It might make me a heretic for saying that. But it's true, Gmail sucks. I hate it's mandatory grouping of emails by 'conversations'. That's great sometimes, but often sucks making things way to confusing. That's because it filters by subject line.

For example, I posted the canoe on craigslist. Now I'm getting email from lots of people with the same subject line "canoe". A big jumble of multiple people's emails emails mixed together with my replies back to them sucks. I actually have to track this on paper because gmail is too confusing. I can't just use the client to make sure I've replied to each email.

Another example is longer email threads from my job with multiple people on them responding with lots of replies and forwards. Occasionally one will make it to my personal gmail account. One was so confusing, I didn't even reply because I didn't know who sent it to me. And it wasn't as simple as just 'hit reply'. The email was broken into 3 sections by gmail, each one sent from a different person who somewhere contributed to the email chain, even though actually only 1 person sent me this email chain.

As much as I hate Micro$soft their Exchange client/server, Windows XP SP2, networking protocols, and domain controllers are excellent.

I think I might go back to using hotmail more just because Gmail sucks. It tries to be all trendy and streamlined. All I see on my end is a jumbled fucking mess.

And no I don't just not understand email. I used to be a linux/win email admin for years. I could sent an email to you using a command line if necessary. It's just gmail that sucks.

I've been using Gmail since 2004, and I've never had a problem with it, even when I was getting 20 or 30 emails a day from a Craigslist ad and most of them were titled "LOLcats".

Stop failing at apartments, email, and zombies is what I'm saying. <3

Posted by SaraBellum Stop failing at apartments, email, and zombies is what I'm saying. <3

Lol, Probably a good idea

I've been using GMail for over twenty years, starting back when you had to draw the inbox on a piece of paper for yourself, and I agree with Sara.

gmail has always been great to me. there is a lot more integrated that hotmail has. in fact the address book/calendar integration works much like exchange, you can even set up gmail as an exchange account on clients and phones where you browse mail via imap and pull down/sync calendars and contacts. and last i checked you had to PAY to pop mail or connect via imap with hotmail/live/bing/whatever

but hey, what do you want for free?

have fun with hotmail

i

love

gmail!

For the most part I love gmail. The one nitpick that I have is that it does not do partial string matching when you search for messages. I realize this is because they are attempting to do a more semantic approach but I hate it when I search for "host" and it cannot find it because the person who wrote it to me said "hostname".

Yeah, whats the connection with Gmail and Craigslist??

Seems like all the bogus emails on craigslist come from gmail accounts

Posted by Debi Yeah, whats the connection with Gmail and Craigslist?? Seems like all the bogus emails on craigslist come from gmail accounts

It seems it's almost monthly tech news that Google's Gmail CAPTCHA gets cracked. It's a popular target for scammers and crackers.

My personal assumption is that the average people believes Gmail to be secure and reliable. Due to that, when people receive a spam or phishing email from a Gmail address it might give the spam just a little more weigh to the unsuspecting user as a legit email since it's coming from gmail.com instead of something@obviouslyfake.evildomain.ru which people would not trust.

I love gmail, but simply because it allows me to easily disregard email. I gave up on email about 2 years ago. Now I essentially have a white list of email addresses that get forwarded to my phone, and the other few hundred emails I get a day just languish in 4 or 5 gmail accounts. I even filled a gmail account once.

Every once in a while I will skim the list of recent email, but, meh... I don't really need to hear from anyone via email.

i love gmail.

it's so worry free. i love the threading, and as someone who doesn't use email for more than the average soccer mom would, its fucking fantastic.

i got it as soon as the beta testers were able to send out invites, and i've been in love ever since.

Posted by SaraBellum I've been using Gmail since 2004, and I've never had a problem with it, even when I was getting 20 or 30 emails a day from a Craigslist ad and most of them were titled "LOLcats". Stop failing at apartments, email, and zombies is what I'm saying. <3

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Posted by trent My personal assumption is that the average people believes Gmail to be secure and reliable. Due to that, when people receive a spam or phishing email from a Gmail address it might give the spam just a little more weigh to the unsuspecting user as a legit email since it's coming from gmail.com instead of something@obviouslyfake.evildomain.ru which people would not trust.

that is a silly assumption.

there's plenty of "professional" popular domains one could use

gmail.com
hotmail.com
live.com
yahoo.com
aol.com
basically any *.edu

Posted by Jeff! that is a silly assumption. there's plenty of "professional" popular domains one could use gmail.com hotmail.com live.com yahoo.com aol.com basically any *.edu

And that's a silly post. I didn't mention other common email providers because Debi asked specifically about Gmail. Yah, I think we all know those other ones exist. I don't even get your point.

I'd like to hear your alternate theory on why from Debi's perspective Craigslist scam emails she receives often come from Gmail account. Also, please try to make it 'silly'. This thread is turning into a good time.

Bah, when I see something coming from a gmail account, I assume that it is bullshit because it is NOT professional.

I didn't know grown men used the word "silly"

Posted by Esoterik I didn't know grown men used the word "silly"

Well that's just silly.

Posted by trent I'd like to hear your alternate theory on why from Debi's perspective Craigslist scam emails she receives often come from Gmail account. Also, please try to make it 'silly'. This thread is turning into a good time.

i would like to think its because each on of their scams get nicely placed into "conversations"

much easier to keep track of that way ;)