{"id":626,"date":"2006-12-13T09:55:18","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T14:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2006\/12\/13\/gmail-on-path-to-perfection\/"},"modified":"2006-12-13T09:58:53","modified_gmt":"2006-12-13T14:58:53","slug":"gmail-on-path-to-perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2006\/12\/13\/gmail-on-path-to-perfection\/","title":{"rendered":"GMail on Path to Perfection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Arrington thinks that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2006\/12\/09\/uh-oh-gmail-just-got-perfect\/\">Gmail Just Got Perfect<\/a> with its new <a href=\"http:\/\/mail.google.com\/support\/bin\/answer.py?ctx=%67mail&#038;hl=en&#038;answer=21288\">Mail Fetcher<\/a> feature.  Jackson West <a href=\"http:\/\/webworkerdaily.com\/2006\/12\/09\/gmail-still-isnt-perfect-even-with-mail-fetcher\/\">demurs to that notion<\/a>, citing almost-there and missing features that make Gmail fall somewhat shy of perfection. <\/p>\n<p>Either way, GMail continues to impress me.  I&#8217;ve been using it extensively over the past couple of weeks since I turned my main domain mail over to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/a\/\">Google Apps for Your Domain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve used Outlook Express (OE) as my mail client for a long time.  I&#8217;ve avoided the full Outlook client because it doesn&#8217;t give me access to raw messages for debugging, and well, OE gives me almost everything I need without any of the bloat and dreck.<\/p>\n<p>One of the (very few) drawbacks to avoiding Outlook is that OE doesn&#8217;t support the meeting invitations that people who use Outlook and Exchange send around.  I get a badly formatted text version of the invitation and have to manually respond.<\/p>\n<p>I got just such an invitation yesterday in my GMail inbox.  I responded manually, but later in the day I noticed that my Google Calendar had been populated with the meeting and upon opening the calendar slot, I was given a form to respond to the invitation.<\/p>\n<p>So, maybe GMail&#8217;s not yet perfect, but it&#8217;s really coming along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Arrington thinks that Gmail Just Got Perfect with its new Mail Fetcher feature. Jackson West demurs to that notion, citing almost-there and missing features that make Gmail fall somewhat shy of perfection. Either way, GMail continues to impress me. I&#8217;ve been using it extensively over the past couple of weeks since I turned my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}