Google for your Domain
Nov. 19th, 2006 02:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jbaileyI'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
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
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Date: 2006-11-20 05:46 am (UTC)Not true
Date: 2006-11-20 07:25 am (UTC)Re: Not true
Date: 2006-11-20 07:56 am (UTC)Thanks!