Yahoo Email Import

A few years ago (2005 time frame), I wrote to the Gmail team asking for the ability to import email from other accounts via POP. That wish is finally coming true now.

I've been able to successfully import from Yahoo, without even enabling POP on Yahoo !! Yay !! Go Google, Go Gmail !

"Report Bug" in Gmail

I've recently noticed a "Report bug" (or was it "Submit bug") link in one gmail a/c of mine while I don't see this on another. Anyone knows if this too is being rolled out in the usual Gmail fashion of a few users at a time ?

I wonder what is it that they actually do to do this only in an incremental fashion for most of the features. Is it due to the way their basic system has been designed ? Or are they looking at manageability and/or other things before letting full junta get something new.

POP other accounts to Gmail

Back in Dec-2005, I'd written to Gmail support team with a request for enabling Gmail to access POP accounts with other email providers. Not only does it help consolidate my email accounts with Gmail (which may in itself be a good or bad thing depending on your POV), it will also help Gmail in providing more relevant ads for me.

The Gmail support team acknowledged that this was something they didn't then have and would pass it onto the appropriate team. Finally, today, I saw that Gmail announced this "feature" availability, beginning with their "usual" partial rollout process.

And, I'm one of those lucky few who has this feature enabled in the account already. Understandably, it's only a matter of time before everyone else gets it.

Wohoooo !!!!!!! Go Gmail !! Now, to figure out how much more of myself do I expose to Google :)