Gmail becomes safer
Posted by Kevin Horrocks on 08 July 2008 - 18:55 · 30 comments & 6821 views
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#2 Posted by tsupersonic on 08 Jul 2008 - 18:58
- Nice.
Woohoo it was applied to one of my accounts! Very nice!
Last edited by tsupersonic on 09 Jul 2008 - 01:25
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#3 Posted by Citizen Erased on 08 Jul 2008 - 19:20
- Cool. I love Gmail.
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#4 Posted by +Island Dog on 08 Jul 2008 - 19:27
- Fantastic!
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#5 Posted by chenks on 08 Jul 2008 - 19:30
- i take it this is not live yet, as i don't see any footer information.
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#5.1 Posted by coolkat007 on 08 Jul 2008 - 19:34
- +1
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#5.2 Posted by Horrocks on 08 Jul 2008 - 19:34
- (chenks said @ #5)i take it this is not live yet, as i don't see any footer information.
From Google:
Note: We are in the process of rolling this feature out to the latest version of Gmail, which is available for Firefox and Internet Explorer 7. -
#5.3 Posted by chenks on 08 Jul 2008 - 19:37
- (Horrocks said @ #5.2)(chenks said @ #5)i take it this is not live yet, as i don't see any footer information.
From Google:
Note: We are in the process of rolling this feature out to the latest version of Gmail, which is available for Firefox and Internet Explorer 7.
as i am a safari user i guess i have to wait.
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#7 Posted by RichardK on 08 Jul 2008 - 19:33
- I saw something pop up in the lower right had side that said "Last logged in" but then it disappeared when the page loaded fully.
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#8 Posted by KavazovAngel on 08 Jul 2008 - 19:43
- Nice to know. Not available for me yet.
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#9 Posted by +status-seeker on 08 Jul 2008 - 20:10
- Wow.. Google never dissapoints. This is a very good feature imo.
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#10 Posted by thealexweb on 08 Jul 2008 - 20:35
- Why is Gmail still in Beta, it's been stable for years.
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#10.1 Posted by chilliadus on 08 Jul 2008 - 21:10
- (thealexweb said @ #10)Why is Gmail still in Beta, it's been stable for years.
So they could claim it's provided "AS IS".
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#11 Posted by .statix on 08 Jul 2008 - 21:27
- Wow this is really lame. As an avid email stalker, this is going to be really disapointing when people start figuring out that ive been reading their emails for years. An email service rolled this feature out a long time ago, since they were so small they werent able to fully maintain their service and promptly shut down. As was the case with that service, most people wont know what their ip addresses are.
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#12 Posted by darkpuma on 08 Jul 2008 - 21:37
- Sounds cool, and remote sign off should be amazingly useful
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#13 Posted by Tikitiki on 08 Jul 2008 - 22:09
- Would be nice to be able to password protect/encrypt certain emails before we're able to read them
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#14 Posted by aarste on 08 Jul 2008 - 22:39
- Gmail still gets flooded with spam despite not using my address anywhere on sites. My own email address gets none >.<
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#14.1 Posted by x-byte on 08 Jul 2008 - 23:16
- (aarste said @ #14)Gmail still gets flooded with spam despite not using my address anywhere on sites. My own email address gets none >.<
Because it's popular?
No problems with spam for me. My inbox almost never have spam. As long as it gets filtered I really don't care. -
#14.2 Posted by tiagosilva29 on 08 Jul 2008 - 23:50
- What I hate about Gmail is that it doesn't have a blacklist/whitelist feature.
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#14.3 Posted by tsupersonic on 09 Jul 2008 - 00:29
- I haven't given my address out to anything I consider spam, and I receieve no spam in my inbox. I even get no spam in the spam folder lol. It is very nice. However I do have another gmail account for spam purposes, and damn it gets a lot of spam mail, more so than hotmail and yahoo mail, but 95% of it ends up in the spam folder, so it's all good
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#14.4 Posted by Magallanes on 09 Jul 2008 - 02:18
- [quote=aarste said,#14]Gmail still gets flooded with spam despite not using my address anywhere on sites. My own email address gets none >.
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#15 Posted by TonyLock on 08 Jul 2008 - 23:05
- They should improve the Windows Google Mail Notifier and make it work for multiple accounts.
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#17 Posted by jayr0 on 09 Jul 2008 - 03:34
- when can we start blocking addys is what i want to know
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#18 Posted by Kushan on 09 Jul 2008 - 09:15
- Just checked it out and I'm impressed. It showed my current session at work as well as my computer at home (I recognise the IP), so it definitely works.
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#19 Posted by kaborka on 09 Jul 2008 - 20:04
- I never see the webmail interface cuz I always use it via IMAP in Outlook.
In addition to above, users will also be able to see if they are logged in on another computer, and check recent activity to ensure their account is not being accessed by anyone else. Should a user forget to sign out, they are now able to safely remotely sign out from any location.
The Gmail service is one of the most popular web mail services, but Google is keen to make it safer.
"Your email account can contain a lot of personal information, from bank alerts to love letters. Email that, I'm sure, you don't always want other people to see," Gmail Engineer Erwin D'Souza.
The features are currently in the process of being tested and rolled out to the public. Some may have access to these features while others may not. They will be fully accessible to everyone in a short period of time.