Fresh from the Google Mail Blog yesterday is a post on a new security feature, Remote Sign-out. You can see the other locations are you signed in on and activity history with IP addresses. This worked on both my personal gmail account as well as my Google Apps email address. It’s not much but I love to know that security is always being looked at and improved.
Very nice feature… but it doesn’t work with IE6 (and maybe with other browsers).
You can use the direct url of the page!
Follow these steps:
1) change your browser’s user agent string (you can use something like “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)”), close the browser and reopen it in order the change to take effect. From now your browser will be identified as IE7
2) Log in to Gmail with your account, et voilà, “Last account activity” is available on the bottom of the page. You click it and the popup opens. Save the url of this page, which will work on all browsers, then undo the changes you made to the user agent string of IE6 and restart the browser.
When you are logged onto Gmail and you need the “Last account activity” page, simply use the url you previously saved.