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Gmail and Django. I’d never considered using Gmail to send e-mail from applications, but it could be a useful way of avoiding having outbound e-mail falsely flagged as spam.

Posted 2nd July 2007 at 9:46 pm

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OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI - 12th December 2025
GPT-5.2 - 11th December 2025
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