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Want Gmail?

Babak Farrokhi — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:01:20 +0000

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

update: no more invitation for now.

Google Messenger

Babak Farrokhi — Fri, 21 May 2004 13:47:12 +0000

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.

Gmail usage

Babak Farrokhi — Sun, 02 May 2004 21:03:06 +0000

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.

New type of Email: Gmail

Babak Farrokhi — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 11:29:53 +0000

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.