But as Google has started upgrading all Gmail accounts to a new and improved Gmail a new version of the Better Gmail extension is needed.

The aptly named "Better Gmail 2" is available at the Lifehacker site.

The new Better Gmail 2 extension lacks some of the features of its predecessor — I'm missing the Airwaves skin, for instance — but it's still at version 0.1, so they'll probably resurface in later versions.

In other news: All Gmail users now have IMAP access.

You are currently using 639 MB (21%) of your 3044 MB.

A quick look at the official Gmail blog and yes:

That said, a few of you are using Gmail so much that you're running out of space, so to make good on our promise, today we're announcing we are speeding up our counter and giving out more free storage.

Storage boosts are also on the way for Google Apps.

As Borat would put it: Very nice!

Update 1 @ 12:20
Just stumbled upon my post "5 GB of storage at Hotmail. As it now turns out, Google did not do nothing :-)

This email has scam written all over it. First of all, I doubt that PayPal would ever send out an email like that. Second, the email wasn't even send to me but "mactipper@gmail.com".

Anyhow, here's the text from the email:

PayPal

Information Regarding Your account:

Dear PayPal Member!

Attention! Your PayPal account has been violated!

Someone with ip address 49.225.126.87 tried to access your personal account!

Please click the link below and enter your account information to confirm that you are not currently away.

You have 3 days to confirm account information or your account will be locked.

Click here to activate your account

Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team

Usually you can spot these scams from the bad grammar. This one's is in the better half but still:

You have 3 days to confirm account information or your account will be locked.

Normally you'd write "your" between "confirm" and "account information".

Soooooo, long story short: Don't click the link, if you get an email like that :-)

Zimbra offers branded e-mail with calendar and mobile features as well as the ability to work offline. The company has more than 200 educational, business and ISP partners, including Comcast, that offer branded e-mail service to roughly 9 million subscribers.

What differentiates Zimbra are the "Zimlet," Web service mashups that offer richer functionality in e-mail. For instance, people can simply mouse over airline flight information in an e-mail to check on flight status. Users are also able to track FedEx deliveries and get maps, stocks and other information in e-mail too.

GigaOM also has a post on this.

Looks like there's a great deal of stuff happening in the field of browser based email applications. Again. Nice. Very nice.

Nevertheless, I just got a mail from Hotmail telling me, that my account has been upgraded.

Among other things, my account is now an impressing 5 gigabytes — a bit more than the 2.9 that Gmail is currently offering.

It's going to be a little bit interesting to see what's going to happen here. Yahoo has unlimited space and Hotmail is now providing 5 gigs. No way, that Google will do nothing ;-)

That's my view…

Version 2 of Mozilla's e-mail application Thunderbird is out.

I'm referring to the e-mail receipts, which notifies the sender as soon as the recipient opens the e-mail.

I hate those receipts. Grrrrr. First of all they don't tell the sender if the recipient actually reads the e-mail or just discards it. Plus sometimes when I read an e-mail I don't post my reply until later. Maybe because I haven't got time for a reply when I'm reading the e-mail or maybe I have to check up on some things before replying.

So why do we have e-mail receipts at all?

"Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center".

It's a great read if you want to know how services like Gmail can be used in many ways!

The reason: Gmail now supports fetching e-mail from others accounts using POP3.

So I figured that I might as well go 100 percent online with my e-mailing stuff :-)

To stay updated on incoming e-mails I'm currently using ePrompter. But it would be better, if there were some online equivalent to ePrompter. Anyone heard of anything like this?

I could of course use the RSS from Gmail and smack it into Bloglines but I don't want my e-mail updates mixed up with my blog and feed updates.

And if you add the e-mail addresses as accounts (called "Send mail as") in Gmail you can actually manage most, if not all, of your e-mail chores in Gmail. Nice :D