Gmail Wishlist: 5 Features I’d Like to See

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:

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This post was written by Nikhil Pai on July 13, 2008

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Gmail Labs: Good concept but useless features

Google has added the Gmail Labs functionality to its Gmail service. A collection of 13 new experimental features, Gmail Labs allows users to try out new features which Google wants to try out before they introduce it to the regular Gmail service. Unfortunately while the concept is super, the current features on offer are not.

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This post was written by Nikhil Pai on June 7, 2008

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Yahoo mail features differ by country

One of the most annoying part regarding the Yahoo Mail featuresets is that the free features offered by Yahoo differ on a country to country basis. While advanced features like POP & Forwarding are not available for free to users having email on the yahoo.com domain, they are available to most of the users on other country specific yahoo domains like yahoo.co.uk, yahoo.co.uk, yahoo.com.au or yahoo.co.in !!

To further confuse matters, the features also depend upon what are the Country & Content settings selected in the Account Information of the Yahoo user. So if somebody on yahoo.co.uk changes his settings to English-US, then his POP & forwarding gets disabled even though he is a yahoo.co.uk user. For a yahoo.com user, no matter what settings you select, there is no chance of POP & Forwarding getting enabled.

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This post was written by Nikhil Pai on April 9, 2008

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