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RT @googlechrome: Do you use @Gmail? You can now set Chrome to default open email links in Gmail - learn more: http://t.co/zNgdearX #yam

The University of California, Davis has stopped using Gmail for its 30,000-member staff and faculty body. The university was trying Gmail for faculty and staff with plans to roll out service to the entire campus. But school officials say the e-mail system isn't secure or private enough to meet their standards.

What gmail & outlook do and don't do together.

"In this security conscious era, many people have advocated implementing 2-step verification for Google Apps (or 2-step verification for Gmail).  I agree, and am here to pass along some tips that I have learned while implementing Google's 2-Step verification. These tips are both for users and admins."

GMail ninja stuff - worth adding to the wiki for info.

Access to a script and tutorial to let you use mail merge in Google docs. Can use Gmail and other web based email as the contacts source.

"Boomerang for Gmail is a Firefox / Chrome plugin that lets you take control of when you send and receive email messages." Looks good and allows follow up reminders

For the searchers among you! Search on Google and get web, mail and Drive results on the one page. At the moment it is only available on personal accounts as a field trial that you can sign up for.

Not here yet but coming ...

Back up Gmail to your desktop via IMAP

Good video for setting up delegated mail.

"Meta-data contains a great deal of information, and when gathered together it forms a startlingly clear picture of the person it comes from. A point that Professor César Hidalgo and graduate students Daniel Smilkov and Deepak Jagdish of MIT are trying to get across. They have created a new program called Immersion. It works by signing you into your Gmail account and collecting only the meta-data from your account usage history. From there you can get a picture of your emailing habits from that single account, and you will be shocked at what you see."

Blog and slides on Macquarie's move to Gmail for staff.