Last night I went to the Celtics/Clippers game in LA. Boston lost, but it was a great game; right down to the wire. Anyway, that’s not the purpose of this write–up.

When I got home, I uploaded the pictures and e–mailed them out to my family (as I do). I sent them out to dad, mom, sister, and my uncle.

I wrote out the e–mail, and at the end I wanted to thank my Uncle for the tickets, but I thought it would be weird for the rest of the people to see “Thanks for the tickets uncle Jim” at the bottom of the e–mail. So instead, I wrote a second e–mail thanking for the tickets. I know e–mail is pretty "green", but I found this to be a very fixable issue to save that second e–mail from clogging up inboxes.

This actually happens to me quite a bit for some reason, and most of the time I just don’t send the second e–mail. So I got to thinking and I’d like it if GMail (the masters of web they are) could implement some sort of conditional statement to section off an e–mail.

The GMail If Statement:

{if:recipient="myuncle@example.com"}
Thanks for the tickets!
{/if}

I could have e–mailed Google about this, but in the past that’s never worked so I thought I’d write something up and turn to the community about it.

Anyway, I think this is a cool idea, if you agree and think it’s a feature that could benefit you in GMail, please leave a comment, share, digg, whatever. And maybe it’ll make it’s way back to Google.

Even if it’s only applicable to GMail recipients, could be cool and a simple feature to add in. I’d rather see it as a GMail feature than a Greasemonkey script, but hey… I’d use it either way!