Mail thru javascript

you can automate sending bulk emails. In case you dont want to send BCCs or even CCs, (some rare cases, i agree)..

if your content is all text or html, (the example given is for text), and the mail-ids you need to send individual mails are one per line in a google spreadsheet (customisable to add other data),
you can open the spreadsheet, go to tools->ScriptEditor
and start typing your javascript! heres an example that sends each mail to one individual at a time, in clear text

//This thing just adds a convenient menu/submenu in your spreadsheet window!


function onOpen() {
  var subMenus = [];
  subMenus.push({name: "Email File to selected Range", functionName: "mysendmail"});
  SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().addMenu("Email", subMenus);
}

function mysendmail() {
  var numAddrs=SpreadsheetApp.getActiveRange().getValues().length;

  for (var i=0; i
    var toAddr=SpreadsheetApp.getActiveRange().getValues()[i].toString();
    //Browser.msgBox("what is in toAddr is: " + SpreadsheetApp.getActiveRange().getValues()[i].toString());

// this is the line that sends the mail
    GmailApp.sendEmail(toAddr, "sendmail", "testing");
  }
}

if you want to attach a file, you need to use MailApp's sendEmail interface that accepts the attachment.

MailApp.sendEmail(recipients, emailSubject, emailMessage, {attachments: fileName});

check the documentation for other cool scripting interfaces with google apps.

RSS feed for gmail ...

I like this feature, where gmail is now accessible over rss feed.

try this in firefox ( is rss feed support there in chrome by now? )

https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom

Though this feature is nice , i wonder if there are any uses of this feature in-spite of PoP3 or SMTP clients