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A rundown of the new Gmail

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Re: A rundown of the new Gmail

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Post by eksu »

There is reason to be concerned with time expiring messages and other features that fragment the web and email, ultimately making us all more dependent on Google Services.

Re: A rundown of the new Gmail

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Post by steve19 »

pferde wrote: post #19

"Finally, a new confidential mode allows you to remove the option to forward, copy, download or print messages—useful for when you have to send sensitive information via email like a tax return or your social security number. You can also make a message expire after a set period of time to help you stay in control of your information." No, thanks. I like my e-mail archive under my own control.

Anyone know how this works with IMAP? Does it just not show up in IMAP, otherwise forwarding etc. is trivial (ignoring the fact that you could just screenshot the message and send the screenshot)

Re: A rundown of the new Gmail

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Post by y_molodtsov »

auscompgeek wrote: post #11
lsh wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use the business gmail version for work and it hasn't changed. Might be an opt-in thing?

At the bottom of the G Suite blog post: > The all-new Gmail experience is available for businesses to start using today in the G Suite Early Adopter Program (EAP) and can be turned on in the Admin console. [...] > Personal Gmail users can opt-in to the new experience, too (Go to Settings in the top right and select “Try the new Gmail.”).

Does anyone have an idea on how one can enroll in EAP? I couldn't find any setting or a link, but would really like to try it for our G-Suite.

Re: A rundown of the new Gmail

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Post by nextweek2 »

What I really want is a the Smart Reply feature to point out to the user that more than one question was asked of them.

It's so boring to ask two questions and get a reply to one or ask someone to choose one of two options and they reply with "Yes, go ahead".

Re: A rundown of the new Gmail

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Post by mephitix »

What’s going to happen to the Inbox app?

It looks like they’re converging but there are things like grouping of Trips, grouping by day, and pinning (which also takes emails and attachments offline) which I really like in Inbox...

Re: A rundown of the new Gmail

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Post by donttrack »

Moved off google products completely. A few years ago I would probably have been excited about this but today I can’t shake the cynic telling me everything they do is to just spy more efficiently.

Re: A rundown of the new Gmail

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Post by bufferoverflow »

gambiting wrote: post #12

Am I the only one that dreads new product updates recently? I used to be super enthusiastic about every new update for everything(cool! more stuff!) but Android, Youtube and Windows 10 updates especially have made me extremely jaded - it feels like every update I either lose some functionality or something I used every day has now moved to a completely different place for no good reason. I seriously consider disablin…

It's a mixed bag. Blender/Unreal/Unity3D updates are always awesome. Windows has objectively reduced functionality, like it's now nearly impossible to associate my favorite image viewer with the image files - every few weeks it resets to the windows photo viewer, which is garbage.
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