On 31 March 2010 00:15, John Vandenberg jayvdb@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.