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I never thought before that I will be enjoying using Gmail as a mail application. That’s why I always download my gmail emails to my local computer. I do enjoy the possibility to read all my emails even if I were on the road, but it never as convenience as read one in Thunderbird.

But lately, with several enhancements to Gmail, I’m rethinking my decision. I’m traveling quite a lot these days and reading Gmail is becoming more pleasant experience than before. So let me summarize what I did lately.

Before, it’s not very easy to create a filter in Gmail, but this is dramatically changed. Now, creating a filter (especially for mailing list) is a snap! Nothing to type, just four clicks. I never found any mail desktop application that can do this better than Gmail. Not only that, they don’t use sender or message title for doing this, instead they use a hidden information about a mailing list that usually available in most mailing lists. The result is the filtering is better and more precise than before.

Since now I filter my message in Gmail, POP is just too complicated. I don’t want to create two filters in Gmail and another in my Thunderbird. So I change my Thunderbird setting to use IMAP. Now all folders are just mirror of the labels in Gmail. How convenience, huh?

And I never thought to forward my email to one single email before. Now since Gmail has increased its capacity and the filtering is so easy… and the spamming control is much better that GMX or Yahoo… well… it’s no brain for me to start forwarding all my POPs email to Gmail. There is still one enhancement that is not there probably. I really like to see Gmail automatically retrieves my Yahoo email.

Last enhancement by Gmail make it possible for me to give colors to labels. I can give a background to the label if the label is pretty important or just change the text if the label is not that important. My Gmail is now colorful and I like it!

Overall I’m very satisfied with what Gmail team done lately. Life won’t be so easy without it. Now please GIVE US BETTER AND FASTER BROWSER. Until that happens, my thunderbird will still busy downloading the messages every five minutes.