Hacking Gmail

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Part I — Starting to Use Gmail
The operators detailed in Table 3-3 are all self-explanatory and can be combined.
For example, consider the following search parameters:
in:inbox from:BenHammersley “fancy a pint?” 
This search would result in any message from my Gmail account, in your Inbox,
suggesting a visit to the pub. In order to bring any unread mail sent before New
Year’s Eve 2004, with an attachment, and the subject line New Year’s Eve
Invitation, you would conduct the following search:
is:unread before:2004/12/31has:attachment  subject:”New Years Eve
Invitation”
Very simple indeed.
For more information on advanced searching with Google, a good place to start is
Google For Dummies.
And Now . . .
You’ve reached the end of Chapter 3. You should feel confident using Gmail itself,
in getting your mail into and out of the system, and in using the system with some
sort of flair. From the next chapter onward, you’re going to delve into Gmail’s
inner workings. Things get much more technical from now on. Let’s go.
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Getting Inside Gmail
S
o, by now you should be up to speed with actually using
Gmail. It’s time to get a bit dirtier. Time to get under the
hood, so to speak, and fiddle with the application. In this