Ack. Sorry for the double post.

Bubarubu

@shvidky: Usually I like the conversation view. What I would like is a way to view my own replies as threaded somehow. Here's what happens: I email one of my classes (45) students. They all reply and all of their replies go into the same conversation. This I like. I will sometimes read one of those emails and decide I need to wait to respond to it. When I go back into the conversation, there are new replies from other students and the older messages are not expanded, so I forget to respond to those. This is not nice. This leads to confused or angry students. Essentially, I want to be better able to link my responses to emails in the conversation rather than just have the entire thing in chronological order.

Bubarubu

Yes, a way to be able to turn conversation mode off would be my number one wish.

Thor

@shvidky: Usually I like the conversation view, but I would like to see my replies threaded with incoming messages rather than just as more messages in the conversation. Specific application: I send an email to one of my classes (45 students). They reply, which means I get one long conversation with all of their replies. This is nice. If I read one of their emails and decide I need to reply later, and then more student replies come in, then the stuff I've already read isn't expanded when I go back into the conversation, and I forget about the emails I needed to reply to. This leads to confusion later, and this is not nice.

Bubarubu

I would **love** a 'scheduled send' feature. Just because I may get a lot of heavy work done between midnight and 3am, doesn't mean I want my clients to know I'm working at 2am. I think Outlook does this and there's a plug-in for Thunderbird to do this, but I'd love for it to be native to Gmail.

Daniel Genser

@pand0ra: yes! either pgp or S/MIME, or both! it's 2008, there's no need to be emailing in plain text!

natenovs

Folders. I know, I know, but I like my folders.

Git Em SteveDave

-A means of creating a simple table in emails. I may be missing something obvious that already exists, but I'd find this useful.

-a button to filter/show unread (particularly in inbox, but also other tags)

-a means to filter/show "selected" messages, particularly when selected are spread out over several pages of messages

-@combat chuck- agree with embedded images

Agree with all that Gmail is the best thing going already.

lausley

Am I the only one who does not like that GMail stores all email with the same subject together? There should be a setting to allow emails come in order they were received and not group them together.

shvidky

One thing I would like to see is a PGP implementation where I can request a key and be able to digitally sign messages and encrypt them as well, within the web interface.

pand0ra

I'd like it if I could make "time-active" filters for email addresses, so I could have a message (like a facebook or netflix notification) appear in my inbox for a day or so, then automatically mark itself as read and file itself in a folder and out of sight.

I'd also love it if you could send messages of ridiculously large sizes so you could really use Gmail as an online drop site to rival Drop.io and others.

I love the fact that Gmail has added AOL chat to its client but there is a space in the market for a mega multi chat client that goes beyond Meebo and Adium, providing support for a large majority of the popular chat clients.

farmerfresh

I have to say I swear-by GMail now-a-days, but the one feature I would LOVE to have is a simple button that, when clicked, showed just the archived mail. Having to go through all of the steps via "All Mail" or searching for it manually is a real pain in the arse!

IanRobinett

I am racking my brain, and can't really come up with anything, other than full syncing of my contacts. I've got Gmail set up via IMAP on 3 machines using Outlook and a WinMobile device, and ActiveSync only allows sinking between two locations.

I guess I just don't like straight web-based email, or too much of an Outlook-whore.

Norcross

I would like to embed pictures in my messages. I can do it in Thunderbird with IMAP, but would like to be able to do it from the web client.

combat chuck

Address book sync and better contact mgmt, both +1

It_Figures

How about a way to turn off the "All Mail" and "[Gmail]" folders when using IMAP. They make sense in the web interface, but I don't need them in Mail.app.

Aubin

better mobile interface!

Djlethal01

I second address book synchronization. For me it would be especially useful if I could sync it with my jailbroken iPod touch.

dimatx

I would love it if a single filter could apply multiple labels. I can do that in Mail.app with MailTags, shouldn't be hard to do in GMail.

Another nicety would be the ability to display the list of labels as a tag cloud, or at least the ability to sort them by frequency of use.

It_Figures

A better address book. Well, one that syncs with the Address Book application on OS X, at least.

Deprong Mori

I've been told by an employee that they know people want a contact management system and it's been suggested interally to death. Whether or not they are working on it? I don't know. I think that's my biggest pet peeve about Gmail, otherwise I'm happy with it.

SabrinaFaire

An option to 'turn-off' threaded messaging. I simply hate how gmail chose to implement it.

Native HTML signatures.

Easier/better filter options.

Better mobile UI

Drag+Drop

Ability to send attachments that do not have to be zipped (.dll or .EXE anyone?) This is pain in the arse for code monkeys.

toddkravos

@4ster: Yes! The "On behalf of" crap stinks!

Gina Trapani

I'd love to be able to set the default font and font color. And also to be able to use html signatures natively.

JayCaldwell

I'm surprised this hasn't already been mentioned, but I'd love to see them get rid of that "On Behalf of" tag when your change your reply-to address. This alone is why I only use Gmail as a backup for my e-mail and not as my primary e-mail.

4ster

I'd like:

1. Better Contacts (like everyone else)
2. Sig Management
3. Drag and Drop files to attach...is this already in place?
4. A new car

huntsterUNC

Signature Management.

You can send email from multiple email accounts within gmail, but there is only one signature. I would like to have multilple signatures, and also be able to "clic choose" directly in the compose window which signature to apply to a specific email.

Right now you can only enable or disable one signature in the settings section. Not very convenient.

PC_Pal68

This option to "Get mail from other accounts:" sounds great, but it's useless to me as my other account doesn't provide POP3 access. So if they can enable IMAP for this feature, it'd be awesome.

bmearns

Maybe I'm just missing something obvious here, but I can't figure out why there's no way to re-order the inbox based on, say, read/unread status.
I guess that's more or less the same thing as @lausley's request for a filter/show unread feature.

Also, I like folders and hate the archive issue, too (@IanRobinett).

celcinc

IMAGES. For god's sake, it's the 21st century. How hard is it to add support for images into the email editor?

That's the most basic thing they're missing. Sure there's those other fancy things that would be nice to have. But come on! Inline images! What is this, the days of sendmail?

The_Souljourner

I would love to see my group contacts on gmail mobile.

jbinbpt

This is hardly a feature, but the only reason I still use ui=1 for Gmail is because in ui=2, when resizing the window, the relative sizing doesn't update fluidly - it updates after releasing the mouse. It feels sluggish to me and I hate sluggish and it's worth keeping the old UI just to avoid it.

Am I the only one to notice this?

kvandekrol

I would love to be able to run a search and choose to display the oldest results first.

Mr. Poon

I want to be able to block senders en masse. i.e. select all emails in Spam, then block all those senders in the future. Seems simple to me, and obvious, and something I've asked for before either on here or somewhere else. Here's to hopin *cheers

Jason

I want to disable the "auto-add recipients to the contact list". I have to clean out a lot of craigslist emails.

Alex

- HTML in the sig (I know it can be done with an add-on, but the add-on never works consistently for me, or breaks with other add-ons)

- Folders. Yes, the labels are great, but I am a folder gal and I need folders.

- Photo insertion! I would love to be able to insert a photo rather than upload and attach.

- Custom font choices.

wickedcupofjoe

I wish I could easily sync my labels in Outlook 2007 with Gmail and visa versa. I would love to be able to label my personal emails on Gmail's web interface while i'm at work, and come home to find them synced/already labeled in Outlook.

ckathens

Here is my top ten list:

1. Better Contact Management
2. Better Contact Management
3. Better Contact Management
4. Better Contact Management
5. Better Contact Management

6. The ability to sync apps accounts (contacts and calendars) with my mobile phone like regular gmail. Am I missing something on this?
7. Filtering incoming messages by sender or other category.
8. Integrate with other chat clients like MSN and Skype and do video calling.
9. The ability to paste inline "print screen" instead of as an attachment.
10. Ability to turn on/off conversation mode.

rookcnu

I'd love to be able to turn-off the SPAM filter. I have a system with Thunderbird that works great, for me, and I'd prefer that approach to Gmail's.

codehead

I wish that google would come up with a gmail desktop client. imap just doesn't work for me, because it lacks one critical feature-conversations.

koalasthewise

I would like to see a one-click backup that allows me to backup/archive my account to my hard drive. I know there are solutions by routing it to thunderbird once and a while, but it does not carry with it all of my labels and organization systems. (I have a 150+ labels)

Maybe what I'm suggesting is a google desktop mail?

Also... integrate the ideas from Better Gmail 2! I love it, but I hate having to keep up with version shifts as BG2 and gmail keep updating their interfaces.

And my dream would be tabs for each of the accounts I manage in gmail, so that on my gmail page, I have different tabs across the top that allows me to see the inbox count, and I can switch between accounts with a keyboard shortcut.

YES!

aldolan

I would also like to see image editing, but the main feature that I would like to see and maybe it's already there, but I am not sure so if it is someone please let me know, but when I am on my iPhone and I recieve an email from one of my other pop accounts I have setup I would like to be able to send it through that email address. I have it setup for when I am online using the gmail webpage but I don't think it works doing that from my iphone.

MMoses

Comment on Your Gmail Feature Wishlist? I'm not into all the lingo above. I just want simple fixes (besides the atrocious contacts section!). I have a large group of people that email each other daily. I would like to keep some emails in a specific conversation and delete others. Why do they have to have a drop down menu for all these commands? Why can't they have a nice little X to delete an email and then go on to the next one. I know they have lots-o-quick commands, but I haven't yet committed them to memory. I have other issues, but can't think of them this second. Of course, the minute I send this email I will think of one.

ZahidThersites

I'd like to see the ability to set the timetable on when your other accounts are checked rather than going through the settings to manually check.

ZitaAgave

My suggestions are mostly more of the same:

Better contacts management/interface (I should be able to open a pop-up window when composing an e-mail that allows me to select contacts from my Contacts list, rather than rely on AutoComplete to have them all there already, as they often are not). Are there no add-ons out there that help address this??

The option to create new folders. Labels are cool but sometimes I just want it in another separate folder, not in Inbox or All Mail.

I agree with IanRobinett, a separate folder that just has all my Archived mail would be great, rather than having to sort through the huge AllMail folder. If an Archive label was simply attached to all archived mail that would also help.

Better integration with GCal. It's nice that sometimes GMail can see that I've been invited to something and creates a little side-bar actionable to add that event to GCal. But it often misses the events, esp. in forwarded mails. Having context-sensitive abilities a la Apple .Mail that allow me to add items to GCal would be great.
Also, when I have GMail open I don't see to get the pop-up reminders that I have set in GCal. Does GCal have to always be open in a separate tab to receive these? That is annoying.

I LOVE the conversations view, but some more options for it would be great. I'd like to be able to see all the headers for all the messages (or at least the 5 most recent messages) displayed at the top, as opposed to just the last 2. I know you can expand the list but it's an extra step I could do without. More customization options for GMail's views, sorting, etc. would be great.

Finally, a log of the recent actions I've taken in GMail would be really powerful, but is probably too much to ask. It's great that I can Undo my last action, like moving a message to the trash Bin. But sometimes I accidentally Trash or otherwise move more than one mail to the wrong place, and then I have to go digging through my folders, or hope I remember the fields well enough to search for it. A log that tracks what I've done with recent mails would be really cool.

Oh, and I agree with Alex about disabling the auto-contacts adding. It would be fine it GMail stuck all these auto-added Contacts in a separate Contacts list, but don't just automatically add them to my main Contacts please.

Sprockets

Another vote for OSX Address Book Syncing

Eschguy

Be able to delete or mark a message read from the Google-Talk New message notifier.

When a new message notification pops up, and its something you don't want, it's annoying to have to log on just to delete a message.

slingshotmike

Not really a feature, per se, but I don't see why I have to delete 40+ e-mails per day from the spam folder when gmail has pretty much 100% accuracy (in my case, anyway). How about an option, risky though it may be, to just keep that folder empty (i.e., auto-delete)?

I did come across a hack for this today, but a built-in option would be nice.

DJRRJr.

@4ster:n "On Behalf of"

Woops - this should be in my top ten list as well as well.

Maybe take out my number 2 and put this in. :)

rookcnu

Oh, one more: the ability to edit subject lines of e-mails I've already received.

And the multiple signatures option is a great idea!

Sprockets

1. User-definable "canned" messages and replies in the mobile app. Anything that cuts down the the typing on my phone would be appreciated.

2. With the properly crafted URL, I can open a browser window to compose a new message, with the recipient, subject, and body filled in. I would love to be able to specify attachments in the URL as well.

3. Add a zoomable, panable WYSIWYG attachment viewer to the mobile app, that not only supports images, but bitmap representations of PDF and DOC files.

4. Outgoing message filters

5. The ability to temporarily archive messages (i.e. keep it for 45 days and then delete it automatically)

6. Better (or should I say any) support for Opera

MyTQuinn

1. The ability to declare "All Mail" bankruptcy - a simple button that will allow me to delete all my mail without losing my email address - this way I can start fresh using my tags and filters without having to go through 20-30 messages at a time to review.

2. More colors for tags - some of them are difficult to distinguish from one another.

GA TechWriter

Regular expressions in search.
Regular expressions in search.
Regular expressions in search.

Did I mention RegEx in search?

I use this *all the time* in Eudora (yeah I know, welcome to the 19th century) and I would love to see it in gmail.

I know it puts a bit of a load on the server, but those propeller heads ought to be able to hand-craft an extremely powerful & fast regex automata.

P.S. If the term "regular expressions" doesn't mean anything to you, don't worry, it's just a way of giving you flexibility when searching for certain strings with degrees of flexibility/freedom that a plaintext search doesn't allow.

BrianH

Yes, message size display - in order to search by size.

amrich

I wish Google would do more for kids. My daughter thinks Google is "the internet" but I can't let her use it unsupervised. Seems like Google could easily roll out a kid friendly version similar to Yahoo along with a parent friendly Gmail - somehow tie their acct to mine.

In regards to Gmail features: add a label to the "remember me" checkbox so I can click the text!

Jim

1) Better Contacts Manager... like everyone else.

2) Multiple Signatures.

3) The ability to mark "urgent" messages and send notices when e-mails were open. Honestly, I know I can do this in Thunderbird, but I rather just do this in Gmail as well.

4) Of course, Google Gears enabled.

5) the ability to sync contacts.

6) Make me breakfast. (A guy can dream, can he?)

Nu Digi

Filter to "Mark all Spam as Read".

Epoxy

not sure if relates to GMAIL, but an option to remove the damn "Search Public Calendar."

drsphincter

@amalas: Exactly. I work for a small office, who provides me with POP mail and a tiny mailbox, so I have to forward it somewhere. Right now, I have to use Embarq's horrid email, but would switch to Google in a heartbeat if they would change this one thing. I'm already using Gcal and Google's wonderful Blackberry sync application, but I'm with you. The on behalf of just looks unprofessional and defeats the purpose of mapping different addresses.

4ster

@huntsterUNC:@toddkravos: Yeah, it's an add-on, but dragdropupload for FF makes it possible and works all over the place. I've been using it for a long while and it works flawlessly for me, both in and out of Gmail.

and +1 to everyone about "on behalf of." I'd forgotten that one.

Bubarubu

Folders. I want them so much. :(

Geoff

I agree with a lot of people on the need for a better Contacts manager. While its a great improvement over the previous version, its still lacking some basic features. I also would like to use my groups in my filters since my group doesn't change only the individuals do. I also would like for it to somehow know that i also am signed on with the google talk app and not to steal the chats from the application. I would also like to be able to search for all unlabeled emails.

jkworth

@ZitaAgave: I completely agree about multiple signatures. I ended up using Texter to handle my different sigs.

@4ster: Yes! I hate the "on behalf of". I have an official-looking email I only use for resumes and such, but since I don't use it much, I have it mapped to send to my main address. However, I don't want to have to log out of my main, then log back in as the official address just to get rid of the "on behalf of". I thought that was the whole point of mapping different addresses so you could have a one-stop-shop.

Amalas

I want to be able to sort by sender - everyone says that search eliminates the need, but I can come up with a number of reasons, #1 to be able to quickly parse the spam folder for false positives.

Also, I second adding inline images to mail composing.

alittle

@rookcnu: Yes, I meant the ability to edit the subject line of e-mails in my Inbox or AllMail, etc. I get a LOT of e-mails (especially from my boss!) with irrelevant or obsolete subject lines which makes it hard to go back and find the e-mails I want later on.

I don't think a lot of desktop e-mail clients even offer this ability. I know Eudora did back in the 90s...

Sprockets

@PC_Pal68: there is a greasemonkey script to handle signatures for each email address you have (with HTML)

[userscripts.org]

sirfice

@Bubarubu: I think this is what you're looking for. I'm sorry if I misread your post.

As you're reading the messages, star the ones you need to go back to. When you go back to the conversation, the starred messages will already be expanded.

rnkoneil

Better integration with apps like iCal and the Mac Address Book. Ability for iCal to push calendar events up to the Google Calendar. Synchronization between the Mac Address Book and the GMail Address Book.

Epoxy

It'd be great if you could have GMail *NOT* add the "Forwarded-For" header when sending from an email address that isn't the primary.

Epoxy

Although not necessarily a "feature", I would like to see a general re-design of the interface. To be honest, I don't use Gmail that often (I use Thunderbird), but when I do I find it unfriendly.

The cool features like tagging and archiving are easy to use and work great, but basic features like replying to a message and creating a new message are tiny links that can be hard to find for casual users.

Gmail has just such a different design from all other email clients (especially desktop ones) that I think casual users like me find it inconvenient.

nlongtin

Offer Bulk-Email uploads for "free" accounts. Currently the "gmail bulk uploader" only works well if you have a paid for gmail account.

Epoxy

@Sprockets: do you mean you want to edit the subject line of e-mails you have received when you reply to them or just because you want to change subject for easier searching later? Because you can edit the subject on reply, but that might not be what you are looking for.

Sorry - but I have to add another item to my wish list - the ability to delete more than 20 contacts at a time in the contacts list. Especially since my contact list grows daily with crap contacts that I never wanted in the first place.

rookcnu

SYNC SYNC SYNC!!!!

I have a PC, MAC, Blackberry, Novell (at work)...I just want to sync address book, calendar, etc. I hate having to use third-party such as plaxo.com, dontforgetthemilk.com, etc just to sync.

Don't get me wrong, GMAIL is awesome but sync is one of the features that is needed the most!

BPorche

Anyone on here actually work for Google? I'm just curious to know if the Gmail developers might be pointed to this nice wish list...

Jim

GA TechWriter

As everyone else has already pointed out, BETTER CONTACT MANAGEMENT.

I would also be nice to have calendar, to-do list integrated - and not have to use an extension like "don't forget the milk" since we all like to save time/clicks/and typing this would get rid of having to sing in to gmail, then to DFTM. More like an email client!

Change the links to calendar, documents, etc to actual buttons.

Get rid of the "BETA" I know that they are still working on things but I think the majority of us are pretty happy with what they are offering so far :)

antonio

Things I'd like from my beloved Gmail account:
• Ability to order your label's however the hell you want, not just alphabetical
• Filters that can add as many labels as you damn well please
• Multi-file attachment for when you wanna send a bunch of pictures, but they dont need to be uploaded to a picture site
• Ability to attach larger files. Sure it might be slow, but I wanna send my 45Mb movie without using goddamn a third party site
• Ability to move/reorder your chat windows
• Custom Skins! ex: [mistercow-pnoy.deviantart.com]

MisterCow.Pnoy

1. Delete only the attachments from an email. Even though the mailbox is large, it's still not large enough.
2. Specify filters based on the size of the message.
3. Sort the mail based on the message size.

grebulon

I want to be able to have more than one user logged in to their Gmail/Google accounts at the same time. i.e. two Gmail accounts open each in their own tab in my browser.

jdoree

@4ster: the "on behalf of" crap ISN'T gmail's fault, it's how microsoft is using headers for the from field. Gmail is not to blame. not that that fixes it, but don't put the blame on google.

sirfice

Comment on Your Gmail Feature Wishlist? The ability to select tags in a batch! I have hundreds of tags, and every email gets at least two. To be able to select multiple tags at once would be awesome for my workflow.

KaliBrutus

Threading that correctly deals with emails from Google's own Groups application. I can't (okay, I'd rather not) count the number of broken threads in my inbox because there is a mix of web-based groups users and email clients involved. Why should these two apps be unable to work together correctly??

shadestalker

a second level of archive that keeps labels intact.

Using gmail for my business each client project has its own label. As more and more projects get added the labels list becomes very cumbersome. I would love the ability to do a second level of archiving where the label is no longer an "active". This would streamline my labels but also let me access older project emails if necessary.

blackbones

I would like to see better contact management overall. I think if they could allow you to import a list of contacts from an application, say Outlook, and even perform a 2-way sync of this information, it would really get many users on board and help them consolidate their accounts into Gmail.

Gmail w/ IMAP is wonderful, but when you are out and about and only have web or mobile access and can't pull up your contacts [well], or you are lacking information between the service and your PC applications, you'll agree with me.

sw4383

There are two things that I think would make GMail complete.
1. A better contacts set up. For an email program so top notch in so many other areas this is a glaring error in my opinion. Doesn't stop me from using GMail, but it means I must leave Mother Google to deal with my contacts. Considering Mother Google doesn't like you to leave it doesn't make sense why they are so off here.
2. HTML signatures. If I can send an HTML email why can I not have an HTML signature? What's the trouble here Google, why you holding me down?

jonsigler

I would love to be able to send deferred messages.

e.g I write the message today, and have it be sent out tomorrow.

Sort of like their April Fools Day joke in reverse.

acorella

Comment on Your your-gmail-feature-wishlist post video calling, video emails a task, or a things to do bar better integration with calendar and docs

SawiniNycteus

FOLDERS

gkdave

i would love to be able to add or subtract mails from a conversation

matei23

FOLDERS FOLDERS FOLDERS FOLDERS FOLDERS

or are there already and I can't find them??? love gmail...

gkdave

a mark as read button.

oh, and better contact management, really bothers me that there isn't a way to merge contacts together when someone has multiple emails

ebez

I think a more robust filter system would be pretty cool. One that was basically a small scripting language. You'd be able to apply a heuristic rule set just like it does on Spam to anything, you could have stuff automatically labeled as a Transaction or something by meeting a certain amount of criteria, like having a message meet a certain amount of keywords like "visa" "shipping address" and stuff like that.

parolax

More control over SPAM in general.
- White List/Black List
- Block By Domain

I hate having to set filters up for things like that.

Better support for global CSS in e-mail. They strip out a few too many things for my tastes.

Address Book sync

Better contact management in the interface

Larger file storage (replace thing's like yousendit)

echovein

1. A contacts manager popup next to the To: field like Outlook.

2. A signature selector (work, personal).

3. A "Reply with Lemonparty" button. :) Don't go there, TRUST ME.

the_Sleepwalker

Simple for me: when I delete an email, I want it to go to the next email and not back to inbox.

pdfetc

Some of these feature requests seem like they would be unreasonable for a web-based email service. One of the advantages GMail has over others is its simplicity.

I'll put my vote up for better contact management and the ability to digitally sign emails (PGP or S/MIME).

Contact sync would be great. The fact that uploading a csv export of your address book actually updates your contacts in gmail instead of replacing or doubling them is a nice middle ground solution for now though.

I would like some way to filter out the "added by reply" contacts. Maybe just a separate folder for them? I like that it remembers for me (like Outlook and Mail.app does) but I'd still like a little more control. At least in Outlook I can delete them directly from the autocomplete.

Insomnic

I'm waiting for an invite to the zenbe beta, then I'll let you know if I really need extra stuff. PEACE

aidan_cage

How has no one mentioned a "to-me-only" option in filters?? It's so obnoxious that I can't do this.

bitterrotten

Add contacts automatically from pop emails.

Reason: I love gmail's feature to send vacation auto-replies only to people in my contacts. BUT, I use gmail with pop, and it doesn't automatically add recipients to my contacts when I use outlook. So nobody gets my vacation notice, unless I've emailed them from the web.

person_x

1.)Spam control. If you don't like the message it, flag it as spam and then the next time that sender sends you email, it gets deleted automatically. Maybe a control panel of all emails filtered + search options for such spam.

2.)Folders! I prefer the folders instead of Labels. Sure its alright, but after awhile it just becomes annoying.

Thats all for me.

ma5t3rw1tt

Sort on various field. Cleaning up the archive is a nightmare with the current interface. Using IMAP and Outlook it's okay, though.

Mark Bigelow

Oh, and:

1) ability to search for attachments over a certain size (to delete the monsters). Think about it Google: combined with the ability to delete attachments, instead of spending resources increasing server space this simple ability would allow users to delete gigs of crap.

2) Personally I could use a more emphatic notification when new emails in the same conversation arrive. How many gmail users fail to notice the nth reply signaled only by the bold subject line? Maybe a different color for new replies in a conversation you've already opened and/or a little pop-up like outlook.

person_x

I love Gmail but I too get frustrated with simple things it doesn't offer such as sorting your e-mail. I want older messages on top and newer ones at the bottom...can't do that with Gmail.

Asesino

1. The ability to select different signatures: work/personal

2. Rich text formatting for the signature. (How is this NOT possible already? Seriously?!)

3. The ability to set a default font OTHER than their default (like Trebuchet, for example)

4. Be able to set up ONE filter to apply multiple labels. I don't want to have to set up three filters to apply three labels to one command.

5. Scheduled sending, where the time stamp is the schedule time. Useful for regularly sent (weekly, monthly) emails and writing late at night but want to send first thing in the morning.

xgravity23

"same time"

You can be logged into a Google Apps for Your Domain account and a regular Google Account at the same time, and I believe if you have multiple "Domain" accounts you can be logged into them as well.

I like Google Apps for Your Domain, as it allows me to actually use my name as a domain and make my address really personal, but I think they really did have small business and corporations in mind with this, and not the "with it" consumer that wanted to future-proof their e-mail.

sw4383

@combat chuck:

There's a way around to get the same embedded image effect.
i.Open up two Firefox browsers.
i.In one compose your email and in the other one, view the JPG directly you want to embed.
i.Grab the image and drag it onto the other browser and release it into the Gmail email.
i.It will embed directly.

TunaFish

1. Integrated task manager (turn a message into a task; organize tasks by priority and context; set start date/due date for tasks)
2. The ability to automatically label bulk mail.

Herb Caudill

HTML signatures (without the assistance of scripts from others (like the good folks @ Lifehacker)).

The support for HTML signatures is only working for Better Gmail 1. It feels like we are going backwards with Gmail. The support only allows a short signature too. I need to have a longer signature as I need to include a disclaimer protecting my intellectual property rights, etc. as a design professional...

eroq

Filter based on time of day. Like, forward all mail that comes to my work address after 6pm to my cell phone.

brandon

@antonio: you can get that feature by downloading the official google notifier for windows and mac.. not sure about linux

DT

someday i hope i can embed video. you'd think gmail could at least do it with youtube, no?

the chief

everything I want is available from userscripts.org, api stuff like remember the milk, or bettergmail... it would be nice to have a quick switch tab for multiple email addresses.. multiple accounts with multiple labels and contacts.... basically, a one stop place to use gmail for personal, work, and family email tasks.. separate, different, but the same

DT

I want the ability to use Gmail mobile on my Verizon phone.

kirksucks

To be able to treat Gmail just like an Exchange server.

That means full (and automatic) email, contact, and calendar syncing capability. This way if I read an email or dismiss a reminder on one PC, it's reflected on any other PC.

carlyman

This is kind of off-topic, but does anyone else think email itself needs an overhaul? One of the things that kills me about email is that there's no way to certify whether or not someone has received a message. Fax does it, and it's centuries old. My business sends out hundreds of faxes a day (solicited, not spam) and if email was somehow certifiable, we could get rid of that mess all together.

Tony of TonyandJuan.com

Another thing...

A feature to setup gmail to check other accounts every X minutes, instead of going to "accounts" and checking them manually.

antonio

Not really a feature, but how about some label colors that aren't shades of vomit?

Also, I'd like archived emails to preserve their original label name as sort of a "ghost" label. For example, if I label all emails from MajorClientA, I would prefer that if I click on that label I only see active reference emails and not every tiny message ever sent. However, sometime in the future, I might want to pull up ALL correspondence that was ever labeled MajorClientA.

Marina @ Sufficient Thrust

I would say my biggest peeve is lack of an static "Add To My Calendar" button. Back in the day when I used Notes, it was a great way to fairly easily put an entire email into a calendar entry.

Gmail (I use primarily the Google Apps version) does this ONLY when it detects a date/time/meeting in the message body. I'd like to see there as a static option.

NeilMcD

I like the feature that collects email addresses, but sometimes my friends have more than one email address and I would like to merge the collected address into an existing contact. Also, rather than just lump the collected addresses into your list, why not have them only show up in their own group and let you sort through them later. And while we are at it, standardize the whole management thing and make contacts tagable (is that a word? truthiness...yes) and make it work that way. HTML Signatures (for God's sake, Yahoo does it!). Other stuff.

buffalo2001

One word: FOLDERS!

The "label" system sucks. I am anal and want to get things placed away nice and tidy.

TelevisionWriter

Not too long ago I submitted a feature request for an improvement to the email filters (to block those pesky url encoded googlepages spam domains). One of selectable options was 'Have Gmail do your laundry'. Is this feature still on the table?? ;-)

JayDeEm

One thing..... a "mark as read" button.

I don't read half my emails I just mark them as read and a button instead of the drop down menu would be awesome.

Super_Moose

Just one....Attach notes!!!! Without filters, or crazy hacks!

BraveGiant

1. let me embed images. For the love of god is this 1993?

2. Signatures above the quote. again, you'd think this is a no brainer.

BigBrekfest

TWO-WAY SYNCING!!!

eroq

TASKS SUPPORT

eroq

How about let's see the better integration of contacts specifically?

Why not add in the calendar while we are at it?

Google is way behind ALL of it's competition on this (Outlook has integral interface, so does Yahoo and Hotmail).

eroq

ever since leaving Yahoo mail, i want ONE seemingly simple thing...go to next message after move or delete. please for the love of god, make it happen.

yes, i know there are now shortcuts for archive+next, i just can't get used to them. and delete still goes back to message list.

murph

2 way sync of contacts with my mobile and to stop that damn auto-adding of contacts....that's all I really need!

jamesreplenish

Sorting. I want to be able to sort my inbox by sender. I've trolled all the Gmail help groups and forums (Google groups that were monitored by employees/developers), and all they would say was, "you don't need to sort. search instead." Well, that's great, but what if I don't know exactly what the address is I'm searching for? I refuse to believe it's that hard to allow one to sort the inbox by clicking on the column headers. This was pretty much the #1 feature asked for in all the groups I used to follow.

EstherM

contacts!

AvatarZ

@kirksucks:

You are better off just using Mobile Web 2.0 and setting up a favorite in your browser for Gmail.

It works just fine, honestly.

A bit of a work-around, you can use the $5 mobile e-mail app [free on Verizon Premium Plans] as a POP mail retriever and get new mail notification that way, but I wouldn't use it for more than a reader.

sw4383

Really, there just are not a lot of good Web based contact managers out there. It would be nice if Google were to create one. Possibly even a stand-alone that would integrate with gmail because what they have now, kind of does suck - mostly because they add everyone you email, but there's more.

tasselhoff76

Outgoing "send as" filtering.

"When I send to this address, send as [this account]"

Don't need to send to my band mates from my work account, or vice versa.

toolshedtherapy

Sorting. Yeah, I know: I can always search. But I don't know what search terms are going to make the most impact in my filters, unless I see like items grouped together.

Oh, yeah. And wildcards in searches. So I don't have to write a million individual filters for the several maiilng lists with similar topics.

Guest

i see no excuse for gmail not recognizing the \Answered flag in the IMAP protocol. when i reply to a gmail message using my desktop client (eudora, thank you very much), the next time my inbox synchronizes with the gmail server, i lose the flag, and the message doesn't show up as replied-to anymore. this makes it much harder to keep track of items that need attention, and sort messages in general.

anyone have a workaround for that?

le_sacre

Contact sync with mobile phones. Or AT LEAST with Outlook. I'm sick of having contacts in multiple places.

shafnitz

@rnkoneil: I use the stars, but sparingly. Primarily I use stars for important but poorly-remembered information. For example, the login name and password for one of my academic memberships is automatically generated and not terribly intuitive. I have the email with that information starred for the six times a year I need to log in to do something related to the annual conference. In the end, the stars don't tell me if I've replied to a message or make it easy to find a reply to that message.

Bubarubu

- Google Gears support aka OFFLINE mode
- Inline View of Mails like Google Reader (wow I really would appreciate this)
- drop the annoying "send on behalf of"
- Contact synchronization with Outlook
- Signature depending on selected From address

DreamFlasher

The ability to filter keywords in the body of the message. I came to Gmail by was of Eudora, which still has the best filter controls of any Windows email client -- you can even do regular expressions. It's still hard to believe that in 2008, Gmail can only filter the subject and address fields.

Andre Kibbe

@PC_Pal68: Seconded. Also it would be nice to have the signature just below your text. When you respond to an email (and they can get quite long) it is placed at the bottom of the entire email. Who sees it there?

quoick

My biggest gripe with Gmail, which I use extensively for work purposes, is the ability to split conversations and join messages into a conversation. The lack of ability to do so renders the filtering/labeling system next to useless in my view.

Another nice feature would be the option to get a clean slate once replying to an e-mail. That is, no quoting the message, unless I specifically request it.

And the ability to always show the subject line when replying to a message (not having to click "Edit subject") in a conversation. Some recipient of my e-mails have been utterly confused, because I forgot to edit it when starting a reply from an old e-mail.

Peter Dahl

Frankly I don't get the whole thing about needing folders. Google indexes everything for you, so you can search on the text of the mail, and as long as you're labeling your emails, they work just like folders. Honestly, I think that we need to move beyond the notion of folders as information workers and embrace the fact that a single email should probably have more than one label at a time. For example, if I get a change request from a client, I'll mark it with a label for the client, a label called "Change Request" and a label for the project name. If I have get an email from a friend talking about the next trip to the hunting cabin, it's going to have a label for cabin trip, one for event, etc.

For my wishlist:
1) Google Reader style tags. I love labels, but I hate going through the drop-down. I'd rather type them in and use auto-complete

2) images in emails

3) tables in emails, especially copy-and-paste tables straight from Excel or SQL Server would be awesome

4) customized schedule for checking other email accounts. it sucks seeing that a message from your boss has been waiting for an hour and Gmail never bothered to pick it up till now

5) tighter integration with Google Docs would be swell too. Maybe something like a link to directly push an email thread into Google Docs for conferences, or even a split-screen interface where I have a Google Doc on one side and GMail on another and can interact with both in the same window.

MauriceReeves

Gmail does a great job pulling emails from my POP3 accounts, but my main school email account is on a Microsoft exchange server. If gmail could access either exchange servers or IMAP, my dream of condensing all of my various emails into a single gmail account would be complete!

SpriteMV

I prefer having a central data store on the web and having selected data on my mobile phone.

Yahoo! Autosync is brilliant as it syncs only selected categories to my Outlook.
The mobile phone software then syncs my mobile with Outlook.

What Gmail needs is better contact management, and then better syncing ability for syncing contacts, to do, calendar and notes... either directly with mobile devices or via Outlook. They should take a cue from Yahoo! (which does need improving in some areas but is leagues ahead of anything else)

vihar

Just a couple of things for me:

1) The opportunity to turn off the Spam filter mostly because I use Thunderbird's junk filter.

2) Gmail desktop client so that I can use the conversation option in a desktop client (IMAP doesn't do it).

rpeters1428

@Bubarubu: Its one more click, but if you send out a massive email to 45 students, then one sends you a response and you want to continue a conversation with just that student, you can edit the Subject line and put the student's name (or other distinguishing feature) and reply to the message. Changing the subject line in a conversation will start a new conversation.

x68507

-integrated video player for video attachment.

-faster & lighter interface

fullfilth

I think you left out two of the most important features (ones that most people obviously overlook because they should already be implemented).

1. Auto-spell check before sending a message
2. Integration with Google Gears for seemless offline access (without installing a massive Google Desktop or other 3rd party app)

x68507

Several colors of stars would help.
To Do list (tied to calendar)
Delayed email sending.
Sync gmail contacts with outlook.

NLCast

i know this isn't stock out-of-the-box, but, about 75% of the features being desired are already available through greasemonkey scripts or standard extensions(better gmail 2, gtdinbox, etc).. i believe every one of them has been covered here too..

if you're using IE, well.. sorry..

sirfice

Folders.

rhoderickj

Right now it's possible to auto-label message from individual people. I would like a similar system for entire groups from my contacts.

Stijn Vogels

1. Keyboard shortcut for adding labels. (I'm sure Greasemonkey could do this, I'm just lazy.)
2. Contact syncing.
3. A client (java or otherwise) for the Palm platform.
4. Inline images
5. Raw HTML editing.
5. Drag & drop file attachment.

dotyoureyes

A way to strip messages of attachments

photoben

1. Task List
2. Better Gcal integration
3. Ability to see Size easily and sort by it

markwms

@Jim:

[addons.mozilla.org]

ryanchild292

1. Email templates.
2. The ability to add contacts after you have typed your email (This might be possible, but I havent seen it)

cbiggins

1. LESS MEMORY LEAKS

2. Folders

3. Unread button, or filter to work

4. Better Contact Management

5. Integrated task/todo list (and not RTM!!)

6. Tighter Integration with Calendar.

jive01

In order of priorities, at least for me:

1. Image embedding
2. Image embedding

- and -

3. Image embedding

Felipe Coury

Back again with another,...

Within Contacts - would like to be able to share contacts of my choice with others. Not my whole contact list,... just the one's my co-workers and I need.

rookcnu

The ability to sync client to browser including email (done), calendar (done), tasks, contacts, and journal. I want to be able not only use gmail/gcal as a client backup but be able to use it on the road as though I never left my desktop.

Twodeadpoets

Folders. Like, where you can filter email into a folder, and not have to see it at all in your inbox. Also, email lists.

Jen

Gmail is great, but I'd like to see the following:
1. Remove "on behalf of."
2. Match one signature to the proper Gmail account when I am using one account to manage others.
3. Give the option to have the signature above the quote.
4. Schedule emails for later delivery (such as was recently added for Blogger.)
5. The ability to add a note or comment to an email for future reference. I get faxes by email but nothing in the email distinguishes one fax from the other. I'd like to add a note to the email with a summary. Or if I received an email but followed up on the phone, I'd like to attach a note to the email with the gist of the phone conversation, or just the words, "Did this on 5/5/08"
6. When I search my email for a name, I would like any matches in contacts to show up alongside email matches. Right now, searching contacts requires us to first click on "Contacts" and then type out a search.
7. OK, this is for Google Reader, but I can't resist, it bothers me so much: Stop asking me to confirm everytime I mark more than 50 articles "read!" Simply include an undo feature like in Gmail.

Could we have a Lifehacker post explaining once and for all that "labels" do everything that "folders" do and more? There really AREN'T tiny little filing cabinets on microchips that sort out data into drawers and files. Archive your email and give it a label. There. It's in a folder. Better yet, save a step and leave it in your inbox. "Inbox" is just anther label.

John David

I'd like GMail to get rid of the whole "on behalf of" issue. I know it is displayed by the e-mail client displaying the email, but it is displayed because of the way GMail writes the message header.

I'd love the ability to change some of the interface colors.

I'd love to be able to remove some of the links that I don't really want/need/use. For instance, I haven't ever found the need to "STAR" any messages, so I'd like to remove the link. The same with Chats.

I can't think of a good example why right now, but I think I'd like the ability to have a label, without actually displaying it in the label list. Perhaps obsolete labels for emails that are archived, but I don't really expect to be adding new messages to. Or seasonal labels. I don't need my "Fantasy" label until Football season.

Um...Filters. How about an "Add a new Filter" link at the top of the list of filters in addition to the one at the bottom? I get tired of scrolling to the bottom to click the link, only to be popped back to the top to create the filter. Same with Labels.

Think that's it for now. Y'all haven't thought of some of these, huh?!?! New stuff here, huh? I thought so.

Mister Mau

@It_Figures:

They already have that feature.
You can set it up in filters:
[mail.google.com]

Then, set up your labels:
[mail.google.com]

Then, every filter you create, you can add the feature of automatically adding it to a label.
And if you want, you can clone a filter, and have it apply to another label.

dapezboy

It is absolutely silly that gmail is useless for many people (including myself) who are on mailing lists / distribution lists.

DO NOT FILTER MY OWN EMAIL FROM MY INBOX ON POP3.

When I post to a mailing list, I NEED my post to come to my inbox so I know it hit the list and so I can archive it with the rest.

soulhuntre

A lot of people for multiple signatures and such, how about putting the signature ABOVE the reply and after where your cursor's focus is. So instead of this:

___type here____

Original Message

--Signature

It becomes:

__type here___

--Signature
___________________________
Original Message

Mail.app does it, and I would love it if Gmail Did it as well.

brandonmartinez

1. A sleek UI ? or else zenbe is coming soon.([geek-o-pedia.blogspot.com])
2. Skins
3. Integration of other Google Apps as sub-windows rather than separate tabs.
4. Better rich content support.
5. Signature support
6. A contacts manager popup next to the To: field like Outlook.
7. A signature selector (work, personal).
8. Sync with everything.

upnishad

I second the ability to send a draft automatically at a scheduled time.

I'd also like to see a way to detach an email, or at least a copy of an email, from a conversation thread; or maybe add an email to a conversation thread.

OptoGeek

RTL. That's Right-To-Left.

Yes, some of us do need it.

In ui=1 there is an RTL button in the Arabic and Hebrew interfaces, and there's GreaseMonkey for adding it to other languages (wish that was builtin, though). But Hebrew\Arabic ui=2 wasn't released yet!

Other than that, the usual stuff: HTML signatures + signature selector (I use GreaseMonkey for now). Images. Make "on behalf of disappear". Show message size, sort by message size. Add comments to messages (did anyone mention that? sort of like editing the subject line, just more less messy).

daph2001

@koalasthewise:
Mailplane for Mac is such an animal, its an awesome desktop email client that works only with Gmail and I love it!

lifesmymachine

I like most of the ideas above, but personally a label tag cloud that is checkable via Google Reader would rock Gmail for me.

deSelby

1. Better contact mgt (specifically not adding every e-mail addressee to contacts, and ability to sync to other apps).

2. Ability to remove attachments without delating e-mail.

3. Solution for "on behalf of" issue.

4. "Mark as read" and "Mark as unread" buttons.

robinfrance

Sorry if these have already been answered:

@bmearns: Yes yes yes, really need IMAP support for other accounts.

@combat chuck: There is a Firefox extension to handle this.

jackhynes

1) A contacts manager popup next to the To: field like Outlook.
2) HTML signature support and having the signature at the TOP of the email. Why the hell Gmail puts the signature at the bottom I don't know. If you have a long list of previous emails, you have to scroll to the bottom to get your signature.
3) A better contacts section.
4) Their own "to-do" list. Remember The Milk is good but it is a Firefox extension and so I would prefer Gmail to roll out their own version. I don't like to install too many FF extensions.
5) The ability to personalise Gmail more (background colours maybe?). I would love to give Gmail a grey background for instance).
6) The ability to send and receive attachments larger than 10MB.

MarkONeill

I would like to see that Google respects the individual rights of its users and protection of privacy and would not collect data and set up profiles not only from gmail users but also from the people that received gmail emails or sent emails to gmail accounts.

As long as this doesn't change, all the other changes are of low priority, IMHO.

Porree

contact management, especially syncing personal dates (birthdays...) with gcal

hlkljgk

@rookcnu:

There is actually a handy little program that will sync your Google calendar with your Windows Mobile Phone. Its called gMobileSync. Runs on yer phone and syncs over the interwebs. Bypasses Outlook altogether.

[rareedge.com]

Doesnt do contacts tho :(

huntsterUNC

@MarkONeill: There are multiple Greasemonkey scripts that handles putting the signature at the top of your email. Search userscripts.org for the one you like best.

OptoGeek

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