Do you know that it is possible to bookmark individual email messages of Gmail just like you would bookmark any regular web page.
To experiment, open any Gmail thread in your browser and notice the address bar as it gets updated with a unique URL. That’s the permanent address of your email message and it will stay the same as long as you don’t delete the message from your Gmail mailbox.
Why Bookmark Gmail Messages
This could be a handy alternative to search in Gmail (for accessing important emails quickly) or may be useful in situations where you don’t want to create another tag in Gmail just to remember a couple of important email messages.
You can bookmark Gmail message links in your web browser or save them as private bookmarks in delicious or even add them to your Read It Later list. Thanks Ouriel for the tip.
There aren’t any security issue because you can only access the email bookmarks if you are logged into your Google Apps or Gmail account.
Related: Get a googlemail address with gmail.com
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/gmail-emails-have-permanent-web-address/6811/
Reader Comments
Hi Amit,
Is this a safe way to bookmark.. As it may led to some chance to hack the mail account using the unique id of Gmail…
Also I tried with URL indicated in above image link its not opening…
Written by fasil on 01.28.09
my pleasure :)
Written by Ouriel Ohayon on 01.28.09
@Fasil
Not sure about the safety of bookmarking an email message, as I too think it may be hackable!
another thing, Amit has not [probably] mentioned the complete or exact address in the image. The correct ULR has another entity that stays with the URL till your login/ session expires. See the URL is something like:
link
where the other entity, I said, here is”zx=fjha84n6vbs7″ and then the last parameter is the unique number! Now, if you change “fjha84n6vbs7″ to “testThisOut” and hit enter to reload the message, it will load the message with new session but if you try changing the last UNIQUE number, Gmail will simply keep saying “Loading”.
Sorry, if I am wrong. Other guys may shout!
Written by Netwala on 01.29.09
i’d never noticed that! thanks.
Written by Ako on 01.29.09
even after bookmarking it, one has to login to that particular a/c in gmail. Better to use the search option of “star” utility.
What do others think ?
Written by Web Designer on 01.29.09
Yes, these gmail bookmarks are only accessible if you are logged into your gmail / google account. However if you are logged in once, you need not re-login to read emails behind these bookmarks.
Written by Amit on 01.31.09
Mail URLs challenge you for authentication is you are not logged in but image attachment URLs dont.
Written by Carr on 01.31.09
Isn’t this how all web based email services work ? I was able to bookmark an individual email in yahoo mail and then get back to it later. How is that different from what Gmail is doing ?
Written by Sharninder on 02.09.09
We do design [graphic, interior]
We use same email between different people to keep information stored in one places
sometimes we need to send store this emails in a calendar or copy them in a project manager
It is possible to put the email single url link and access it from the pm appl even the third party is not on the email account
Is there a solution?
Also I noticed that the url link is referring to the thread but not the individual email, is this correct?
Written by AlbertoMichieli on 03.29.09