Gmail updates from March 2009
5 updates to Gmail were tracked in March 2009.
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2009-03-31Comms & Meetings
Themes for your Gmail inbox
Users can now personalize the look and feel of their Gmail inbox by applying themes. To enable this feature, administrators must sign into the administrative control panel, navigate to 'Domain settings', and select the 'Turn on new features' checkbox. Once enabled, users can access themes via the 'Settings' menu.
Release: Rapid • Rapid: 2009-03-31 -
2009-03-23Comms & Meetings
Non-unique email addresses now allowed in Gmail contacts
Gmail's contact manager now allows users to associate a single email address with more than one contact. This means users can create multiple contact entries with different names that share the same email address.
Release: Both -
2009-03-19Comms & Meetings
Administrators can now choose the name display format for users in Gmail.
Google Apps Administrators now have the ability to configure how users' names are displayed in Gmail, with options to choose between 'First Last' (e.g., John Smith) or 'Last, First' (e.g., Smith, John) formats. Additionally, administrators can determine whether to allow individual users to customize this setting themselves.
Release: Both -
2009-03-18Comms & Meetings
Gmail usage statistics are now available in Google Analytics for Premier and Education administrators.
Administrators of Premier and Education editions can now track and analyze how their organizations use Gmail through Google Analytics. This allows them to view data such as user locations, languages, and visit lengths, extending existing analytics capabilities previously available for the control panel, Google Docs, and Google Sites.
Release: Both • Rapid: 2009-03-18 • Scheduled: 2009-03-18 -
2009-03-17Comms & Meetings
Gmail updates 'Mark as unread' behavior for conversations.
Gmail has updated the 'Mark as unread' functionality. Now, when a user marks a conversation as unread, only the messages within that conversation that were unread at the time the conversation was first opened will be marked as unread.
Release: Rapid • Rapid: 2009-03-17