Does Your Gmail Suck Too?
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I have been using Google Mail as my primary mail program for about a year now. I use Gmail to fetch mail from all of my other accounts. From this, I can send mail as if I was sending it from any of my six other accounts. This makes checking my mail super easy; it all happens in one spot. I was very surprised when I came across a Techmeme post titled “Does Your Gmail Suck Too?“
Messages are either not getting sent or being lost by the system. Several people have complained about not receiving replies, even after we have sent them back. The mail system hangs up and you keep waiting for something to happen.
I’ve had the issue where gmail hangs, however, that is only when I am ending a large file or a few images. When that happens, I take a break from the computer and go get a drink. When I come back, the message has been sent.
I have never once had an issue with people not getting mail from me. In fact, I get replies almost minutes later in some situations. Gmail seems to send my mail out fast, but it comes back even faster.
What about you? Do you use Gmail? Any problems with it?
Justin Capasso
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the oracle
June 24th, 2008
at 11:42pm
I don’t have problems with it, but I don’t use it as you do. I really wonder why more people don’t use a POP3 or IMAP program. Windows Live Mail for Windows, and Evolution for Linux, both work well, and make things easier for me.
Think about it, if you are having troubleswith GMail, in your situation, you could be screwed for all of your mail. (the All the eggs in one basket problem.)
David Fillis
June 25th, 2008
at 2:06am
I have used gmail for a while………it seems ok……I find gmx.com is better, personally. Gmail is alright but it has obvious limited actions such as listing in subject order or whatever, etc.
Justin Capasso
June 25th, 2008
at 9:55pm
Good point, the oracle =)
bubba version 40.0
June 26th, 2008
at 5:28am
I have been using gmail for about 2 years now. I have not had any problems with the system so far. I like the fact that it has so many other options available, The documents and the notebook options are great. I can do something at work and save it in google docs and go home and edit and revise the document. I like the notebook feature because you can take parts of web sites that you want to save, put them in notebook and retrieve them later. I would imagine that any student doing a research paper would find notebook helpful to gather information.