GMail From Masking, but only if you’re in the US!
I read a while ago that Gmail started to offer “From Masking“. Now as much as I like Gmail, I still like being able to use my own domain name as it means I can change email providers easily without having to notify a gazillion people. Of course, I also like the warm-fuzy-geekliness(tm) warm-fuzzy-geekliness(tm) of having my own domain name.
You can probably understand my frustration when, after reading this post, I logged in to my account only to find that the “Accounts” menu described here as well as Gmail’s own help page didn’t even exist! I assumed that it’s a feature that they’re releasing to users in batches and left it at that.
After a few months passed I decided to check if they’d been so kind as to finally give me this feature. To my disappointment the option still wasn’t available. Then for some inexplicable reason, I got a hunch – “I wonder if my language has something to do with the menu being missing?”. I usually change my language setting to English(UK) or English(Australia) if it’s available. I think my hunch may’ve been because I’m now superstitious about language settings after all sorts of problems with Eclipse and English(Australia) on Windows XP (I can’t wait for my Mac, please send it soon Apple fairy, pretty please). So anyway, I decided to change this setting to English(US) and walla voila, the “Accounts” menu appeared! In fact it looks like Gmail uses an entirely different version of its client depending on the language you select. An interesting i8n strategy :)
So folks, at least until they decide to support From Masking for languages other than English(US), it looks like we’re going to have to choose between this and a friendly spell checker.
Firstly, congratulations on your discovery – credit, where credit is due.
More than the tech stuff, I’m interested in your “warm-fuzy-geekliness(tm)”. Now, it *is* a tad ambiguous, so pray enlighten – is it ‘warm-fuzy geekliness’, or warm fuzy-geekliness’? And just what is the threshold between ‘fuzy’ and ‘fuzzy’? It strikes me that ‘geekly’ (geeklie?) people could very well be trademarked with either warm-fuziness or fuzi-warmth.
Moving on to the final chapter in the sequence of the discovery, who exactly are you speaking to? Soppu-walla, tharakkari-walla, …? If perchance it is a person of acquaintance, then you might spell the name with a capital ‘W’. However, that’s irrelevant when quoting a Francais.
Looks to me like somebody else could use a friendly spell-checker. And please accept my gratitude for the heartiest guffaw I’ve emitted in months!
Nikhil Cunha
November 16, 2005 at 9:08 am
Let us mere mortals pause for a moment while we bask in your obvious intelligence and supreme mastery of the English language (not to mention French).
Anyway, it’s nice to know you’re still alive and reading this drivel. I’m sure you’ll have plenty more ‘guffawportunities(tm)’ if you keep coming back.
Abhijit
November 16, 2005 at 11:36 am
P.S. Sounds like you’re volunteering to proof read my future posts, what say you? Would you like edit access to this blog?
Abhijit
November 16, 2005 at 11:39 am
(notes sudden lack of response from Nik)
Neale
January 27, 2006 at 3:41 pm
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???? Bijit!!
Neale
January 27, 2006 at 3:42 pm