Gmail two-step verification and Gmail Keeper

Recently I got a problem report fro ma Gmail Keeper user who want to backup his email and labels with Gmail Keeper, he’s having problem to get Gmail Keeper work. After some investigation he found that that’s because he have the gmail two-step verification enabled.

So if you have the two-step verification enabled for your Gmail account, you will need to generate an ‘application-sepcfic password’ for Gmail Keeper in order to let it access your Gmail account via the IMAP protocol.

Detailed instructions by Google here.

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Gmail now displays long labels better

Do you have long labels in Gmail? I do, because I use the ‘nested label‘ feature in Gmail.

But, previously,  long labels are not displayed very nice in Gmail (screenshot taken from the official Gmail blog):

 

But now things are getting better, long Gmail labels will be shortened when displaying in the conversations view in Gmail:

 

The Gmail team is awesome!

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Gmail Keeper can backup the strange Gmail labels

I got an email from Gmail user who’s concerned about Gmail Keeper’s ability of handling strange Gmail labels – labels that are containing irregular characters, such as /\~*, etc.

Well, the answer is YES, since I have specifically tested Gmail Keeper against such situation. If you found a Gmail label that can’t be backed up by Gmail Keeper, let me know.

This screenshot shows in the backup report window how strange labels were handled.

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