Wow. Just minutes after expressing my frustrations about being unable to control the order of Gmail filters, I figured out a simple workaround. As it turns out, Gmail Labs has a “Filter import/export” function that makes it all possible.
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Title says it all… Why, oh why can’t I control the order in which Gmail filters are applied? They appear on the list in the order in which they were created, and there is no way to re-order them. Depending on how heavily you rely on filters for managing your e-mail, this matters. A lot.
Oh well. Like the (in)ability to schedule messages to be sent later, I guess this is just one more feature to request from Google.
Update: Problem solved: How to Change the Order of Your Gmail Filters.
One of the things that I constantly struggle with is e-mail overload. I get way more than I can handle, and I’m not great about processing it. That means that it builds up in my inbox to the point of overwhelming me.
Have you ever wished you could schedule an e-mail message to be sent in the future? I have. And until today, I hadn’t found a good solution. While some local mail clients include this feature, Gmail does not. Moreover, even if your client supports scheduling, you’ll likely need to have it open at the right time in order to work. Not exactly failsafe in my book.
If you’re a Gmail user, you may have noticed that there was a major Gmail outage earlier today. This outage affected both Gmail per se as well as Google Apps Mail. Attempts to access Gmail directly (using the web interface) resulted in a server error, effectively stopping millions from accessing their e-mail.
Have you gotten bored of the plain vanilla Gmail interface? If so, you’re in luck… Google rolled out a variety of new themes awhile back. To access them simply click on “Settings” in the top right corner and then look for the “Themes” tab all the way on the right. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about, check out the following picture.
Shortly after getting my iPhone 3Gs, I decided to move my online life into Google Apps. One of the driving forces behind this decision has been exceptionally bad spam filtering by the e-mail server at work. It’s so bad, in fact, that I’ve become very dependent on client-side filtering*. Unfortunately, the iPhone mail client isn’t capable of filtering spam, so I was often getting spam in my inbox when checking mail remotely.
I recently migrated all of my e-mail into Google Apps (basically Gmail for those with their own domain) and have been managing it via IMAP using Apple’s Mail.app. Following a recent OS X 10.5.x update, however, Mail.app has insisted on creating a Gmail label called “Apple Mail To Do.” If you delete this label, it just comes back the next time Mail syncs with your Gmail account. Annoying.
Have you ever noticed that the iPhone shrinks your photos when you e-mail them? I’m guessing that this limitation is AT&T’s fault, but wherever you place the blame, it’s annoying. The iPhone 3Gs is capable of shooting 3 megapixel photos, so who wants them arbitrarily downsized to 800 x 600 when e-mailing them? Not me. The good news is that it’s easy to avoid this problem and send full-resolution photos.
I’ve been cleaning out a bunch of old messages from Gmail, and have thus been looking for a setting that would allow me to open an unread message, delete it, and automatically open the next unread message. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a setting for this anywhere, and numerous Google searches came up empty.