Blogs on Gmail and Google Accounts

This blog is inspired by a suggestion mentioned as a feature request on Twitter, where I often visit to answer questions related to Gmail and Google Accounts.  The suggestion was about including an option to make drafts from received email with attachments, without going through the rigmarole of downloading and uploading attachments and also to create a Template response out of it. Given what Gmail presently has. it is possible to make both those things happen. Ideally, the second option should be a "No", because one of the known deficiencies of the Template responses is that it won't take in the attachment file, which is central to this blog. However, a workaround exists, which we shall use. To begin, here is the test email that we propose to convert into a draft and later into a Template response. It has some text content and a PDF file as an attachment. The first thing we do is to save the attachment in Google Drive by hovering the mouse pointer over the attachment and...