Ever “drunk e-mailed” an old flame, then regretted it the next morning? In what may be its most amusing feature yet, Google Labs has come up with a way to keep you from sending late-night, alcohol-induced messages that your more sober self would steer away from.
Gmail engineers call the program “Mail Goggles.” When [...]

Google has responded to the Gmail outage this afternoon (hereby known as the Great Gmail outage of 08) with a post to the Google blog stating that Google is both sorry about the downtime, and is addressing the issues:
We’ve identified the source of this issue and fixed it. In addition, as with all issues that [...]

Gmail is recovering from a fairly long-lasting partial fail.
Many users were locked out of their accounts for almost 15 full hours Wednesday night into early Thursday morning. InfoWorld first picked up on the story, finding the discussion forums full of frustrated users — many of them, evidently, paying Google Apps subscribers who rely on [...]

Following our release day editorial on Yahoo’s Zimbra Desktop, we thought we’d take a more in-depth look at the program and its features. The e-mail client, of course, is Zimbra’s first major effort since the company’s $350 million acquisition by Yahoo last year. As would be expected, it marks a clear step in [...]

Yahoo has a new plan to seemingly lure AOL and Gmail users into its service.
The company has released the beta version of Zimbra Desktop, an offline mail client marketed specifically to users of Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail, and Gmail. The utility offers POP and IMAP access as well as offline access to the iCal [...]

Google is teaming up with eBay and Paypal to help protect Gmail users from phishing scams.
The web-based mail service will now authenticate any e-mails coming from paypal.com or ebay.com. The move is an effort to combat the large number of spoofed messages that appear to originate from those domains. Now, any e-mails claiming [...]

Google’s turning a new eye to privacy — a topic high on many minds following its lost battle to protect YouTube users’ data this week.
The recently revamped “Privacy” section — now accesssible at the bottom of the Google homepage — takes you to a detailed listing of all of Google’s policies and procedures. You [...]

Google is evidently no longer using the name Gmail in Germany.
Philipp Lenssen discovered the interesting change over on his Google Blogoscoped site. Apparently, Lenssen says, navigating to gmail.com in Germany now results in a splashscreen message:
“We can’t provide service under the Gmail name in Germany; we’re called Google Mail here instead.
If you’re traveling [...]

Google has officially launched Gmail labs, a testing area of Gmail features.
The good news: despite a TechCrunch report suggesting that Gmail Labs was georetarded to the United States and United Kingdom, I’m seeing labs here in Australia.
Gmail labs offers a variety of optional extras, including layout tweaks, shortcuts and even a game titled “Old Snakey.” [...]

You may soon be able to customize your Gmail viewing experience without any third party programs.
Google Blogoscoped says Google’s engineers are working on a set of 12 themes for the Gmail web client to let you step out of the familiar blue and white territory. Right now, third party scripting utilities like Firefox add-on [...]

Google says reports of an “open relay” security hole in its Gmail interface are not factually correct, according to information obtained by The Inquisitr this afternoon.
The Information Security Research Team (INSERT) released a detailed study claiming spammers could “bypass” Gmail’s security protection systems and “be granted nearly unrestricted access to Google’s…SMTP relay infrastructure.” The [...]