If on a busy day you are likely to skip half of your likely to be interesting e-mails just because the author is either not a close friend, or usually writes boring stuff, and if you used to regret these decisions, or even don’t like them at the time of taking them, then this script is for you!

What is does?

In Gmail it changes the sender names for a specific label both in thread-list and conversation views.

How to use it?

• switch to Gmail (it works with Google Apps as well)
• Install Firefox
• Install Greasemonkey
• Install the Balazs Szabo user script
• Create a filter with a label for the messages you would like to be filtered. It’s important to understand that only messages labeled with a specific label (by default Ashram) will be filtered.
• Refresh Gmail with F5

Settings

There are basically three settings you can customise. These can be found at the top of the script. To open it right click on the GreaseMonkey logo in your Firefox window, and select “Manage my scripts”. Then select the “Balazs Szabo” script, and click Edit.

1. the label checked in the line starting with var filteredLabel=
2. the senders’ “new name” in the line starting with var newName=
3. a refresh rate for gmail (you should increase this if your gmail becomes sluggish) in the line starting with var checkTimer=

Be careful to put quotes around the first two values!