People still use hotmail? Good god, I opened an account with them a few years back, and within about five minutes of opening said account, my inbox had about ten pages worth of spam.
Gotta love GMail. I like the label system better than folders, the page layout is noce and clean, and I can honestly say I’ve never had a problem with lost mails. I do get a little spam, but 95% of it goes to the ‘Spam’ box. Only one complaint - sometimes the ‘conversation’ feature doesn’t work to well, and it bungs together a lot of unrelated mails. The email addresses and content of these mails are very similar though, so maybe it’s a case of GMail trying to be too clever?
What’s the size limit for sending files with Gmail? I sent an eight meg file once.
For what it’s worth, I’m loving Gmail. As far as I know I haven’t missed any emails, the spam filter works fine, and the layout is a thing of beauty.
I love gmail, but I came across an annoying bug that I just finished reporting. If I send an email via gmail POP that has bcc: recipients only, it shows up in my gmail inbox as if I were a recipient.
Oh, I do use those labels for absolutely every. last. thing. However, I hate that in reality they’re not just stored in that one location. Actually, they are all really in the archive section and if you have a lot of stuff you need to sort through that is not labeled but is archived (to get it the hell out of your inbox), it takes freakin’ forever.
Argh! Just put the damn things in only ONE place, will ya? Of course, I’m probably alone in that desire, so I’ll be off over here in this corner by myself being archived to death.
Even Microsoft spams Hotmail accounts.
“Okay, you have 250 megs now, but is that really enough? Why for the low monthly price of $19.95/year, you can have 2 gigs. What? 250 megs is enough for you? Well, how about the fact that if you pay us, we’ll take off the incredibly annoying feature of deleting your messages if you don’t log on for 30 days. Sound good now?”
You can say that again. I have restrictions set at max, so the only spam, heck, almost the only e-mails I get are from Microsoft trying to get me to buuy some service I don’t need. And you can’t block them.
Haven’t had any spam or delivery problems with G-mail, although admitedly I don’t really use it all that much.
I’ve been using gmail as my primary for a while, and I’ve been nothing but happy with it. I label everything that comes in, and have never had a problem finding anything. Plus, if a message isn’t labeled, you can use the search function to find it.
I don’t think I’ve ever missed a message, and whenever I mail myself from my work account (which I do a lot), it always shows up right away. And I’ve never had any spam.
I don’t think I miss anything either - I am forwarding 2 accounts I get my usually 150 emails a week from one of them, and another 80 from the other account and the spam is going to the spam folder 80% of the time, so no worries.
Nobody has metioned to me that I may have missed an email at all - and spam is going to the spam box - so I am happy albeit - I am running out of space and I need to download some emails and store them on my harddrive. Hopefully they get IMAP soon so it will be easy to archive mail with attachments.
I’ve been using Gmail almost exclusively for about four months now, and I haven’t had any of these problems. I’m completely happy with it.
I only recently started getting a trickle of spam, and it has all made it into my Spam folder. I’m sure this will get worse, but it’s a damn site better than the 3000 pieces of spam I get daily at my old address (on my own domain).
I’ve been using Gmail exclusively since June, and my only complaint is that it’s hard to do anything with search results. If I decide all my LiveJournal comment notifications should be filed under “forum notifications”, or deleted, then I can search for from:livejournal.com, but then I have to go through each page of results manually to apply the label or delete the messages.
If you don’t refer to the quoted text, delete it. Problem solved.
Nominally, 10MB.
But it’s a surprisingly elastic limit, IME.
I’ve sent files of up to 11.2MB with no problem - other than that it claims to have timed out before finishing the transfer - but it’s always actually sent.
It does choke on ~13MB, and I’ve never tried anything between the two.
Hotmail used to be great - before Microsoft bought it. I dropped it several years ago, after they started changing the damn interface every 2 months and the spam started rolling in by the truckload. Now I just use my ISP box and the Mozilla mail client. I can still access new email with a web interface if I’m out of town.
I said I rarely do, not never. I like having a running history; it makes it easier 3 or 4 emails down the line to remember what was discussed. One of the things that I really like about Gmail is that it keeps all the quoted stuff hidden initially - so that if I don’t want to look at it, I don’t have to, but if I find I need it for something, it’s easy to refer to.
It’s already happening. In the meantime, an older free e-mail account of mine has gotten no spam at all after two years of continuous use, probably because the service is not as well-known as Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, etc.
It’s funny, because that’s never happened to me with GMail. Hotmail howevewr can sometimes take up to a week to deliver mail.
Regarding folders, I make sure I label everything, and then archive. When I go to search for an old email, I can click on the folder, which will show all the archived messages. They just don’t sit in the Inbox.