[plug] Gmail Accounts

[Trevor Phillips]

On Monday 21 June 2004 11:54, Simon Scott wrote:
> 
> How does it differ from normal webmail, apart from all the advertising?

Sorry - should've finished my list before sending. A few other nice features I 
like:
  *Nice "threading" of message threads. Other mailers can thread, but this has 
been the cleanest implementation I've seen. Opening a "conversation" lists 
all past messages with "tabs". Already read messages are hidden (openable by 
clicking the tab), while new messages are expanded. If there's LOTS of 
messages, then for most read messages a very thin tab is shown (no text 
label).
  *Message list view shows the first snippet of the conversation. (It's 
useful!)
  *HTML messages have inline images OFF (a good thing), but they can be 
quickly enabled by a single click (a good thing - sometimes I want the 
images)
  *Easy Spam Filtering - probably Bayesian. Not a biggie for me, since my 
existing mail system has pretty comprehensive filtering, but it's well 
implemented.
  *Context sensitive Ads. As mentioned, my brain filters them, but my Wife 
likes this feature. Several times she's had Emails (legit) talking of 
products - and the ads have been links to the product home pages.

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