Re: GMail effective mail filtering
Hi David and WAMUG'ians, Many thanks for these important snippets about gMail. I have to say I am very impressed by its capabilities and what's more it is very fast in retrieving my mail. With time I'll be experimenting on those facilities as the need arise. Thanks for pointing these out. Hopefully others in my predilection will find using GMail convenient. By the way, Safari 3.2.1 (on OS X 10.5.6) does have the toggle to allow me to choose Simple Text formatting. Kind regards, Philippe Chaperon On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:50 AM, David Noel lis...@aoi.com.au wrote: As an early user of GMail, I'm impressed with the constantly increasing range of extra facilities available. A nice one is 'Chat' - if you are online to GMail at the same time as someone else on your list who has a gmail address, you can chat (type messages) live with them through a chat box which comes up automatically when the sender makes a chat request. We used it several times recently when our boys were in Central America or Iceland and happened to be online (at an internet cafe) at the same time as us. And to this facility, Google have recently added vision capability. If the sender of a chat has a webcam (as built in on all recent iMacs etc), you can see the sender live in a small window at the top of the chat box, and of course they can see you if you wish. The chat box can also be 'popped out' away from the gmail page, and this makes the vision box larger. David Noel 2009 Feb 22 == From: Philippe Chaperon laut...@westnet.com.au Subject: Re: GMail effective mail filtering Date: Fri Feb 20 23:07 Hi Glen, Well, it took me quite some time to find the toggle, but I had to use Firefox instead of my Safari 1.3.2. Must say that I'm using OS X 10.3.9 at the moment. So possibly the latest Safari will not have that problem. Whatever, I'm extremely happy with GMail. As usual the best advice is from WAMUG'ers (or WAMUGgians??). Thanks again, much appreciated. Kind regards and good night to all. Philippe C. On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Glenn Nicholas gl...@om4.com.au wrote: Phil, At the top of every Gmail text box (while you are composing an email) there is a toggle - Rich formatting (if you are in plain text mode) or Plain text (if you are rich text mode). Glenn. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: GMail effective mail filtering
As an early user of GMail, I'm impressed with the constantly increasing range of extra facilities available. A nice one is 'Chat' - if you are online to GMail at the same time as someone else on your list who has a gmail address, you can chat (type messages) live with them through a chat box which comes up automatically when the sender makes a chat request. We used it several times recently when our boys were in Central America or Iceland and happened to be online (at an internet cafe) at the same time as us. And to this facility, Google have recently added vision capability. If the sender of a chat has a webcam (as built in on all recent iMacs etc), you can see the sender live in a small window at the top of the chat box, and of course they can see you if you wish. The chat box can also be 'popped out' away from the gmail page, and this makes the vision box larger. David Noel 2009 Feb 22 == From: Philippe Chaperon laut...@westnet.com.au Subject: Re: GMail effective mail filtering Date: Fri Feb 20 23:07 Hi Glen, Well, it took me quite some time to find the toggle, but I had to use Firefox instead of my Safari 1.3.2. Must say that I'm using OS X 10.3.9 at the moment. So possibly the latest Safari will not have that problem. Whatever, I'm extremely happy with GMail. As usual the best advice is from WAMUG'ers (or WAMUGgians??). Thanks again, much appreciated. Kind regards and good night to all. Philippe C. On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Glenn Nicholas gl...@om4.com.au wrote: Phil, At the top of every Gmail text box (while you are composing an email) there is a toggle - Rich formatting (if you are in plain text mode) or Plain text (if you are rich text mode). Glenn. 2009/2/20 laut...@westnet.com.au: Dear WAMUG'ers, Well, after over 7 days of using GMail to filter all the rubbish which was appearing in my mail, I am glad to say that I do not now have any problem! One big bonus, I do not feel inadequate in any field!! To those who suggested GMail, many thanks. Not only do I receive my filtered mail from my Westnet account, but I can also send mail from GMail having my Westnet address. Very convenient in some cases. And to my surprise retrieving my mail is very fast indeed. One small but unimportant problem, I do not know whether I can send my messages via GMail in 'text' format. I have tried looking into this, but I can only see HTML formatting for outgoing mail. Which means that I have to go to my normal email application to send to the lists accepting only 'text' messages. But I can live with that. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
GMail effective mail filtering
Dear WAMUG'ers, Well, after over 7 days of using GMail to filter all the rubbish which was appearing in my mail, I am glad to say that I do not now have any problem! One big bonus, I do not feel inadequate in any field!! To those who suggested GMail, many thanks. Not only do I receive my filtered mail from my Westnet account, but I can also send mail from GMail having my Westnet address. Very convenient in some cases. And to my surprise retrieving my mail is very fast indeed. One small but unimportant problem, I do not know whether I can send my messages via GMail in 'text' format. I have tried looking into this, but I can only see HTML formatting for outgoing mail. Which means that I have to go to my normal email application to send to the lists accepting only 'text' messages. But I can live with that. Have a nice and safe week-end to all. Regards, Philippe Chaperon -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: GMail effective mail filtering
Phil, At the top of every Gmail text box (while you are composing an email) there is a toggle - Rich formatting (if you are in plain text mode) or Plain text (if you are rich text mode). Glenn. 2009/2/20 laut...@westnet.com.au: Dear WAMUG'ers, Well, after over 7 days of using GMail to filter all the rubbish which was appearing in my mail, I am glad to say that I do not now have any problem! One big bonus, I do not feel inadequate in any field!! To those who suggested GMail, many thanks. Not only do I receive my filtered mail from my Westnet account, but I can also send mail from GMail having my Westnet address. Very convenient in some cases. And to my surprise retrieving my mail is very fast indeed. One small but unimportant problem, I do not know whether I can send my messages via GMail in 'text' format. I have tried looking into this, but I can only see HTML formatting for outgoing mail. Which means that I have to go to my normal email application to send to the lists accepting only 'text' messages. But I can live with that. Have a nice and safe week-end to all. Regards, Philippe Chaperon -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: GMail effective mail filtering
Hi Glen, Well, it took me quite some time to find the toggle, but I had to use Firefox instead of my Safari 1.3.2. Must say that I'm using OS X 10.3.9 at the moment. So possibly the latest Safari will not have that problem. Whatever, I'm extremely happy with GMail. As usual the best advice is from WAMUG'ers (or WAMUGgians??). Thanks again, much appreciated. Kind regards and good night to all. Philippe C. On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Glenn Nicholas gl...@om4.com.au wrote: Phil, At the top of every Gmail text box (while you are composing an email) there is a toggle - Rich formatting (if you are in plain text mode) or Plain text (if you are rich text mode). Glenn. 2009/2/20 laut...@westnet.com.au: Dear WAMUG'ers, Well, after over 7 days of using GMail to filter all the rubbish which was appearing in my mail, I am glad to say that I do not now have any problem! One big bonus, I do not feel inadequate in any field!! To those who suggested GMail, many thanks. Not only do I receive my filtered mail from my Westnet account, but I can also send mail from GMail having my Westnet address. Very convenient in some cases. And to my surprise retrieving my mail is very fast indeed. One small but unimportant problem, I do not know whether I can send my messages via GMail in 'text' format. I have tried looking into this, but I can only see HTML formatting for outgoing mail. Which means that I have to go to my normal email application to send to the lists accepting only 'text' messages. But I can live with that. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: GMail effective mail filtering
Glad you found it Philllipe. One of the best features of Gmail is when you use it as part of the free Google Apps bundle. You can map your Google Apps account to your own domain, and have myemailaddr...@mydomain.com as your email address (you need to configure some DNS records for your domain name to do this). Glenn. 2009/2/21 Philippe Chaperon laut...@westnet.com.au: Hi Glen, Well, it took me quite some time to find the toggle, but I had to use Firefox instead of my Safari 1.3.2. Must say that I'm using OS X 10.3.9 at the moment. So possibly the latest Safari will not have that problem. Whatever, I'm extremely happy with GMail. As usual the best advice is from WAMUG'ers (or WAMUGgians??). Thanks again, much appreciated. Kind regards and good night to all. Philippe C. On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Glenn Nicholas gl...@om4.com.au wrote: Phil, At the top of every Gmail text box (while you are composing an email) there is a toggle - Rich formatting (if you are in plain text mode) or Plain text (if you are rich text mode). Glenn. 2009/2/20 laut...@westnet.com.au: Dear WAMUG'ers, Well, after over 7 days of using GMail to filter all the rubbish which was appearing in my mail, I am glad to say that I do not now have any problem! One big bonus, I do not feel inadequate in any field!! To those who suggested GMail, many thanks. Not only do I receive my filtered mail from my Westnet account, but I can also send mail from GMail having my Westnet address. Very convenient in some cases. And to my surprise retrieving my mail is very fast indeed. One small but unimportant problem, I do not know whether I can send my messages via GMail in 'text' format. I have tried looking into this, but I can only see HTML formatting for outgoing mail. Which means that I have to go to my normal email application to send to the lists accepting only 'text' messages. But I can live with that. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
