On 31 March 2010 00:15, John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Of course I can read my email via
gmail.com, which
hides the "crap",
however that is not ideal when I want to read my email and compose
responses while I am offline.
Get Gmail Offline, then! (You turn it on somewhere in preferences.) It
uses Google Gears to enable you to read and compose emails offline and
it syncs when it has a connection.