By now you’re aGmailninja, with filters and folders and tabs galore, right? Well, I thought that I was too, and then the Gmail team sent me an interesting piece of information about its next project. You thoughtPriority Inboxwas cool? Your email just got a lot more intelligent withSmart Labels. Smart Labels is a just-released function for Gmail inside of Gmail Labs. Once you go in and turn it on, Smart Labels will start looking at your incoming mail and will assign it as applicable to Bulk, Notification and Forum Messages....

If you use Google’s Gmail for work and home on your mobile device, this is something that will interest you. Today, theGmail team announcedthat the mobile version of Gmail now lets you sign-in with multiple accounts, which makes reading your email on the road way easier. The Team says: Just like on your desktop, you can now to sign into multiple accounts simultaneously. To sign into an additional account, click on the account switcher at the bottom of the threadlist, then click ”Sign into an another account....

With competition from Google’s own People Widget breathing down its neck, startupRapportiveis innovating fast to keep itsGmail pluginin the lead. Rapportive replaces the right-hand bar of Gmail with information about the people who email you. Tweets, LinkedIn information and other social data is displayed, helping to provide a little more context to the messages you receive. We recentlycoveredthe company’s addition of the ability to reply to tweets and follow people on Twitter right from Gmail, and now Rapportive is extending its service beyond just received emails to ones you’re sending too....

Google introduced Priority Inbox last year to much fanfare from those with bottomless inboxes, and todayannouncedthat it is taking the sorting options it provides to users a step further in the coming weeks. The new sorting options include Classic (that’s what you’re used to right now), Priority Inbox, Important first, Unread first, and Starred first. While Unread first and Starred first are self-explanatory,Important firstsounds a lot like Priority Inbox. The difference is that Priority Inbox shows important unread messages first, whereas Important first orders by importance but not by read state....

We reported yesterday that Google hasacknowledgeda problem with its popular Gmail email service after users reported missing emails, labels and contacts. In a recent post from theGmail blog, the team reassures that they have already restored access to many of those who were affected. If you’re one of the unfortunate Gmail users who logged into Gmail yesterday only to find that all your email and data were gone, you can breathe now because according to Google, things should be back to normal for everyone soon....