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Lately, the GMail team has been sort of pissing me off, with various things. Recent versions of GMail didn’t work on Chrome on one of my computers (yes, didn’t work on their own browser on my computer). They got rid of the Offline version. Well, I don’t always have connectivity and it felt like Google [...]
For a few days, my offline Gmail was refusing to synch up with the server. Every time I would try, I would instantly get an ! in the synch status and it would say “Synchronization has stopped unexpectedly”. Well, yeah. I had figured that part out. I’m sure there are lots of reasons for this, [...]
Finding all your unlabeled Gmail messages can be a chore. If you find yourself wanting to do that regularly, here’s how to build a bookmark for your link bar so you can have single-click access to all Gmail messages without a label.
Read on to achieve unlabeled gmail message mastery. Sort of »I’ve been on a long quest for an email client that I like. Granted, my wish list ranged from simple (must not crash constantly) to less simple (synch address books with online account). Despite high resource usage and some interface shortcomings, I think the new version of Yahoo! Zimbra is it. Finally, something to get [...]
What's so great about Zimbra? Read on »Short version: create a label (like ‘aaDelete’), enable keyboard shortcuts, use ‘l’, then label the message aaDelete, then ‘k’ to go to the next message. When you’re all done, select all messages labelled delete and then delete them. It’s sort of like a second Trash can since Google won’t make the first one work right.
Until there's an actual delete and go next button in Gmail, try this -»
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