September 16, 2008

Gmail's Forgotten Attachment Detector

Gmail Labs added two new experimental features: a "Mark as Read" button and a very basic script that warns if you write about attaching documents but you forget to actually attach them.


The attachment detector couldn't recognize patterns like "I attached a file", "Check the attached file", but it worked when using: "I've attached..." and "I have attached". Greasemonkey scripts like Gmail attachment reminder find their way in Gmail Labs and you no longer need to use Firefox or install a certain extension to use them.

{ Thanks, Carlos. }
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13 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 16, 2008 at 1:53 AM

    FINALLY, the "Mark Read" button, i've been waiting for it since AGES* !!!
    (well, ages is the time since the mark read button greasemonkey script stopped working with the gmail 2.0 interface)

    THANKS GMAIL LABS !!!

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 16, 2008 at 3:26 AM

    kmail has this same feature on KDE. It's saved me the hassle of resending a couple of times, and also had a few false alarms. Overall, it's pretty useful

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 16, 2008 at 3:34 AM

    See US Patent US7016937 http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US7016937&F=0&QPN=US7016937

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 16, 2008 at 3:34 AM

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  5. AnonymousSeptember 16, 2008 at 6:45 AM

    This sounds pretty familiar. Didn't GMail used to do this years ago?

    Did they take it out, and just now reimplement it?

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  6. Alex ChituSeptember 16, 2008 at 6:51 AM

    @Anonymous:
    I don't think so. Maybe you installed a Greasemonkey script or an extension like Better Gmail.

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  7. AnonymousSeptember 16, 2008 at 2:09 PM

    US Patent US7016937 makes me sad. What's next - one-click checkout? Oh wait.

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  8. yasartSeptember 19, 2008 at 5:31 AM

    While reading mails "Mark as Unread" button would be nice too. I thought they also added it. I looked for it for a time as if they did. I read the post and it mentions only "mark as read" button. I am so disappointed. Hear me Gmail! I also want "Mark as Unread" button. I don't want to use dropdown for the features I use most.

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  9. AnonymousOctober 16, 2008 at 7:20 AM

    I, too, would like a "Mark as Unread" button.

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  10. AnonymousSeptember 21, 2009 at 10:10 PM

    This feature is pretty useless if I have to type the exact phrase "I have attached". If I can remember to type that I might as well remember to attach the file.

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  11. JoeMarch 16, 2010 at 10:43 PM

    Love this feature, thanks!

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  12. AnonymousApril 14, 2010 at 1:28 AM

    In french, there is a detection problem. If I says that a friend should join a mailing list or a group, with such a sentense: "Pol s'est joint au groupe", then there is a faulty positive detection of an attachement file.
    This feature cannot be disabled in the Lab config page, which is a problem for me.
    I don't like this new feature.

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  13. AnonymousJuly 7, 2010 at 5:54 PM

    Attachment detector failed with "... a look at attached resume and let ... "
    Not cool : |

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