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Gmail has officially integrated several of our favorite Labs-only features into Gmail proper, including previously mentioned features like search autocomplete, Go to Label (one of the biggies in my Gmail master redux), forgotten att

Facebook is revamping their messaging system into a full-fledged email client, according to tech news site TechCrunch. We can't imagine ditching our beloved Gmail accounts for Facebook's alternative anytime soon (at least not without some serious innovation from Facebook), but for those true Facebook nuts, it could be a viable email alternative. [TechCrunch]

Gmail is easily the most popular email application among power users, and with good reason: It's an excellent app. But if you haven't gotten to know its best shortcuts, tricks, Labs features, and add-ons, it's time you made Gmail sing.Photo remixed from Google's own Become a Gmail ninja page.

According to tech news site Neowin, an anonymous user posted usernames and passwords for over 10,000 Windows Live Hotmail accounts to web site PasteBin, including accounts on email domains like @hotmail.com, @msn.com, and @live.com. Neowin verified that the accounts are genuine, and that most appear to be based in Europe.

Windows/Mac/Linux: Mozilla has released a new preview version of their desktop email application in the form of Thunderbird 3 Beta 4, adding a new email search, smart folders, and more. If you're a Thunderbird user, you're probably familiar with what the open-source mail manager can already do, so here's an edited shortlist of notable new features and improvements:

If you use Gmail's previously mentioned Mail Fetcher tool to grab email from other POP3-enabled email accounts, you may have noticed that it sometimes checks for new mail on very slow intervals—particularly if you're importing from a mostly inactive account. Weblog TINYenormous explains:

On Monday we asked you to share what email service you use, and some 18,000 votes later, the result is overwhelming (if unsurprising):

Those "Sponsored Ads" in e-mails are an annoyance to both sender and recipient and they seem to escape blocking. Until now. These two (so far) fail-proof sentences at the end of an email will let you enjoy e-mailed rants, ad-free. (Click the images above and below for a closer look at the before and after effect.)

A few months back we got word that Gmail had fixed the annoying "On behalf of" nonsense that showed in your email headers when you sent email from your consolidated email addresses via Gmail—an annoyance th

Registering for an account at any web site almost always requires an email address, and some people use a secondary address they don't care about instead of their real email address to avoid spam. If you do this, be very careful. (Click the image above for a closer look.)