Running out of storage on your Gmail account? If you are close to maxing out your free 7GB of storage, you can now upgrade your storage quota all the way up to 16TB. For most users 7GB is plenty, but if you’re a real power user (or surrounded by people who do not understand that you do not email 25MB Power Point-files), an upgrade to 20GB might be interesting, which is the default quota for Google Apps Premier.
Gmail now offers more storage (but not for free)
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November 12th, 2009
Gmail Marks New E-mails as “Read”
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November 5th, 2009
Over the past few days, a small subset of users may have been thinking that they were not receiving any new e-mails. No new e-mails were sitting in their inboxes, as all of their new e-mails had been marked as read. This led some users to believe (erroneously) that their accounts were hacked or broken into, and that people were reading their new e-mails.
Industry-wide Phishing Scheme
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October 6th, 2009
A rather lame phishing attempt.
Yesterday we reported that Microsoft Live/Hotmail was exposed to an extensive phishing scheme. Apparently the attack was more extensive than this. BBC News reports that a second list with 20,000 accounts was published. Contrary to the first list, the second list included accounts from AOL, Comcast, Earthlink, Gmail and Hotmail. With that information, we can conclude that this is an industry-wide attack, rather than an attack on a particular provider.
Phishing attacks by themselves are nothing new, but this is probably one of the biggest attacks that I have ever heard of.
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Zimbra Desktop: Outlook killer or bloatware?
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October 4th, 2009
Viewing emails in Zimbra Desktop
Zimbra Desktop is Zimbra’s answer to Microsoft’s Outlook. Contrary to what one would expect, Zimbra Desktop does not require a Zimbra server. It is simply a stand-alone desktop email client that works on all major platforms (Linux/Mac/Windows).
Zimbra Desktop comes with all the bells and whistles one would expect from an modern Personal Information Manager (PIM), such as POP3/IMAP support, contacts and calendar. In addition to these features, Zimbra Desktop also supports contacts and calendar synchronization with both Yahoo! Mail and Gmail. As far as features goes, it comes close to Outlook. At a low price of $0, could it be a potential Outlook killer?
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Gmail Offers iPhone Push Service
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September 29th, 2009
Imagine this scenario: your boss sends an e-mail, and he needs a “yes” or “no” answer immediately. If you use a Gmail or Google Apps account with your iPhone, the e-mail won’t drop into your iPhone inbox immediately, even if you use IMAP to sync your e-mail. This has caused many users to devise workarounds and “hacks” to set up push-like technology on their iPhones (Push e-mail means that whenever an e-mail is sent to a Gmail account, it is instantly sent to the mobile device. This is in contrast to the usual method of downloading Gmail e-mail messages to iPhones, which is based on a refresh rate.). In late September however, Google heard the cries of Gmail/iPhone users without push e-mail and delivered with Google Sync.
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Bank emails wrong person, sues
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September 25th, 2009
Photo by Flickr user dbking
It has probably happened to all of us: you click send and that sinking feeling that you just made a mistake hits. You sent the email to the wrong person. Imagine what that might be like if your email contained complete personal information and economic details for over 1,300 of your clients.
In an oddly backwards case of the wrongdoer suing the victim, a Wyoming bank emailed sensitive account information to the wrong Gmail account last month. The mistake was discovered and the bank sent two followup emails ordering the recipient to immediately delete the previous email – without opening it.
Although it’s not clear what the recipient could have replied to convince the bank they really never opened the email, the mystery email account did not reply at all. The bank turned to Google, asking them to reveal information about the account. Google refused in accordance to their privacy policy and the bank responded by suing. At the time of this writing a judge has ordered Google to deactivate the account and reveal information about its owner.
Google has stated it will give the account holder a chance to respond to the court’s request before turning over the information.
Google Gmail Suffers Slowdowns, Degraded Service
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September 24th, 2009
For the second time in a month, Google’s email service Gmail has suffered from technical difficulties. The Google Apps Status page reported:
We’re aware of a problem with Google Mail affecting a small subset of users. The affected users are unable to access Google Mail, but we’ve provided a workaround below.
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You can access Gmail via IMAP