Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Who wants a Gmail account?

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Posted by Paul J. Neuhaus (Member # 3205) on 06-22-2005, 04:30 PM:

Anybody interested in a Gmail account? I have 30 invitations left to send. Just post or PM your e-mail account and I will send you an invitation.

Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 06-22-2005, 04:59 PM:

Paul, I just pm'd you. [beer]

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 06-22-2005, 05:23 PM:

Already have one but thanks! [Smile]

Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 06-22-2005, 05:46 PM:

[Confused]

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 06-22-2005, 05:57 PM:

Already have one, and don't like it.

Posted by Ethan Harper (Member # 472) on 06-22-2005, 09:06 PM:

What is Gmail? Is it like Dope-Phatmail?

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 06-22-2005, 09:21 PM:

No it's more like DiggidyWiggidyWhackMail.

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 06-22-2005, 10:06 PM:

Its a free email account by Google that lets you hold 2GB.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 06-22-2005, 11:44 PM:

More room for spam, then. [Wink]

Posted by Paul J. Neuhaus (Member # 3205) on 06-23-2005, 12:49 AM:

The good things about having one:

their idea is that you never have to delete an e-mail again. Also, you can use their search engine to search your e-mails. Quite simply it is e-mail unlike free accounts that you have used before.
Instead of a 2MB cap on attachments like hotmail and yahoo attachments can be up to 10MB.

e-mails can be grouped in ways not before available in an online format.
Your choice.... My offer

Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 06-23-2005, 01:56 AM:

Did they ever fix the security or privacy issues associated with this early on?

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 06-23-2005, 02:52 AM:

My e-mail has a 50MB limit for attachment size. AOL has a 20MB limit.

Posted by Brian Michael Weidemann (Member # 2243) on 06-23-2005, 04:56 AM:

I'm thinking if anyone has an actual use or need for sending attachments that size, he/she probably has a more efficient way of transfering the files than e-mail attachment anyway, right? Or maybe I'm just not hip to the scene where 50 megabyte attachments are standard, yo!

I've got a g-mail already. I'm not too impressed. Maybe it would be more effective if people sent me mail at that address. I don't even get spam to it ... yet. I check it once a month.

Posted by Paul J. Neuhaus (Member # 3205) on 06-23-2005, 06:59 PM:

Does anybody know anything that does make Joe happy?? [bs]

Ya missed the point man. It's free. No ISP paid here.

But if you do know a free service that offers that size of attachment please let us all know!!
[Razz]

Posted by Adam Wilbert (Member # 1184) on 06-23-2005, 07:11 PM:

y'all are smoking crack. G-Mail rawks. I wish it would let you manually group messages into conversations (like when I get four separate messages from amazon about one order, I'd like to group all of them together.) I was never a big fan of web-based e.mail since I like to archive all of my messages at home. But then I started needing access to my e.mail from multiple computers. G-mail is the answer for all of my woes.

quote: Mike Heenan
Did they ever fix the security or privacy issues associated with this early on?

what security / privacy issues? From what I understand, people just got their panties in a bunch thinking that messages could never ever be deleted and that all of their shady business dealings would be available for big brother until the end of time. Other than that, it sounds secure. I don't usually delete messages that come to my home account, so i'm not sure what the difference is.

Posted by Mike Heenan (Member # 392) on 06-23-2005, 07:26 PM:

Looks like it's been fixed since then

http://seclists.org/lists/isn/2005/Jan/0039.html

Google patches Gmail security hole

http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,98920,00.html

By Matthew Broersma
JANUARY 13, 2005
IDG NEWS SERVICE

Google Inc. has fixed a bug in its Web-based e-mail service, Gmail,
that allowed users to read the contents of other people's messages.
HBX Networks, a Unix community group, discovered the bug while testing
a Perl script intended to automate sending batches of newsletters.
Messages sent to the group's own e-mail address contained HTML code in
the "Reply To" field, and this code turned out to be the message body
of other users' e-mail messages.

The problem appears to be caused by a missing > character in the
formatting of the "From" fields generated by the group's Perl script.
"This, apparently, was enough to get GMail to provide us with some
portion of someone else's messages," HBX members wrote in their
analysis yesterday.

They speculated that the missing character caused Google's application
to read other data into this buffer -- a message that had been sent
recently, for example. In at least one case, the intercepted e-mail
contained username and password information, the group said.

"Regardless of the specific failure, the result is a compromise of the
privacy of communications over Gmail," the group wrote. "Message
content and address information are easily -- if somewhat randomly --
available to unintended recipients."

Google said the problem was fixed shortly after the HBX Networks
report appeared. "At 10:15 a.m. PST mails with the problematic
formatting as described in your previous story stopped being accepted
into Gmail. Previous e-mails that had this problem will also no longer
will be accessible. We appreciate your patience and we're sorry about
the bug," Chris DiBona, Google's open-source program manager, said in
an e-mail to the tech discussion site Slashdot. He urged users to
report security bugs to security_at_google.com.

HBX expressed concern that other such bugs might exist. "The
appearance of this issue, at the user level, probably indicates a
failure in GMail's code review and/or quality assurance standards,
which may result in other, similar errors," the group wrote.

While it is technically still in beta testing, Gmail has become one of
the most popular Web-based e-mail services since its launch in April
and has begun to come under the same scrutiny as other Google
services. Last month, for example, Google fixed a flaw with its
desktop search that could have allowed hackers to search the contents
of a PC.

Security problems are nothing new to Web e-mail. Last March, shortly
before Gmail's launch, IT security firm GreyMagic Software
demonstrated that scripts could be run in Hotmail and Yahoo Inc.'s Web
e-mail, bypassing scripting restrictions. Scripts embedded in e-mail
messages could have been used to steal passwords or spread worms,
researchers said. The problem has been fixed.

Posted by Paul J. Neuhaus (Member # 3205) on 06-23-2005, 10:50 PM:

Adam

You can group e-mails together. All you have to do is have that person or biz in your contacts under that address.
example: if you e-mailed me all the time and I wanted to look at all your e-mails all I have to do is go under contacts and select your name. All messages will be listed allong with any replies that you made to that person!

Posted by Adam Wilbert (Member # 1184) on 06-23-2005, 11:27 PM:

I didn't know that. But in the case of my amazon store order, one email came from "auto-confirm@amazon.com" one came from "amazon@autosupermart.com" and another came from FedEx with tracking info. Its not really a big deal, since it would be the same with my old email, but since i've gotten used to "conversation view" its suddenly the most annoying thing in the world! [Smile]

I just created a gmail "label" called "order confirmations" and apply that to all of my receipts. That keeps everything organized enough for now.