Google launches Dashboard, shows stalker level

Jacqueline DiOrio 6 Nov, 2009 at 11:14pm ET Article published in Tech

Comments

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   7 Nov 2009 ~ 1:53am chrisWhite Meh, Google knows so much more about me then what's shown there. I'm well aware of it and perfectly comfortable with it. Really though, whomever owns your email has access to pretty much everything most of the time, all your important websites and bank accounts have passwords reset through your email without any other authentication 75% of the time, I'm fine trusting them.
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   7 Nov 2009 ~ 11:00pm Harsh Agrawal Atleast I find it good..
   I dont remember how many Google services I have signedup and now I have a
   admin space from where I can see and control all my stuff associated with Google.
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   8 Nov 2009 ~ 9:12am drasnor I dislike their sent mail policy. I have access to three SMTP servers (we'll call them Small, Medium, and Large.) G-Mail is Large. Small and Medium will send messages from any of my e-mail accounts, that is, they don't replace the message headers with the information for the account I'm *supposed* to be using with that server. This is great because Small can only be used when I'm connected to work via VPN and though Medium can be used anywhere, it sometimes doesn't work at work due to draconian network security measures.
   
   But when I need to e-mail my boss huge files, it's time for Large. My message always shows up as having come from G-Mail and his replies go to my G-Mail address, breaking my e-mail threads. And the best part is, the e-mail I send from my other addresses gets copied to Sent Mail on my G-Mail account, forever to reside until Google decides they want to read it or I navigate their web interface and delete it.
   
   -drasnor
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   8 Nov 2009 ~ 10:52am chrisWhite Really Drasnor? I don't use gmail as my primary anymore (I use the address but it autoforwards) but I ran it for years with a couple of different email accounts tied to it including my work email and it did an awesome job of changing the headers every single time.
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   8 Nov 2009 ~ 2:35pm drasnor

   chrisWhite wrote:

   Really Drasnor? I don't use gmail as my primary anymore (I use the address but it autoforwards) but I ran it for years with a couple of different email accounts tied to it including my work email and it did an awesome job of changing the headers every single time.

   Really.
   
   -drasnor
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   8 Nov 2009 ~ 5:05pm ardichoke It all depends how you use it drasnor. If you set up your mail client to just use the gmail SMTP server it won't do what you are describing. What you're describing only happens if you add the account you are sending as to GMail and use the actual GMail account to send mail through the other account. Or at least that's the only way I've been able to reproduce those results.
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   8 Nov 2009 ~ 5:14pm drasnor This happens anytime I use the GMail SMTP server from my mail client (Thunderbird).
   
   -drasnor
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   8 Nov 2009 ~ 11:06pm chrisWhite Oooooh, okay, yes, when I was using Gmail I primarily used the web interface. I jumped ship for Mobile Me (what was .mac) for IMAP support two or three months before Google finally implemented it.
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