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  1. Wily correspondents: your days are numbered. Google Apps enables email receipts.

    Read receipts allow senders to monitor the status of the messages they send and allow recipients to acknowledge receipt of mail.

    Opinion has long been mixed on email receipts. Overt aggression on behalf the sender? A necessary evil for evasive recipients?

    Most use receipts only as last resort when communicating with poor correspondents or as pseudo-legal documentation tool. In any case, they are a staple of enterprise culture. Long enabled in Microsoft Exchange/Outlook environments, Google has brought them to Google Apps.

    Email read receipts must be enabled by an organization’s domain administrator before users can access the feature.

  2. Google releases new Gmail feature Priority Inbox… with a twist for enterprise users

    Google announced a new mail feature late Monday evening, Priority Inbox.

    With a charming video, and compelling use-case, it didn’t take long for Gmail users to sing its praises even before the feature reached their account.

    What caught our eye was the release priority.  Typically new features like this are released first to consumer users of Gmail, with Google Apps users having to wait weeks or months longer.
    Priority Inbox is a bit different.

    Priority Inbox will be rolling out to all Gmail users, including those of you who use Google Apps, over the next week or so.

    Priority indeed.

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