Gmail, arguably the best free email service around is not without its shortcomings. While Google has made a lot of enhancements to Gmail since its launch, there are still many things that could make it even better. Here are the top five features on my wish list:
1. Custom “From” emails without the “sent on behalf of” tagline:
Gmail’s custom ‘From:’ feature lets you send messages with another address in place of your Gmail address. However, in such cases, your Gmail address is still included in your email header’s sender field with the result that some versions of Microsoft Outlook displays “From yourusername@gmail.com on behalf of customaddress@mydomain.com” This in our opinion defeats the basic purpose of introducing this feature and users are left with no option but to use Google’s separate service, Google Apps for Your Domain.
2. Option of Folders and Labels:
GMail currently uses Labels in place of folders to manage your email in your Inbox. While Labels do have their own advantages over Folders, it would not hurt Google to provide an option between using Labels & Folders to effectively manage email.
3. Whitelisting:
Gmail allows you to block a particular email address from sending you an email. But it does not provide the option of whitelisting an email address to ensure that certain important emails never go to the Spam folder.
4. Better Contact Manager
Gmail’s contact manager is quite ordinary and does not provide any advanced options such as merging contacts provided by Yahoo Mail & Windows Live Mail.
5. Display Mail Size
Gmail currently does not display the size of the emails in the inbox. This prevents sorting of email based on size. Of course Gmail is already at 6 GB+ of space…but still!
Do you also wish to suggest any improvements to Gmail? Just hop on to the Gmail Help Centre: Suggest features section and let Google know what features matter to you. Google also provides the option to suggest “Want Gmail to do your laundry?” Well, as Google themselves says, it never hurts to ask.
