A couple weeks of weeks ago Gmail launched its Multiple Inboxes, a Google labs extension. That you can use to customize the different “inboxes” you see in one view when you log into Gmail.
Just say for an example if you forward all your work email to Gmail, you can use Multiple Inboxes to see your two accounts separately within the same browser window. Here’s how:
1. Turn on Multiple Inboxes from the Labs tab under Settings.
2. Set up a filter to auto-archive all mail sent to your work or school address.
3. Customize one of your multiple inboxes to show mail sent to your other address. To do this, go to the Multiple Inboxes tab under Settings and set up one of the panes to search for mail sent to your other address.
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TIP: you can use a “custom from” address so that replies will be sent from Gmail but as if they’re from your other account. This way no one will know the difference.
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On January 27, 2009 gmail released a offline version of their web based email. It is now possible to check your current emails if you have no internet access available. Last time I checked I think it downloads the latest 10,000 messages. So for an example you type up an email on gmail and click send since you are using the offline version of gmail it will stay in your outbox and when you connect back to the internet later it will send the emails and check for new messages. You can choose to use “flaky connection mode,” which is somewhere in between: it uses the local cache as if you were disconnected, but still synchronizes your mail with the server in the background.
This is still a experimental feature so it may have a couple of bugs.
To set it up
1. Click Settings and click the Labs tab.
2. Select Enable next to Offline Gmail.
3. Click Save Changes.
4. After your browser reloads, you’ll see a new “Offline 0.1″ link in the upper righthand corner of your account, next to your username. Click this link to start the offline set up process and download Gears if you don’t already have it.
Here is a interesting video that the gmail team made that covers all the features of the new gmail offline labs feature.
