Google Mail Labels. Maxlength=40. Jul 07. 082
Well after hearing from Darren that he was switching in full to using Google for business email I decided to investigate myself. Google have a fantastic offer for small businesses; up to 25 mail accounts with a 6Gb limit ‘each’ which runs through your own domain.
It’s all pretty easy to set up though if you have a lot of existing email to import (how about 3Gb) then it can be quite painful!
I start shifting email across a few days back, starting with folders containing email to prospects then working my way slowly through my client folders, which are organised by client and job number. This is where I hit a big snag. Google Mail does not support folders (or labels as they call them) which have names that are longer than 40 characters. So as much as I would love to use Google for Mail because I might have a folder called ‘Clients’ with a sub folder called ‘John Smith Tractors’ and a folder inside that called ‘J123 – Website Development’ I am well and truly stuck.
Nothing I can do about it unless I want to spend hours renaming all my folders, shortening the names or manually re-labeling all the email to use multiple labels once inside Google Mail.
If only there was a script that turned ‘folders with sub folders’ into ‘multiple labels’ then I would be saved.
SiteVista launches email testing service Jan 11. 072
See how your email newsletters look in a wide range of different email clients, and webmail systems. For every email you send to us, you receive two screen captures. One of the email as it is displayed in the software’s preview pane (see an example), and using our FullPage technology, showing you the entire message once it’s been opened (see an example).
I’d always thought that the Campaign Monitor would do well to get cosy with Paul and the rest of the SiteVista team, an integrated ‘SiteVista / MailBuild’ solution would be a killer combo. API anyone?
Carson Summit Podcasts Feb 22. 060
If, like me you missed the Carson Workshops Future of Web Apps Summit you’ll be glad to know that the podcasts from the event are now live, and even better… free to download.
- Joshua Schachter (Delicious)
Delicious – Things we’ve learned
- David Heinemeier Hansson (37 Signals)
Happy Programming and Sustainable Productivity with Ruby on Rails
- Steffen Meschkat (Google)
Reality-Checking the AJAX Web Application Architecture
- Cal Henderson (Flickr)
From website to web application. Ten reasons to love Web 2.0
- Shaun Inman (Mint)
10 Reasons Why You Need to Build an API
- Ryan Carson (DropSend)
Building an enterprise web app on a budget – Inside story of DropSend
- Tom Coates (Yahoo!)
Designing Web 2.0-native Products for Fun and Profit
- Panel Discussion with all speakers + FeedBurner Discussion
The Future of Web Apps Summit Feb 16. 060
A little late I know, but since I was supposed to have been attending the Carson Workshops Future of Web Apps Summit, I thought that the least I could do in the absence of a personal viewpoint would be to provide a write up by proxy of a couple of mates who did make it. Still gutted.
Will you be at the Carson Summit? Jan 16. 0610
Like probably every other web designer out there @media 2006 is an event that I’d love to attend, however the registration fee of £395 (+VAT) really blows my chances out of the water.
First off I have to get any expenses past the financial controller wife, then following that I’d have to consider whether I’m really that desperate to blow upwards of £500 (once I factor in travel and beer) on a 2 day jolly in London. I guess it’s all a bit different if you’re working for an agency (like I used to) and you can get the expenses past the relevant person, but when you’re your own boss that figure really smarts.
Instead I’ve decided to book my place at one of the upcoming Carson Workshops; The Carson Summit – The Future of Web Apps. There’s a really exciting list of speakers including respected figures from Delicious, 37 Signals and Flickr to name just a few.
At just £75 (+VAT) it seems a bit of a steal if you ask me. If you’ve got your place reserved add your mugshot to the Carson Summit Flickr group and maybe I’ll see you there. :)