GMail gets auto-replies

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Post by ajbatac » Wed, Oct 22, 2008, 3:25 AM UTC

GMail gets auto-replies
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Re: GMail gets auto-replies

#2

Post by holygoat » Wed, Oct 22, 2008, 3:33 AM UTC

That's a really interesting feature, implemented without UI suckitude. Always nice to see...

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Post by vulpes » Wed, Oct 22, 2008, 5:13 AM UTC

Lets hope that next feature of google labs will be the ability to turn it on in Google Apps

Re: GMail gets auto-replies

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Post by ntoshev » Wed, Oct 22, 2008, 12:00 PM UTC

vulpes wrote: post #3

Lets hope that next feature of google labs will be the ability to turn it on in Google Apps

It is available; can be turned on from Settigns | Labs.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 22, 2008, 1:51 PM UTC

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Post by crosscompile » Wed, Oct 22, 2008, 1:54 PM UTC

Now lets see being able to manually set your status as "away" in gmail chat. PLEASE.

Re: GMail gets auto-replies

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Post by JulianMorrison » Wed, Oct 22, 2008, 3:41 PM UTC

Is it just me, or does GMail seem to have become a bit of a low-priority backwater in Google's grand design? There's a difference between simplicity and abandonware, and they're nudging it.

Re: GMail gets auto-replies

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Post by maximilian » Wed, Oct 22, 2008, 4:00 PM UTC

JulianMorrison wrote: post #7

Is it just me, or does GMail seem to have become a bit of a low-priority backwater in Google's grand design? There's a difference between simplicity and abandonware, and they're nudging it.

It must be just you, because they've kept adding things that I've found immensely useful like imap and pop checking for other nongmail-accounts. I think they do a lot behind the scenes to make it great.

Gmail also works great. At some point a design reaches a limit as to how much better it can be.

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Post by waleedka » Wed, Oct 22, 2008, 6:54 PM UTC

ntoshev wrote: post #4

vulpes wrote: post #3

Lets hope that next feature of google labs will be the ability to turn it on in Google Apps

It is available; can be turned on from Settigns | Labs.

Not in Google Apps. I tried, and I don't have the "labs" link. I can enable it for my regular gmail account though.

Re: GMail gets auto-replies

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Post by staunch » Wed, Oct 22, 2008, 9:11 PM UTC

maximilian wrote: post #8

JulianMorrison wrote: post #7

Is it just me, or does GMail seem to have become a bit of a low-priority backwater in Google's grand design? There's a difference between simplicity and abandonware, and they're nudging it.

It must be just you, because they've kept adding things that I've found immensely useful like imap and pop checking for other nongmail-accounts. I think they do a lot behind the scenes to make it great. Gmail also works great. At some point a design reaches a limit as to how much better it can be.

> At some point a design reaches a limit as to how much better it can be.

I assume this is true as well but there's no reason to suspect Gmail is anywhere near as good as it could potentially be.