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Official Gmail Blog: Choose which messages get downloaded for offline use
Wednesday, November 04, 2009 7:17 PM Posted by Maria Khomenko, Software Engineer Like an increasing number of people these days, I like to stay productive during my flights (even those without wifi access ). A long flight is a perfect opportunity to go through everything in my inbox and catch up ...
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Gmail Offline Mode Updated
Ubergizmo — ... Gmail is certainly becoming (if not already) the de facto webmail service on the Internet, but that doesn’t mean that folks don’t enjoy checking their email while offline. Gmail Labs introduced offline Gmail a while back, but it had one rather irritating trait: it doesn’t allow you to pick which emails to download/keep offline. Fortunately Gmail has announced an update that should help sort this out. The new feature allows you to choose which messages get downloaded, allowing you to filter what gets downloaded (or not). One more step forward for ...

Offline Gmail offers messages selection to download
D' Technology Weblog — ... Until now, Offline Gmail heuristically picked which messages get downloaded for offline use; From now on, once you enable Offline Gmail from Labs tab under Settings, you can choose which messages get downloaded. On Offline tab under Settings, you'll see your current settings and be able to set how much mail you want to download from each of your labels. When you hit save, Gmail’ll synchronize new messages you didn't have downloaded before and remove ones you're not planning to read from your hard drive. You can always change your settings ...

Choose How Much Offline Gmail You Want to Carry
jkOnTheRun — ... Google has now implemented a way to choose which mail you want to use offline with Gmail. Now you can tell Gears to only pull down mail from specific labels and from certain time periods. Only want your Inbox and two other labels from the past week? No problem. Once you have GMail setup for offline use, just hit the Offline tab in Settings to pick and choose. ...

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