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I don't see anything 'wrong' with GWT, just as there is nothing inherently wrong with writing iOS apps using Ruby (http://www.rubymotion.com/). For example the Inbox team did a fantastic job re bringing a great user experience to multiple platforms and I guess they were glad that they could use one language throughout instead of having to jump between various tools and idioms (see http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/going-under-hood-of-inbox.html). It's just that like you mentioned people do have different preferences when it comes to languages/tools/ecosystems. That's all. There are people building web services using PHP, Ruby, Python, Java, Haskell, Elixir, Erlang, Go, C++, JavaScript, Dart. Why not also have this choice on mobile?

This only works for senders with decent reputation. For borderline spam, manual markings will not trigger the unsubscribe. cite: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/unsubscribing-made-easy.html

Hierarchies and sub-views suck when you want to view them all the time, every day. Use the "Multiple Inboxes" lab feature to show all your starred messages on the same home screen as your inbox. No more "learning to love" gs. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-in-labs-multiple-inboxes.htm…

The greatest feature for me is Send and Archive: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-in-labs-send-archive.html

A lot of ISP's already support a UI for unsubscribing, for example Gmail http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/unsubscribing-made-easy.html. For more info on how this works check out http://www.list-unsubscribe.com

Gmail actually detects when you click spam and there's an unsubscribe method available, and will attempt to unsubscribe for you[1]. [1] http://gmailblog.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/unsubscribing-made-easy.html

It's spelled "Gmail", lowercase 'm'. Source: the Gmail blog, http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/

Actually, Gmail does something close to that. When you click "Report as spam", if it detects it's a mailing list, it offers to (try to) unsubscribe properly: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/unsubscribing-made-easy.html It's a bit strange that they don't give you the option then to unsubscribe without marking as spam (you can do it but with more clicks), but I would think that if you unsubscribe and mark as spam the overall system doesn't take the spam factor at all or as much. In that case, it's probably limited to your own account.

Gmail has a prototype feature to unsubscribe you from e-mails: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/unsubscribing-made-easy.html

> If it takes this long to get around to fixing the small things, how long is it going to take the fix the big things? Generally the small things don't get fixed because the big things are getting fixed. Gmail has been regularly releasing new features and new labs over the past year. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/

I think moving to SSL as a default is a good move. What difference does no logging on the receiving end make when your ISP can log everything you search for? In particular, GMail initially had SSL configurable, but then moved it to the default: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/default-https-access-for-gmail.h… . Apparently they don’t think the latency is a problem—or if they do, that it’s worth it to get the security benefits of HTTPS.

Gmail can take a "report spam" as unsubscribe request, for some mailing lists. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/unsubscribing-made-easy.html

I'm also getting 503's from http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/

I hate being the guy who sidetracks a thread off the bat by complaining about something unrelated, but... Whatever blogspot theme Google uses for this blog is just god awful (oh, I see, this is it: http://gmailblog.blogspot.co.uk/p/as-you-may-have-noticed-gmail-blog-h… and I swear it gets worse every time I view a post there. To wit: When I load the page I see the orange "loading" gears. Then that sliiiiides up to reveal the content. Really? Can they really not innovate here? This is a company that spends massive amounts of resources to get their homepage to load as quickly as possible. Heck, they even penalize companies in their index with slow loading times. And yet they purposefully add loading animations and transitions which add at least a second to page load, and probably more as far as time it takes me to engage in the content. Also, every time I reload the page I see something different. Sometimes there is text in the black menu bar. Sometimes there is not. Sometimes there is an "extra" screen that slides up after the orange loading gears, sometimes not. Sometimes the sidebar navigation is there, sometimes not. Try refresh a few times yourself and you'll see. Also, I love the five-second delay for the document URL update when you navigate via the sidebar. All of these fancy, look-we're-using-ajax, gee-whiz-its-a-single-page-app features -- just for a simple blog post. Talk about complicating a simple problem! Again, apologies for the rant but I…

For Gmail you can do similar scripting with Google Apps Script. This isn't exactly the same, but it's a similar example. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/gmail-snooze-with-apps-script.ht…

when I used it with Gmail it would always appear to people as "From [email protected] on behalf of [email protected]". This doesn't happen if you configure an external SMTP server in Google Mail for the alias. http://gmailblog.blogspot.de/2009/07/send-mail-from-another-address-wi… https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en Moreover, you don't want to use a different 'from' address without sending through the appropriate SMTP server. If the domain has SPF or DKIM set up, a receiving server might reject your mail if it wasn't sent from an expected SMTP server.

That's not at all what I meant. Gmail redirects emails to "[email protected]" to "[email protected]". Some people filter emails this way, henceforth my suggestion to check for this edge case. http://gmailblog.blogspot.de/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-more-from-yo… PS: The downvoters are downright silly on this website lately.

The Gmail team recently launched[0] PostMaster tools[1]. I'm not sure if everyone has access, but maybe it would help? [0] http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-mail-you-want-not-spam-you-d… [1] https://postmaster.google.com/

Google recently posted "The mail you want, not the spam you don’t": http://gmailblog.blogspot.de/2015/07/the-mail-you-want-not-spam-you-do…

He already got a response from the Gmail product manager, must be nice being Linus. Notice the comments from Sri Somanchi. He's listed as the product manager here: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-mail-you-want-not-spam-you-d…

Google just posted http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-mail-you-want-not-spam-you-d… "but sometimes these wanted messages are mistakenly classified as spam. When this happens, you might have to wade through your spam folder to find that one important email (yuck!). We can help senders to do better, so today we’re launching the Gmail Postmaster Tools." https://gmail.com/postmaster/

It's possible to have significant amounts of business logic. Google is able to share 70% of it's code (written in Java) for the Google Inbox apps[0][1]. [0]: http://gmailblog.blogspot.ca/2014/11/going-under-hood-of-inbox.html [1]: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/11/how-google-inbox…

Tangentially, in case someone else is curious, Google's Inbox doesn't use closure, it uses gwt and j2obc [1]. Probably due to the ability to use java code on android, IOS and the web. [1] http://gmailblog.blogspot.ru/2014/11/going-under-hood-of-inbox.html

I don't know for sure but most likely they're doing it for the same reasons they proxy images: Better protection against malware Source: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/images-now-showing.html Additionally I would assume that they may use the data for analytics and advertising in order to display more relevant ads. Another possibility would be to complement the site data they got from crawling websites.

I thought that too, but no. It seems it replaces the original link with a google url, which is basically a proxy address for that original url. It seems they may cache it, but don't preemptively download it when the mail is received. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/images-now-showing.html Obviously if they downloaded any image linked to an email send to gmail that could lead to a DOS, and be very wasteful in any case. So they wait until you actually open the email. But at least it obscures your IP unless you click on the links.

google already grabs the images via image proxy.. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/images-now-showing.html

as much as i'd like another "don't be evil" "debate" gmail shouldn't work like that. http://gmailblog.blogspot.ie/2013/12/images-now-showing.html correct me if I'm wrong, but the tagging support page is for "creative pages" with doubleclick, not emails: https://support.google.com/dfp_premium/answer/1347585?hl=en EDIT: ok well, turns out i'm wrong and here's how to turn off automatic image loading http://now.avg.com/disable-gmail-automatic-image-load/

The thing that annoys me most is that now GMail by default shows images which can allow spammers and marketers to detect open rates and validate active email addresses. These images are proxied, so the sender can't tell if you actually viewed them them. Only Google can. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/images-now-showing.html You can also disable the "auto-viewing" of images, as described in the link above. This is made worse by the fact that marking messages as spam requires you to open the email first. You can still check the little box next to the email (in the inbox view) and then click "spam". This allows you to mark an email as spam without viewing it.

http://gmailblog.blogspot.nl/2015/03/the-new-google-contacts-bringing.… has screenshots for the rest of us.

Old news from 2013. (http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/send-money-to-friends-with-gmail…