I’ve hopped on the gmail wagon, and am wondering if I’ve done so too quickly. I have a hotmail account and a yahoo account, and lately have found the features of gmail very useful (search saved e-mails, remember e-mail addresses, sort things quickly depending on my stipulation). So much so that I only use my other accounts as back up. But tonight I was disappointed by my inability to send a .41 MB attachment with gmail. I switched to hotmail and it was sent-not exactly easily- with a long upload rate. I realize the problem could have numerous origins, (quite possibly my old computer) but it made me think. :smack:
I have a 10 MB limit on my Gmail! I know because I send large size digital pictures all the time and was only blocked from sending like 10 at a time. Check your settings.
One thing to keep in mind is that some people have reported that gMail has dropped mail headed towards their inbox. The other guy’s server says it sent okay, Google’s servers say they received it, yet somehow it never makes it to the user. I haven’t had this problem yet … as far as I know.
It is strange, but gmail said “cannot connect with gmail check your connection” (basically) but my connection was intact and I had no problem sending other e-mails.
Sometimes this happens for a moment…see if you can save your e-mail and try it again. Occasionally I have connection isses. They have never lasted more than 10 minutes and usually are more like 1-2 minutes.
If you want opinions, then I will never go back to Yahoo or Hotmail as long as I live.
Gmail is constantly upgrading and working to help me. I will henceforth begin to sound like an advert for Gmail. Fair warning.
Between filters, labels, incredible space, no annoying pages or adverts - my Yahoo mail has a giant advert right on the page. Often it’s some bikini-clad woman. Yeah, just what I need to open up at work. Threading conversations. “Away” messages when I go on vacation. A great search feature. Built-in chat so I don’t have to download a damn thing. An easy help section. Highlights of the day. Different languages. An excellent spam filter. It remembers my e-mails by just typing a few letters.
Gmail IMo is by far and away the best e-mail program I have ever worked with. I like it better than outlook. One of the things I hope they add as a matter of fact is a calendar.
I use Yahoo mail, with its 10 MB upload, to send myself audio files uncompressed, in .wav format, from home, and retrieve them at work. It’s aways gone off without a hitch. If my filesize is larger than 9 MB, I have a split file program, and I send the parts in sequential e-mails. That works, too.
Hotmail is terrible. The world has passed it by. They haven’t significantly changed in seven or eight years (other than allowing more space for free accounts.)
Yahoo is ok. The world will soon have passed it by. They’re two or three years out of date. I do like that it’s connected with Yahoo Messenger which I still use.
I love my Gmail account.
I have one hotmail, maybe seven Yahoo and two Gmail accounts that I use for various reasons but one of the Gmails is the one that I use the most for day to day stuff.
I agree and have had a similar experience, which is why I’m surprised to have trouble sending my file to another gmail account. The explanation was unhelpful.
Yeah, I started using this yesterday in fact. Pretty snazzy. I’m still trying to figure out how the sharing works, but it’s a pretty cool bit of software. And, it’s integrated with google maps, so that when you enter a location for an event in your calendar, it automatically gives you a link to the map of the location.
GMail is great, but I haven’t used the others. Then again I’m unlikely to unless GMail really screws something up.
I dunno if you can do this via Yahoo/Hotmail but you can get GMail to send using different ‘From:’ addresses. Which means I can choose which e-mail address I appear to be using depending on what I’m doing but it’s all tied together in my GMail account. And the new Calendar is great too, you can type something like “Meet so-and-so at someplace at 7pm on Friday” in an e-mail and it’ll pick it up and offer to add it to the Calendar. It’s not perfect but it’s still pretty cool.
Regarding your problem sending mail, I’d imagine what’s happening is that the operation is timing out. To send the mail you’ve got to upload the large(ish) file to GMail which takes a while. If your browser decides to time out during this or there are other problems it’ll not work and you’ll get the unconnected message. It is a bit of a pain, there’s some things you could try depending what browser you’re using, have you tried using a different browser to upload it ?
What she said. In fact, when I asked, Anaamika was my invite to gmail. I asked how she liked it, and got essentially this same speech, in e-mail form. I’ve been using it a little while, and am constantly finding new, very cool things to play with.
And now, today I find the calendar. I may never get back to work…
I have not. I have an explorer browser. Can you recommend something else? I tried Moxilla (though not with this particular problem) but the download had some problems with my system.