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I can finally say that Gmail is now complete. At least in my book. I have successfully managed to balance and organize all of my incoming and outgoing email accounts from within a single Gmail account. The latest feature(s) add an automated vacation response and group mailing lists.

You can set up a vacation response in your Gmail account that will automatically reply to anyone who emails you. While the vacation responder is enabled, Gmail will send a response to anyone who contacts you.* If that person contacts you again after four days and your vacation responder is still enabled, Gmail will send another vacation response to remind the person that you’re away from your email.

The only way I could see Google improving the feature is to provide users with an option to set a vacation response for individual email addresses that might be forwarded to a users Gmail account.

Vacation Responses & Mailing Lists [via]