gmail question

i'm beginning to think it's a "feature" of gmail that can't be undone. oh well. if anyone has any ideas share them here.

if all of the following conditions are met
From CONTAINS [my email [email protected]]

Perform the following actions:
MOVE MESSAGE to the mailbox [Sent Mail]

ta da!

Stupid question - is there some kind of trick to having Gmail autodetect the previous quoted mail lines that are hidden under "Show quoted text"? It seems like half the time it works properly, and the other hand it doesn't hide at all.

soooo... i think gmail has eaten several old (1.3 years or so) emails with attachments. they're not terribly important and I'm pretty sure I've backed them up on my laptop at home, but still... they were there a few weeks ago. I'm waaayy under my alloted 7319 MB btw.

has anyone dealt with similar?? I followed all the instructions in the help menu but hit a dead end.

so how do you guys keep your gmail organized? how do you use colored labels? folders?

my strategy so far seems to be letting everything accumulate in my inbox, then archiving everything at once. no attempt at keeping separate folders, praying that the 'Search' function will be adequate.

http://inboxzero.com/video/

^ game changer for me

not sure how many of these I've read, but there are these too

http://inboxzero.com/articles/

anyway: Inbox Zero helped me a lot

how do I know if someone is accessing my gmail account? I'm sure I haven't read some of these e-mails showing up as read

I've checked the account details tab and it shows access from ireland and america... are those likely nefarious or could it just be my mobile polling via weird ips?

Sounds bad to me. Try changing your password and see if it persists.
To see if it's a proxy for your mobile, I guess you could check that by manually making your phone check your email and see if the IP pops to the top of the list?

I use the two-factor authorization myself, which is occasionally a pain in the tuchus, but at least feels a mite safer. See http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/04/make-your-email-hacker-proof.html

have you checked the activity information screen ?

to get to it you scroll down to the bottom of your inbox, and underneath the email listings is a small link : 'details'

this will provide you with more information as to the IPs and the access methods.

maybe this will help ?

http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=45938&rd=1

logged out. changed password. logged out all other sessions. implemented 2-step verification.

go to check e-mail there and pretty sure I didn't read the last e-mail I received and the activity shows

Mobile Ireland (176.34.251.101) 1:15 pm (25 minutes ago)
Mobile United States (184.73.173.42) 1:15 pm (25 minutes ago)

sorry. i have no idea re email/mobile phone access.

however, could it be part of the way your mobile collects emails that its configured to set the emails as read ?

Those IPs are both servers running on EC2. Is something automated checking your accounts for you? There's all kinds of crap GMail add-ins you can enable that will auto-check. Like that new iPhone app that pulls your calendar from your messages.

Which app is that?

http://cueup.com/ -- I like the idea, but no way am I giving them access.

Cozen: You can check which apps have taken tokens (which survive past password changes) here https://accounts.google.com/IssuedAuthSubTokens once you have logged in.

It's kinda a huge hole that sites don't offer to revoke tokens when a password is changed. Twitter is terrible for this: people don't realise that once they've been hacked changing their password does nothing unless they also revoke all their open tokens

sooooo what the eff is up with labels and sublabels

the whole point of making sublabels is that if i search for a label, anything that's subordinate to that label comes up, but this is definitely not the case

halp, this is annoying

like if i give something a label, i want it to automatically have the label of its parent

fuck it, i'll do it manually

/hierarchical dinosaur

turns out office administrators ca. 1880 were onto something

wtf

i enabled a couple labs and now my account is very fucked.

this is all that it will show me, regardless of the numerous actions i've taken.... guh

http://i.imgur.com/VC3gql.png

If (when) a Labs feature breaks, and you're having trouble loading your inbox, there's an escape hatch. Use https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?labs=0.

Which was prevented from opening by whatever went horribly wrong....

Things are fixed now. That sucked.

And my vacation message was turned on by this screw-up. So weird.

Can anyone help with the following: Blocking people on gmail sends their messages to Spam. I don't want to see the messages anywhere in gmail. Do I need a third party app?

Set up a filter to automatically delete them?

yep... settings > filters. you set it to automatically delete emails from a specific address.

you *can* set it...

Sweet, thanks new noise and Jordan :)

although... i think the emails will go to the trash folder so they won't be completely gone from gmail (until they are automatically deleted from the trash after 30 days).

can also do it from the email > More > Filter Messages Like These > Create filter with this search > Delete it (i do it many times a day)

xp but you wont see any notification like you do when they are sent to spam.