Same in Thunderbird
The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
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Re: The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
#32Mail.app does this too, except that I keep using it accidentally.
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#33Wow!! This is fantastic.
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#34Most mail clients seem to do this (maybe not so many web-based ones). Gmail has the problem of creating Tofu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting#Top-posting
Does anyone care about top posting any more? I feel like I haven't heard the term since my newsgroup days.
My work email is usually HTML which is clumsy to reformat with the precision I had formatting simple text using Emacs+Gnus on Usenet. Normally I'd rather have the transcript of successive emails anyway.
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#35That's interesting. Thunderbird has been doing this for a while, and I love it.
Same for Apple Mail. I definitely don't love it: 1. I'm one of those serial overliners which will randomly select text and paragraphs while reading, so half the time I end up with a completely useless piece of quoted text. 2. I craft mail responses by quoting all the original mail, interspersing responses and cutting the stuff I don't care for afterwards, very rarely do I only need to quote a single contiguous block…
In apple mail you can actually turn this off! (Settings, bottom of the composing tab.)
- another selection reader
Re: The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
#36A great Gmail feature that a lot of people don't use is "Send & Archive". It's very useful for keeping a clean inbox.
Re: The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
#37Wow, great, a condescending title! Fact is, I am using this. It used to be in the settings, I think, which is how I found out about it. And as others have stated, it's in a lot of mail clients. Apple Mail supports this, as does the iOS mail app, too. "I haven't heard of this feature" != "no one knows about this feature".
He's just using the greatest marketing trick you've never heard of.
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#38Like many, it's probably one of the first "feature" I bumped into with Gmail and that still annoys the hell out of me years later.
Re: The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
#39Wow, great, a condescending title! Fact is, I am using this. It used to be in the settings, I think, which is how I found out about it. And as others have stated, it's in a lot of mail clients. Apple Mail supports this, as does the iOS mail app, too. "I haven't heard of this feature" != "no one knows about this feature".
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Re: The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
#40The greatest gmail feature you're not using is probably "Undo Send", if you're not already using it. I have it set to the longest possible timeout of 30 secs, and would like an even higher value.