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Find Big Mail

Find Big Mail scans your Gmail, labelling the large ones so you can reclaim some space.

OfflineIMAP

OfflineImap operates on a REMOTE and a LOCAL repository and synchronizes emails between them, so that you can read the same mailbox from multiple computers. The REMOTE repository is some IMAP server, while LOCAL can be either a local Maildir or another IMAP server.

I linked to offlineimap last year, but since then it’s improved a great deal—it’s faster, thanks in part to a new SQLite backend, and much more stable—so I thought I’d give it another plug.

Here’s the ~/.offlineimaprc I use to sync with/backup my Gmail account:

[general]
metadata = ~/.local/share/offlineimap
accounts = GMail
maxsyncaccounts = 1
ignore-readonly = no

[Account GMail]
localrepository = Local
remoterepository = Remote
status_backend = sqlite

[Repository Local]
type = Maildir
localfolders = ~/mail

[Repository Remote]
type = Gmail
remotehost = imap.gmail.com
remoteuser = your.email@gmail.com
remotepass = yourpassword
ssl = yes
maxconnections = 2
realdelete = no
folderfilter = lambda foldername: foldername not in ['[Google Mail]/Spam', '[Google Mail]/Bin']

NB: Gmail’s folder names differ in different countries, so you might need to edit the last line, and perhaps add some more folders to exclude (eg. ‘All Mail’).

CheckGmail

CheckGmail is an alternative Gmail Notifier for Linux and other *nix systems. It is fast, secure and uses minimal bandwidth via the use of Atom feeds.

Midway between a notifier and a minimal mail client.

vmail is a Vim interface to Gmail

A wonderful one, at that. Setup is simple—a three line config file is all you need—and it makes blazing through lots of mail a cinch, assuming you already know your way around vim. The only downside I can spot is the viewing and sending of attachments, which is a bit fiddly.

Purists will no doubt be muttering ‘Emacs!’ under their breath, but I can see a lot of mutt and sup users switching to vmail.

Via HN

vmail is a Vim interface to Gmail

A wonderful one, at that. Setup is simple—a three line config file is all you need—and it makes blazing through lots of mail a cinch, assuming you already know your way around vim. The only downside I can spot is the viewing and sending of attachments, which is a bit fiddly.

Purists will no doubt be muttering ‘Emacs!’ under their breath, but I can see a lot of mutt and sup users switching to vmail.

Via HN

sparrowmail:

Sparrow Beta 5

Labels! Here they are!

Thanks for your patience.

A welcome update to Sparrow, the lean Gmail client—I’m really looking forward to 1.0.

Priority Inbox

Google is rolling out a new filtered view of your Gmail inbox—‘important & unread’ messages will float to the top, above starred messages, with ‘everything else’ at the bottom.

Early reviews suggest it works well, and works with your existing filters.

As far as I can tell, though, Priority Inbox only works if you use Gmail’s web interface, rather than, eg. adding a new IMAP folder for the important stuff, leaving those of us who like to download our mail and read it in a client out in the cold.

CheckGmail

CheckGmail is an alternative Gmail Notifier for Linux and other *nix systems. It is fast, secure and uses minimal bandwidth.

Notify

If you access your email in a browser, you’ll love Notify. It fits seamlessly into your menubar, only vying for your attention when you have new mail. Notify supports mutliple accounts, including Gmail/Google Apps, MobileMe, and Rackspace Email.

You can also read, send, reply to and delete email from inside Notify, which makes me wonder where the line between ‘notifier’ and ‘full blown client’ is drawn.

Mailboxes

Mailboxes is a multi-user Gmail client for the iPad, letting you easily and securely access your Gmail and Google Apps email accounts on a shared iPad.

Simply enter your Gmail account details and an optional 4-digit passcode. Then when you want to access your Gmail account, you’ll get prompted for your passcode if you entered one, and then logged into the familiar Gmail web interface.

How to use the fast and powerful Mutt email client with Gmail

A piece I wrote for Lifehacker, complete with a ready-to-use config file loaded with Gmail-style keyboard shortcuts, so you can be up and running in five minutes.