If you had asked me yesterday what I thought was the biggest problem in any Google application, I would have told you that it's sending mail from different email addresses through Gmail.  Gmail let you send email from any address that you could receive mail to, but it always sent it from your main address "on behalf of" the secondary one.

This was unnacceptable.  My personal email address is runfromthebear which isn't very professional.  I can't have that attached to all my professional emails.  The result was that I had five different Google Apps accounts and I had to log into all of them to send mail.

Well, Google just fixed that.  You can now enter SMTP info for the additional accounts so that emails are sent through the proper outgoing server.  This removes the need for the "on behalf of" crap.

This was on my list of top 10 things that should have been fixed five years ago that almost made me lose faith in the big G.  Well, loving software can be an emotional rollercoaster, but I rode out the storm and now everything's gravy.

Next on my list is the main Google Docs page.  That thing is broken beyond belief.  Let's see some progress Google.  Also, I talk about Google too much so I'll try to cut back a little.  Sorry about that.