GMail--Good, bad, what? Give me the word, peeps.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

I must admit, it looks so sleek that I'm thinking of trading in my Yahoo! accounts for it, perhaps merging my "real" (personal) e-mail address as well, since I know it can pick up other e-mal clients if you tell it to. Any GMail users here? What's the word?

ETA: I have GMail now. This thing is fascinating me. :thumbsup:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

1. I really like it...

Only thing that bugs me is that all emails from one person are lumped together.
Duckie

[Omphaloskepsis]

2. I have used it for years...

It is very slick.. It has excellent spam filtering. I would recommend the switch.

[Longhorn]

3. My daughters swear by it!

I have an account but I don't feel like changing my email address. However, you can add it to your pop3 servers which Yahoo wouldn't let me do without paying. So I don't have to logon to gmail to get any mail that goes there.

They like it because an email conversation is more like a chat. If I understand correctly, the same email is bumped to the top with new replies added so it is easier to keep track of an ongoing conversation. It has a pretty decent spam filter, too.

[MissB]

4. I love the grouping of conversations.

I don't have the same problem that Ducky has, where apparently all of her replies from one person get grouped together. Mine are grouped according to the title of the email, so conversations stay together. And when a new email is added to the conversation, it is bumped to the top.

And the spam filter works much better than the one that screens my comcast email.

[Blue-Jay]

5. It's the best. No complaints at all.

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. Ah loves it

It lets the user control everything — unlike other e-mail software I've used, whose designers seem to think all we care about are smilies.

Recommended. :thumbsup:

[deucemagnet]

7. Love it!

The spam filter is great. It works great with the Outlook Express client, although I might switch over to Thunderbird. :thumbsup:

[KitchenWitch]

15. I use T-Bird as my client and it plays well with Gmail!

:)

[Left Is Write]

8. I love my gmail. Head and shoulders above Yahoo! mail.

[av8rdave]

9. I like it, but don't trade in any of your existing accounts...

My son turned me on to it. The real beauty of it is that it will manage all of your other e-mail accounts. So you can check all of your e-mail from the gmail site. What's more, if you write to or reply to anyone, you can "send" from your original e-mail accounts, even though you're doing it in gmail.

[Longhorn]

10. I do that from my Roadrunner account but maybe I should do it in reverse

from my gmail account. When I'm at work, I have to check my home and school webmail accounts (I'm a teacher) separately and if I forget and leave my laptop open, I can't read my home emails because they've already been downloaded to my laptop. If I had them all feed to my gmail account, I could check all of them at once! Then I could also gradually move more mail to the gmail account.

Thanks for the suggestion! :hi:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

11. I hooked up my RoadRunner account to it, and, lo and behold,

it took ALL of my inbox messages and put them in the GMail inbox. :wow: It's like RoadRunner got sexed-up!

[KitchenWitch]

12. LOVE LOVE LOVE the Gmail.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

16. It's making me squeal with excitement.

Wooooooooo!

[Reverend_Smitty]

13. I use it, I like it and...

there's a neat little firefox plugin that alerts you when you have a new e-mail

[havocmom]

14. I like it. Have two seperate accounts. One for sending links to good sites

to people I work with and one for dealing with people I make friends with online, but don't quite want in my regular inbox in case they turn out to freeper stalker moles ;)

[pokerfan]

17. I like it

Been using it since I switched to DSL. (I hate my cable provider but that's another story.)

Anyway my DSL probider doesn't provide POP/SMTP email and I was aware of that going in. Their "solution" was MSN (barf!) so after some research, I settled on GMail and have been happy with it ever since.

I like the virtually unlimited storage space and the fact that I can access even "saved" emails from anywhere. The grouping of emails by conversation is novel and I like it. If you don't like it, you can always disable that feature. Anyway, I use it for my most private email (family and friends) and so far it's completely spam free.

[nosillies]

18. Love it love it love it

I really love the search feature

[datasuspect]

19. i wanna have gmail's bastard love child

seriously, it is awesome.

traded ALL my hotmail accounts for gmail.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

20. Yeah, I'd do GMail as well. And I've only been a user for an hour.

:loveya:

:D

[wildhorses]

21. i keep gmail

for personal

and yahoo for business


i like gmail but yahoo feels like home

:shrug:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

22. Yahoo! was always just a spam collector for me, really.

All my sign-ups, with the exception, strangely, of DU, were on one of three Yahoo! accounts. I never got into it. GMail, now, GMail is f-iiiiiiiiii-nne.

:P

[wildhorses]

23. i am such a creature of habit

and my gmail name is nonpersonal whereas my yahoo has some of my real name in it...so only close irl people have that addy...whereas i can give anyone my gmail addy :shrug:

at least i hope that is how its working:p