Move again
Since sourcefore have fixed the SQL performance issue, I have moved the official site back to gmail-lite.sourceforge.net.
Outgoing message encoding
Once again, Google introduced a new feature to Gmail silently. You can now select your outgoing message encoding in your Mail Settings panel. By default, Gmail determines what encoding should be used for you, or you can force it to be UTF-8.
This new feature may not be very significant to English writers, but to people using other languages with different encoding, such as BIG5 of Chinese characters, this is very useful. I know many have stopped using Gmail because the messages they sent were “corrupted”.
Details about this feature can be found here.
Hidden new features of Gmail?
While analyzing Gmail’s data transferring protocol and data structure for our development of libgmailer, we sometimes see hints or clues suggesting “hidden” new features of Gmail that Google programmers could be testing or developing at the moment.
For example, I was checking Gmail’s “send mail” protocol for fixing some bugs and implementing the new “send as” feature, when I discovered a field called “autosave” in the data packet.
Does it mean Google is implementing an “auto save” feature that you can enable when you are drafting email? If yes, that would be really, really useful! Everyone knows how frustrated it is if you closed the wrong window or pressed the wrong “discard” button after you have typed a long email.
I surely hope my theory is correct and they will release this new feature very soon.
UPDATE: The auto-save feature has just launched! By default your composing mail will be saved every 20 minutes, and it seems that there is no way to change it. You can read more about it here (required Gmail login).
First post, again!
Once again I am the author of the first post of gmail-* blog… but this time the blog is located in a new server!
