Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Coming Soon to Gmail: Automatic Vacation Responses and More

Caleb Eggensperger tells us there will be two new features coming to Google’s Gmail soon (how soon, nobody knows – usually these features are rolled out slowly, and can take anything from weeks to months to show up for everyone):

• The first feature has already been mentioned here because it was found by translating future Gmail interface texts; it’s Gmail Contact Groups. This is nothing new in the world of email and a feature most other email clients have as well (at least desktop clients). Instead of emailing a single person, you can group several addresses into one.
• The second feature are automatic vacation responses. That means whenever you’re away from your computer, you can set up an auto-reply to inform those who email you that you’re gone at the moment. (While Google says that they will not send this auto-response to messages flagged as spam, it’s also true they don’t correctly identify all messages as spam. This in return might “validate” your email to some spammers.)

Coming Soon to Gmail: Aut ... by Philipp Lenssen | Comments (11)

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