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If you have no gmail yet and looking for someone to invite you, please drop me a line.

update: no more invitation for now.

It’s not too hard to predict next google service: Google Messenger

Maybe it’s just an idea, but even the idea is very cool. And if it ever happens:

• It will use Orkut for registration and will utilize your Orkut friends list as your contact list.
• It can also be used as a Google search representative on your desktop. So you can search in google without opening up a browser windows.
• It can search on your hard disk content, a local search engine.
• And also a desktop notify tool for your Gmail.

What do you think? Anyone has other ideas?

And remember, you heard it here first.

You know all those privacy problems and conspiracy theories about Gmail. Thanks to hamid, I’ve got one. And I am using it the best possible way.

You don’t like to use it for your sensitive data or personal/work email? Its excellent for subscribing mailing lists. Though you can not create folders but you can tag your mails based on subject ro TO/FROM address. So you can label mails from different mailing list and categorize them using label. And thats all.

I moved my high volume subscriptions to gmail which includes freebsd-current, freebsd-tinderbox, freebsd-fs, freebsd-hackers, freebsd-isp, sunmanagers and postfix-users.

I love Gmail.

I’m not going to tell you the story of new title="gmail.com">Google Mail service again, since you’ve
all heard of it already.

But today I noticed that their website is accepting logins at gmail.com. And
their mail servers are also up and running:

[root@hpc:~]# host -t MX gmail.com
gmail.com mail is handled (pri=10) by gsmtp57.google.com
gmail.com mail is handled (pri=20) by gsmtp51.google.com

[root@hpc:~]# telnet gsmtp57.google.com 25
Trying 216.239.57.27...
Connected to gsmtp57.google.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mx.gmail.com ESMTP
quit
221 mx.gmail.com closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.

I didn’t test it thoroughly but I don’t know why I feel they are running
Postfix. (or maby I am wrong). I don’t know anyone who has got one of those
gmails yet, but I am really interested in getting one.