GMail vs Hotmail What is better ?

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Malversan - thank you for you comprehensive comparison witch show strong points of GMail. RSS thing is very nice !

Originally Posted by kwanbis

That is not very nice of you.

Yes. I also at age of 16, stole two lollipops from the store. I hope that my action don't destroy my image in your eyes.

Always remember:

Best posible and not to guess Question&Ansfer for email account is:

Q: ass
A: ass

:-]

[zygzak]

And please remember, people from more advanced countries than Poland, don't leave key under your doormat. Somebody, as a gesture of good will, could take away your T.V and do LOL on public internet forum.

[Lawrie]

Originally Posted by Malversan

customize the notification message to include the desired parts of the email message, ...).

I just stumbled upon this thread and tried the RSSNews plug in as my email notifier. It works great so thanks for that. Moving to some customization, right now I get the header and the link but would like to get all or part of the body of the message. Here whats in there now:

#<title>#
#<link>#
#<description>##<content>#

What do I have to add to get be able to see the body of the message?

Thanks in advance

[bob22]

Maybe ask on another thread Lawrie... not getting much response here! I'm afraid I am not too sure..

[dressmaker's]

I stay with hotmail, I'm a user

[Malversan]

Originally Posted by Lawrie

I just stumbled upon this thread and tried the RSSNews plug in as my email notifier. It works great so thanks for that. Moving to some customization, right now I get the header and the link but would like to get all or part of the body of the message.

Well, this explanation is going to be about the wonderful RSS plugin and not about GMail (so it's a bit "off topic" in this thread), but I hope it will be useful for the people that unnecessarily uses the GTalk plugin just to check their email.

You can add to the message the content of any XML tag that is present in the RSS source elements. The entire body of the emails is not transmitted in the GMail feed (RSS is not meant to be a bandwidth hog), but the first lines of the email body are sent in a tag called "summary".

Here's the message format I have for GMail RSS notifications:

#<link>#

#<name># - [i]#<email>#[/i]
[b][u]#<title>#[/u][/b]
#<summary>#

As you see, you can use bbCodes for advanced formatting. And you can also insert blank lines and literals in the format. The RSS plugin allows a great customization of the feed messages.

This way, everytime I receive a GMail email, I get a message and a popup from the RSS contact feeded by that account, with:
- A direct link to the message in webmail.
- The name and email of the sender.
- The title (bold and underlined) and the first lines of the message.

Until some days ago (Google changed this recently) you could even set the link to autologin in GMail by using this:
#<link>#&Passwd=your_account_password
Definitely unrecommended for security reasons (as the link with your password in it would be shown in your message window and logged in your Miranda database), but anyway it's another demontration of the possibilities of this plugin used as GMail notifier.

Another good feature for an email notifier: the check interval can be configured differently for every email account. You can even check any account separately on demand.

I also have all my personal GMail accounts (as RSS contacts) combined in a metacontact, so I can check any email received by clicking in one only place. The tag "#cname#" can be used in the message format to show the subcontact name (thus to distinguish visually the account where the message was received), but I don't need such concretion in my daily work.

And finally, with History++ plugin I have a great log, search and bookmark offline tool for my GMail emails.

Sincerely, I've never seen a so complete and customizable email notifier as this GMail + RSS plugin combination.

[Lawrie]

Originally Posted by Malversan

You can add to the message the content of any XML tag that is present in the RSS source elements. The entire body of the emails is not transmitted in the GMail feed (RSS is not meant to be a bandwidth hog), but the first lines of the email body are sent in a tag called "summary".

Here's the message format I have for GMail RSS notifications:

#<link>#

#<name># - [i]#<email>#[/i]
[b][u]#<title>#[/u][/b]
#<summary>#

As you see, you can use bbCodes for advanced formatting. And you can also insert blank lines and literals in the format. The RSS plugin allows a great customization of the feed messages.

This way, everytime I receive a GMail email, I get a message and a popup from the RSS contact feeded by that acount, with:
- A direct link to the message in webmail.
- The name and email of the sender.
- The title (bold and underlined) and the first lines of the message.

Another good feature for an email notifier: the check interval can be configured differently for every email account. You can even check any account separately on demand.

I also have all my personal GMail accounts (as RSS contacts) combined in a metacontact, so I can check any email received by clicking in one only place. The tag "#cname#" can be used in the message format to show the subcontact name (thus to distinguish visually the account where the message was received), but I don't need such concretion in my daily work.

And finally, with History++ plugin I have a great log, search and bookmark offline tool for my GMail emails.

Sincerely, I've never seen a so complete and customizable email notifier as this GMail + RSS plugin combination.

This is excellent, thanks so much.