Google for your Domain

[jbailey]

I've been playing with Google for your Domain over the past couple of weeks for Angie and my's email. A few observations so far:

1) Still a bit worried that Google now has a pile of my data. I don't know that there's a way to resolve this. I'm wondering if there's a way of doing GPG overlays onto gmail? For the most part I don't really care, but it would be nice to preserve the option of doing a local decryption.

2) It's nice to use my email address for my Jabber account finally. No more having to remember to check the gmail account from time to time to see if someone decided sending an email there would be a good idea. I should probably do the same with my hotmail account.

3) Google talk and Orkut don't play along with GfyD.

4) Google's incremental improvements are cool. In the past week they added customised start pages, which means that I can see my mail and calendar from a start page. The start page isn't as fully featured as the original start page (historical searches, various customer applets, etc. don't work), but looks alot like it did awhile ago.

5) gmail doesn't have a way of filtering on mailing lists. This annoyed me at first, but now is more of a reminder that I should unsubscribe from lists that I don't actually read anyway. The volume on the rest is low enough that I can continue to filter by hand.

Update: It seems that gmail *can* filter on mailing lists, it's just not documented. I've just setup a filter for listid:bug-gnulist.gnu.org and it seems to work. Use it in the "Has the words" section of the filter. Bug #83778177 filed with gmail for an update to http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7190

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

5) is not correct. You can filter messages by using filters and labels

[jbailey.livejournal.com]

You can't auto-filter based on mailing lists, just based on to and cc, which is inadequate and unreliable.

Not true

[(Anonymous)]

It's probably not documented terribly well, but you can filter on list-id, using the listid: keyword in the "has the words" field.

Re: Not true

[jbailey.livejournal.com]

Ah interesting. It seems to work, although it's not documented in http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7190 at all.

Thanks!

[maxie21.livejournal.com]

Google's products are pretty good nowadays and much better than its counterparts like Yahoo and Bing. But most of your observations are true about Google and some of them I really don't know about.
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