If you like to abandon your Yahoo Mail account in favor of Gmail, here’s some good news. You can now move copy all your old contacts and email messages from the Yahoo! inbox to your new Gmail address without having to worry about complex IMAP or POP3 configuration.
How to Move from Yahoo Mail to Gmail
Gmail now offers a new import mails option under Settings -> Accounts and Import. Enter the username and password of Yahoo Mail account and all the messages will be copied to your Gmail account in the next few hours. Once the migration is over, any incoming email on your old Yahoo address will be auto-forward to your Gmail account for another month.
The reason why I stressed Yahoo! Mail here is because it was the only web email service that required users to upgrade to Mail! Plus for them to move their data out to another email provider. That however changed with today’s announcement on the Gmail blog.
The Import function is currently available in new Gmail accounts only (not Google Apps) but it will soon be available for all so if you are in a hurry, just set up another Gmail account and use Mail Fetcher to copy Yahoo mails from this new address to your old Gmail account.
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Gmail Suffers Yet Another Outage
Gmail users were greeted with a "Temporary Error (500)" message today, making the service temporarily unavailable.
Calling the outage another Gfail, Twitter buzzed with complaints from all over the world, with some complaining that Google Apps too was down.
The Google Apps page confirmed with a red cross against Google Mail, that there was downtime on Friday.
The service is back up as of now.
In February Gmail suffered an outage big enough for Google to pay for it with a 15-day credit.
Calling the outage another Gfail, Twitter buzzed with complaints from all over the world, with some complaining that Google Apps too was down.
The Google Apps page confirmed with a red cross against Google Mail, that there was downtime on Friday.
The service is back up as of now.
In February Gmail suffered an outage big enough for Google to pay for it with a 15-day credit.
7 Innovative Gmail Labs Features You Should Try Out
Google has a track record of providing high quality online applications and services. Gmail was a revolution in the field of web-based mail services. Until today it continues to set the standards by introducing new features and improving the user experience.
We have previously covered Google Labs features for Gmail. Here are 7 more innovative Gmail labs features that should not escape your awareness.
To enable Gmail Labs features, log into your Gmail account, go to >Settings >Labs, browse all experimental features and check enable for the ones you would like to use, then finally save your changes. As will be described below, some features require further settings to come into effect.
Signature Tweaks
No one wants to scroll through pages of quoted text to find contact information in the signature, right?
Signature Tweaks is one of the most simple features, taking care of this signature dilemma.
It tweaks your signature so that it will appear above the quoted text, rather than below it, which would be the default behavior. Simple, but cool.
Location in Signature
If you travel a lot, Location in Signature could be a fun feature or simply an easy way to share with your friends where you currently are.
To make your location appear in your signature, you need to enable this feature, have a signature (>Settings >General) and check “Append your location to the signature” below the signature box.
If you’re sneaky you could of course cheat a little and change your location manually. I wonder whether anyone has sent eMails from Mars, yet. April Fools Day anyone?
Superstars
Superstars gives you several more “stars” to star or visually tag your mail.
You can edit your superstars by going to >Settings >General and dragging icons from “not in use” to “in use” and vice versa.
Personally, I would love to see an even bigger variety of icons, for example gif images to draw extra attention and smileys.
Previews In Mail For Yelp, Picasa, Flickr & YouTube
Here we have one of the newer set of features added in mid March. It’s actually four individual features, but the essence is the same. If someone shares a Yelp review, a Picasa, Flickr or YouTube link, you no longer have to open the URL in a new browser tab. You can view the preview right in your mail.
Multiple Inboxes
Gmail supports filters, but filters can too easily drag mail from your attention, by silently moving them into the target folders. With Multiple Inboxes you can move important mail back into your field of vision. It gives you five extra panels that will appear in a custom location next, above or below your inbox.
Once the Multiple Inboxes feature is enabled, you can go to >Settings >Multiple Inboxes and add search queries for messages you always want have handy.
Here is how that will look like. On the left is my inbox, on the right you see the extra panels, which are starred messages, drafts and eMails from Twine.
Mail Goggles
This one will keep you from sending stupid mails in the middle of the night by making you solve math problems before being able to send an eMail.
Per default it is active Friday and Saturday between 10pm and 4am, but you can manually adjust days, times and difficulty level under >Settings >Generals.
Undo Send
Despite any precautions, accidents happen. So if you still send the wrong mail to the wrong person, you may be delighted to learn that Google has just recently implemented a feature that allows you to call your mail back.
Unfortunately, the undo feature will only work for a few seconds right after the message was sent. So you have to quickly realize your mistake!
What novel features would you like to see in Gmail Labs?
Enjoyed the article? Please leave a comment and tell us what you think about it.
We have previously covered Google Labs features for Gmail. Here are 7 more innovative Gmail labs features that should not escape your awareness.
To enable Gmail Labs features, log into your Gmail account, go to >Settings >Labs, browse all experimental features and check enable for the ones you would like to use, then finally save your changes. As will be described below, some features require further settings to come into effect.
Signature Tweaks
No one wants to scroll through pages of quoted text to find contact information in the signature, right?
Signature Tweaks is one of the most simple features, taking care of this signature dilemma.
It tweaks your signature so that it will appear above the quoted text, rather than below it, which would be the default behavior. Simple, but cool.
Location in Signature
If you travel a lot, Location in Signature could be a fun feature or simply an easy way to share with your friends where you currently are.
To make your location appear in your signature, you need to enable this feature, have a signature (>Settings >General) and check “Append your location to the signature” below the signature box.
If you’re sneaky you could of course cheat a little and change your location manually. I wonder whether anyone has sent eMails from Mars, yet. April Fools Day anyone?
Superstars
Superstars gives you several more “stars” to star or visually tag your mail.
You can edit your superstars by going to >Settings >General and dragging icons from “not in use” to “in use” and vice versa.
Personally, I would love to see an even bigger variety of icons, for example gif images to draw extra attention and smileys.
Previews In Mail For Yelp, Picasa, Flickr & YouTube
Here we have one of the newer set of features added in mid March. It’s actually four individual features, but the essence is the same. If someone shares a Yelp review, a Picasa, Flickr or YouTube link, you no longer have to open the URL in a new browser tab. You can view the preview right in your mail.
Multiple Inboxes
Gmail supports filters, but filters can too easily drag mail from your attention, by silently moving them into the target folders. With Multiple Inboxes you can move important mail back into your field of vision. It gives you five extra panels that will appear in a custom location next, above or below your inbox.
Once the Multiple Inboxes feature is enabled, you can go to >Settings >Multiple Inboxes and add search queries for messages you always want have handy.
Here is how that will look like. On the left is my inbox, on the right you see the extra panels, which are starred messages, drafts and eMails from Twine.
Mail Goggles
This one will keep you from sending stupid mails in the middle of the night by making you solve math problems before being able to send an eMail.
Per default it is active Friday and Saturday between 10pm and 4am, but you can manually adjust days, times and difficulty level under >Settings >Generals.
Undo Send
Despite any precautions, accidents happen. So if you still send the wrong mail to the wrong person, you may be delighted to learn that Google has just recently implemented a feature that allows you to call your mail back.
Unfortunately, the undo feature will only work for a few seconds right after the message was sent. So you have to quickly realize your mistake!
What novel features would you like to see in Gmail Labs?
Enjoyed the article? Please leave a comment and tell us what you think about it.
