Gmail New Features: Contacts Restore & Email Delegation

Occasionally when you are outstation without email access and are thinking to delegate the email access rights to third party that you trust so that they can continue to monitor and respond to any incoming emails, good news now that you will able to do so with a new feature release to all Gmail users by Email Delegation.
The second new feature is the ability to revert your contact list to its original state, for up to 30 days after any changes have been made. 

Email delegation has been available to Google Apps users but you can only grant access to users in the same domain. Gmail users can now grant access to their account to other Gmail users.
The setup is pretty straight forward, just follow below steps and you are set:

1. Click on the Settings (located at the top right corner) and then choose Accounts and Import tab.

  2. Go to ‘Grant access to your account’ and click on ‘Add another account’ link.

 3. On the pop up window, enter the email address of the person that you would like to grant access and click on ‘Next Step’.
4. A confirmation message will appear and just click on ‘Send email to grant access’. Not to worry that you will be able to rewoke the action at any time later.
5. On the other end, the delegate will receive an invitation and once after he accepts the request, the delegation process is completed. Once after refreshed your browser, you should be able to find an additional email address that can be toggled at the top right window for such purpose.
While this is not something really new (which was previously only available for Google Apps account), but it has been released to all Gmail users now which is definitely a great move for them to organize, view and send email on behalf of others in shared account more effectively.

The second new feature is the ability to revert your contact list to its original state, for up to 30 days after any changes have been made. Inadvertently deleted a contact, or worse yet, an entire group? Something went wrong when you were syncing your mobile device with your Gmail contacts? By going to Contacts > More Actions > Restore Contacts, you can revert your contact list to its original state anywhere from 10 minutes to 30 days in the past.