Share any Email Message in Gmail with the Outside World

30 Apr 2013 Tech Blog » Internet » Bookmarklets » GMail » Web Design » Share any Email Message in Gmail with the Outside World With Scope, you can view the formatted HTML source of any message inside Gmail, it cleans them up removing the unnecessary style tags and you can publish the message as a public web page.

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Have you ever receieved an email message and wondered how they created such a nice layout inside an email message? What fonts and colors were used in the message body? How was the email signature created?

You can always look at the HTML source of an email message manually and it will lay bare all the elements and formatting that were used to write that message but there’s an even better and non-techie way. It’s called Scope.

Scope is essentially a bookmarklet that will extract the source code of an email message, cleans the HTML and formats the source for easy reading. Scope currently works for Gmail but support for Yahoo Mail and Outlook.com is coming.

There’s another good utility of Scope for those who aren’t really interested in the design aspect of their email messages.

The service can help you share any email message in your mailbox – like this one from Twitter – with a click and this can be a good alternative to traditional email forwards.

Open any email message inside Gmail and click the Scope bookmarklet. The app will convert that email message into a public web page that you can share with the outside world.

The URLs are automatically masked from the shared email message but you may even hide any other confidential details from the message – like the email addresses or phone numbers – before making it public.

The public URLs for your shared email messages will remain active for 15 days. The service is free though you would have to verify your email address before sharing any email message.

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Cannot Open Google or Gmail in Chrome? Try this fix

If you get socket errors when trying to open Gmail or Google search in Chrome, you aren’t alone. This is a known issue of Chrome but there’s a simple fix available.

Ever since I upgraded to the latest version of Google Chrome, I keep getting “socket” errors when trying to open Google, Gmail or any other website under the google.com domain.

This isn’t as issue with my Internet connection as I can easily access the Google websites from IE and Firefox but they simply refuse to load inside Chrome with the following error:

Error 15 (net::ERR_SOCKET_NOT_CONNECTED): Unknown error.

The problem gets resolved when the computer is restarted but that’s just a temporary solution as the errors keep coming back. It turns out that this is a known issue in Google Chrome and has also been experienced by dozens of Google users on Twitter.

While we wait for the Chrome team to fix the issue, the irony is that it only seems to affect Google websites, there’s one simple step you can perform to get rid of the socket errors without having to restart the computer.

Open Google Chrome and type chrome://net-internals in the address bar (omni box). Switch to the Sockets tab and choose Flush Socket Pools. Now open Gmail or Google.com in Chrome and the site should open without problems.

Also see: When you cannot open a specific website?

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Gmail Phone verification ??

Hi guys

Happy new year to you all:

Not sure if I'm behind the 8 ball here, but I just tried to setup several new email accounts for a new campaign I'm running.
I was pretty amazed that I had to confirm "ALL" the new Gmail accounts using phone verification.

I tried the usual CAPTCHA codes, but each and every time, I was taken to the PV page and could not get around it, regardless if I filled out the CAPTCHA or not!

Is this something just for my neck of the woods or is it now the only way to get a Gmail account?

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Yahoomail vs. Gmail

I have both.

Gmail is much...much better.

Yahoo! has too many ads, too much spam, a terrible search and a really crappy privacy policy.

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Get a Reminder to Follow-up your Starred E-mails in Gmail

You remember important message in Gmail by adding a star but, with time, that list of starred messages may have become too big. Get a reminder to follow-up.

If an important email arrives in your Gmail mailbox and you are unable to respond right away, you “Star” that message. These Stars (or Flags in Outlook) help us in remembering messages that need to be acted upon later else they are likely to get lost in the sea of incoming emails.

The problem is, unless you are regularly pruning the list, your Starred folder in Gmail may become just another dumping ground for emails that require follow-up.

What I have done is created an email newsletter that arrives every morning and contains a list of 10 messages, picked randomly from the entire pool of messages that are marked with a star in Gmail.

This daily email works like a gentle nudge to act and also alerts me of messages that have been pending for too long. Here’s how you can set up one for your own Gmail account.

Copy this Google Sheet to your Google Drive.Open the sheet and a new Gmail option will appear in the menu bar. Choose Initialize and grant access.Now choose Gmail -> Install to activate the script that will send you a daily newsletter. Close the Google sheet.

If you wish to stop receiving the email reminder anytime, open the same Google Sheet and choose Uninstall from the Gmail menu.

Related reading: Create Email Reminders Quickly

Also, the Google Script will send you a summary of 10 messages from your Starred folder. You can however change the values of cell D5 and D7 in the sheet to monitor another label or change the count of messages that should be included in your daily digest.

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Automatically Delete Older Messages in Gmail with Auto Purge

With auto-purge in Gmail, you can automatically remove unwanted email messages belonging a particular label and that have crossed a certain age.

The Trash and the Spam folders in your Gmail have a unique auto-purge property and old email messages belonging to either of these labels are automatically deleted after a fixed period of time (30 days to be precise).

Get rid of unwanted and older email messages with auto-purge in Gmail.

Auto-purging can help keep your mailbox lean and tidy.

For instance, if you have created a rule in Gmail that archives all your newsletter subscriptions to a particular label, these unwanted messages will live forever until you manually purge them. With auto-purging enabled, the older mails of a label are automatically removed from your mailbox.

You can’t enable auto-purging in Gmail for any particular label but there’s a simple Google Script that will bring this missing functionality to your Gmail. The script will basically monitor messages belonging to a particular folder /label in Gmail and purge those that have exceed the retention time.

Here’s how you can get auto-purge to work inside your Gmail:

Open Google Script and choose File -> Make a copy to copy it into your Google Drive.Set the value of GMAIL_LABEL to the label that you wish to auto-purge and PURGE_AFTER are the number of days for which you to retain a message in Gmail.Go to Run -> Initialize and grant the necessary permissions. This is your personal script and nobody else will ever have access to your data.Go to Run -> Install to install the auto-purge script.

That’s it. Exit the Google Script and it will continuously monitor that particular Gmail label in the background. If you need to disable auto-purging later, just open the same script in your Google Drive and choose Run -> Uninstall.

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