obvious missing feature).
SyncML support so I can sync the contacts with my mobile phone
Better contact management in general. I don't want everyone who emails me automatically added to my contacts.
Persistent searches, with easy ways of searching for emails received today, this week, this month etc.
alx
2) Ability to encrypt emails
3) Better contact management
4) More advanced filtering options (regex?)
5) Google reader integration
While not really a 'gmail' addition, a thunderbird extension that allowed almost total gmail integration would be nice.
Nowadays it is common for people to have multiple computers. All I want is to be able to configure Outlook on both my laptop and desktop to read my multiple Gmail accounts without having to worry about synchronization. Even with POP3 configured to leave messages on the server when downloaded, I can only have Outlook check my email on one comp so I don't split up my messages between the 2 systems. Is it really that difficult to set up IMAP so people can have their desktops, laptops, and smart phones configured to check the same account?
2) Ability to import old mail so it's searchable and in Gmail (e.g. old UNIX mail, even Outloook .psts)
3)*Tighter* integration with Picasa!
Pascal
2. Choose to add a recipient to my contacts. Similar to Add to Outlook
3. When viewing spam, have a label for "One of your Contacts"
4. Use Contact Groups in filters
5. Integrate some of the better add-ons like Label Colors and Label Folders
6. Larger List Sizes, customizable
7. Inline reading, another add-on
I like keeping track of which e-mails I'm awaiting a response to. I currently do this by composing the e-mail, sending it, going to "sent mail", clicking on the e-mail I just sent, and then labeling it "Awaiting Response." I could save TONS of time/clicks if they'd just let me label it in the Compose Mail menu!
Or at the very least, fix their POP service so that messages in the webmail interface are actually archived if access through POP (there is an option for this, but I don't know anyone who it works for), don't send copies of emails that a user sends to the POP forward, things like that. It is embarrassingly broken.
My additions:
* "Always SPAM" - You'd think by now the spam filter would realize that 100% of the Russian and Hebrew emails I receive are spam. Wouldn't it be nice if you could select a message, click "Always SPAM" and have Gmail list the handful of parameters associated with the given message that you would like to use for the "always" definition.
* "Pop-up" - I'd like an optional mouse-over "pop-up" in the list view of appx. the first paragraph of any given mail message that you hesitate over with the mouse - a la "pop-ups" in Wikipedia or cooliris.
* Enhanced Contacts Tools #1 Deduping - Various smart deduping of contacts... My friend Gurn Blanston is in my contacts 6 different times for 6 different email addresses, even though I only mail him at one at the moment. Present me with the six based on his name and allow me to nix the rest.
* Enhanced Contacts Tools #2 Thinning the Herd - Allow me to see all my contacts sorted by the date they became a contact or by the date they last sent me and email or the date that I last sent them an email or how many emails we've sent to one another cumulatively. These views would make it easy to trim the massive contact list into something more manageable.
* Mailing list management - I know this is a tough one. GMAIL has done a fantastic job keeping itself from being used for massive amounts of spamming. Unfortunately, my friend who is in charge of the town's childrens' sports teams cannot easily do a bulk mailing to all of the parents involved. Sending a message out to 400 parents is tedious or impossible with Gmail. One must seek out a third party application in order to do this.
That's my list for the moment. Great discussion, everyone!
I LOVE MY GMAIL! Woooo!!!! Hehe!
I would like to have two other things... the ability to save a html signature (now only text) and possibly to mark an email with different simbols, not only stars!
that's what labels are for! you label something Important, then when you click on the label Important, all the Important emails come up.
seriously, don't fight the labels.
The others are very true. Also I would like to see (and I have already sent this suggestion to the GMail Team) is the ability to 'move' accounts. So for example I have mypersonalemail@gmail.com and I move to myname@mycompany.com (using Google Apps of course) or just another regular GMail account, I could move all my contacts and emails to the new account. I've recently switched to my company's Google Apps GMail account and what I'm doing is forwarding my emails to my personal GMail account and set up a 'send as' for my company's email in my personal account.
Just waiting for change. But I'm really excited!
Otherwise, I'm a loyal GMail fan!
I'd like a way to delete all mail marked "Spam", without having to look at it.
Every day, I switch to the "Spam" folder, to delete all mail in it manually.
During this process, I usually see a Spam subject header that says, "Do you want a bigger penis?"
Now, coming across this message once in a while is Ok.
But I'm exposed to it for a few seconds every day, which is a significant portion of my life.
I am afraid that daily repeated exposure to this message will harm me psychologically.
In fact, I might already have developed feelings of inadequacy, due to this subliminal toxin, and not even know it.
Sometimes a fellow tells you: "This night I'll send you the last version of the customers list!" and, of course, when you look at your mailbox at night you will see an email like this:
Subject: Here it is!
Body:
Attachment: adressesadded.doc
When, two months later, you want to find this file, it's almost impossible. You'll search "customer", "list", "contacts", etc. with no result.
Another example would be:
Subject: Look at this!
Body: It's great! [link to youtube]
I often receive these kind of poorly-filled emails, and to prevent that problem I must do a reply to myself adding "customer list doc contacts addresses", or "video dancing bears" to the body. I would like to be able to add some tags to the email for further searching instead of have to replying it.
1. Facility for "Web 2.0"-style tagging of messages/threads with optional sidebar tag cloud.
2. Advanced, highly customisable, menu-driven message search and selection options that would allow me, for example, to search for (and automatically select) all messages that meet **any combination** of a wide range of criteria, including:
- messages with specific labels/tags (or, indeed, unlabelled)
- messages containing (or not containing) specific keywords
- messages sent/received within a specified date range
- messages sent (or not sent) to/from specific people/organisations
3. Integration with Google Reader (as other comments have mentioned).
Also, the POP downloading seems to be rather slow. Again, when downloading 200 messages at a time, I'd really like to be able to download them much faster. Normal messages without attachments take me roughly 3 minutes to download.
Google has created Gmail apps for some mobile phones.
I am running the GMail application written for Blackberry and it is quite wonderful on my Blackberry 8100/Pearl.
Really, really good stuff.
You should check Flickr's uploader, nifty, simple. No need to create a full screen view like flickr, but multiple uploads make sense.
the facility to turn on/off the thread view shud be there
some times i wanted to delete some of the unwanted mails in the thread which we cant do now in Gmail