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Sorry I'm super dumb :( what does 'snoozing' your email mean?
Hide it for the desired time, and then show up again as unread.
and here I am thinking that it meant "send this email later"...
Gmail API
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#142I like the idea of opening gmail up to developers via a public API, but I don't like that it comes at the cost of removing support for an open standard like IMAP. I'm worried that API access could be cut back or eliminated entirely in the future depending on developer uptake, leaving gmail entirely inaccessible to third-party applications. Edit: I'm going off of this sentence: >It will replace IMAP, a common but comp…
The new API specifically recommends using IMAP for building a "full-fledged email client." I think you are misreading that statement.
I read it exactly as you did. Hopefully they won't change that!
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#143This looks like it'd be EXTREMELY useful for cronjobs and other things where you need to send email to yourself (or another address) automatically. It would remove the need to self-host email just so that you can send status reports...
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I've been waiting years for something like this. In the meantime, does anyone have any suggestions of third-party desktop applications that sync with gmail?
What is it that you want that a desktop mail client like Outlook or Thunderbird doesn't give you?
They don't preserve the correct labelling. Google rolled their own IMAP implementation to support putting a single email into multiple folders without copying the email. Thunderbird will take a copy of the email if it has more than one label.
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I use a small google script to "snooze" my emails. I change them to a custom label which the script looks for. The script just runs once a day and sends me a summary of ones with this label if I haven't already replied to them. If it's useful to anyone: http://pastebin.com/c4JvjNef
The Google Apps Developer blog had a post back in 2011 showing how to do this: http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/gmail-snoo...
Cool. Thanks. That's nicer than what I did!
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Seriously, I'm not trolling - why would you want to snooze an email (hide it from inbox and have it come back later - I had to go look it up)? Apart from that I like the API idea - I have been beta testing my own personal document scanner - I email myself photos of bills and receipts and file them under the subject line (ie file-as bills.electricity) - it beats the hell out of a document scanner I never used. Anyway…
> why would you want to snooze an email? I use my Gmail inbox as sort of a todo list. If a conversation is in my Inbox, it needs attention from me - I need to do some work related to it, reply to it, forward it, etc. Once I'm done with an email thread, I immediately archive it. If you use this workflow (many do), snoozing an email is useful. I use it primarily for threads where I'm not able to reply and provide infor…
gmail lets you create tasks on emails. Any reason you don't use that instead?