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Quickly and efficiently search attachments on gmail with attachments.me
- res0nat0r 16y agoThe document indexing is nice, but not nice enough to let some 3rd party hook into my gmail account. A simple has:attachment label:labelname and some search text is good enough to find years old attachments for me.
- Tichy 16y agoI had a similar idea recently, although I was thinking mostly about images. But now that I see this, I also feel that I don't want to give away my email password. Actually so far I haven't even moved my emails over to GMail, still running my own server... What could be a solution to this problem? Would it work better as an app for Google App Engine, so that people could just install their own version of it?
- BenjaminCoe 16y agoRight now we use OAuth as much as possible, so that you don't have to give out your credentials -- we've been thinking about taking some other steps to eleviate these concerns, in the future.
- dreww 16y agoit bums me out that the thumbnailing breaks the aspect ratio of images. can i use it to mass delete attachments out of my gmail account to free up space?
- BenjaminCoe 16y agoHey dreww, did you signup for an account early on? I've taken steps to fix the aspect ration recently :) Right now we don't allow you to delete attachments out of your Gmail account from attachments.me -- great suggestion though.
- 3pt14159 16y agoHilarious video. Ben Coe is a great guy, definitely the right guy for the job. Knowing him personally makes it hard to take the plunge into using the service, but for someone worried about them misusing the data, know that he was a solid dev over at FreshBooks where he was entrusted with millions of users financial data. He's trustworthy and they already have a number of users, so there won't be any human eyes on it. Disclaimer: I went for lunch with Coe today, we're good friends.