Like most people, I know better than to open a message marked "Offensively prurient photos" or "Become a millionaire while you tan".
A hundred and forty characters is way too much these days… It's lightweight, easy, you don't have to open a message — the notification itself is everything you need".
When you open a message from someone you know, the ad panel becomes a message panel; you can shoot a note to a Facebook friend without leaving your e-mail window.
When you open a message that you want to save as a document, click the More menu and choose Create a Document to saves the message as a Google Docs file.
There's even a feature that strips the graphics out of messages that come from strangers, to spare you the surprise of opening a message titled "Got your note" and finding a nude photo inside.
When you open a message that contains a code for a Web bug graphic, the code calls out to the spammer's server to download the requested graphic, and reports your e-mail address at the same time.
Some recipients of e-mail newsletters say they do not mind if the sender knows when they open a message, particularly if the aim is to alert them to a sale or a new product.
It takes 10 seconds to open a message seeking help or charity, assess its content and respond with either "thanks babes", "sorry babes" or "see a doctor babes", then hit send.
When you open a message in the Mac OS X Mail program and see photos that you'd like to add to the iPhoto library, click and hold the cursor down on the small blue Save button in the message header.
Not only is each pixel perfect and beautifully filtered, if you want it to be — in contrast to the smear of real-time pixels that often await you upon opening a message in Snapchat — but each message clearly indicates who received it and how the recipient (or recipients) responded.
