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Bug 56416 - Investigate in what new Gmail "inbox tabs and category labels" MediaWiki emails are going
Investigate in what new Gmail "inbox tabs and category labels" MediaWiki emai...
Status: NEW
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Low enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
https://support.google.com/mail/answe...
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Reported: 2013-10-31 08:47 UTC by Nemo
Modified: 2014-05-06 23:47 UTC (History)
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Description Nemo 2013-10-31 08:47:47 UTC
Gmail recently introduced this: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/3055016 (though it's only an old idea and something they started doing a few years ago: http://maffulli.net/2011/06/30/leveraging-the-address-book-as-your-social-network/ ).

The result is that my bank just sent me a newsletter with instructions on how to move their emails to a more prominent tab (and reminding me I can still switch back to the old interface). It seems we can't ignore Gmail. :)
Not as urgent as getting our mailers out of blacklists, but MediaWiki emails are sometimes critical so at some point we'll probably want to look into this more.

We might end up deciding that we should tell our Gmail users to add some of our email addresses to their contacts if they want to be sure not to miss password reminders, important security notifications and the like (after making sure there is a specific address from which we send such important messages).
Comment 1 Helder 2013-10-31 09:49:53 UTC
FYI: I receive Echo messages in the "Updates" tab.

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