Iran Limited GMail, Yahoo, and Hotmail Usage

Iran's Telecommunications Ministry began to restrict the use of electronic messages (email) from foreign service in corporate banking, insurance, and mobile operators. The government wants the company to use Iran's Mail, a local email service that have addresses domains ending with .ir (dot IR).

Not only employees, restrictions on the use of foreign mail applies to the customers of the company engaged in three industry sectors. Government agencies and universities must also use the email address from domain .ir.

The Iranian government is not directly banned GMail, Yahoo and Hotmail. Reported by the AFP on Tuesday (5/15/2012), this step is part of government efforts to secure and monitor the communications of their citizens, by cutting off internet connection to foreigners and global email service providers.

Check Google Mail Statistics using Google Meter

Busyness sometime makes a person does not realize that many emails were ignored. Countless emails that are not read and not replied. However, now all can be known with an application that helps users to know email statistics. GMail Meter Apps is application that is made by Romain Script Vialard, top contributor to Google Apps Script.

The concept is similar to an application Google Account Activity service that provides statistics about the use of Google Account. The difference is, Google Account Activity is used by Google account owner, whereas GMail Meter is more specific to Gmail users.