SillyDog701 • What do you think about Gmail

by **Shark Daddy** » Wed 23 Jun, 2004 11:06 pm

I have a Gmail account and I like it; lots of interesting and refreshing ideas in webmail. The key word there of course is webmail; because of the nature of Gmail's structure, I can't access it from a client, which really bugs me.

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by **Don_HH2K** » Thu 24 Jun, 2004 6:44 am

Does anyone know if Google has any plans to bring Webmail to POP or IMAP so that it ca be used in a mail client?

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by **Wellander** » Fri 25 Jun, 2004 4:28 pm

Hi,.
How is the User Interface?
Pretty?
Ugly?

by **beanboy89** » Fri 25 Jun, 2004 5:53 pm

Wellander wrote:Hi,.
How is the User Interface?
Pretty?
Ugly?

I find Gmail to have a good, easy to navigate interface. The interface also loads very fast.
Gmail Screenshot

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by **Don_HH2K** » Fri 25 Jun, 2004 6:12 pm

Looks like generic Google.

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by **DJGM** » Fri 25 Jun, 2004 6:24 pm

dluchini30 wrote:Looks like generic Google.

IMO, it looks very similar how YahooMail used to look . . .

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by **Andrew T.** » Fri 25 Jun, 2004 9:49 pm

From what I have seen and heard, the Gmail interface would appear to offer the virtues of speed and simplicity, like Google itself.

I'm naturally curious about Gmail, although I haven't yet had the opportunity to try it myself. There is no way whatsoever that I could come close to filling 1GB of e-mail storage space. I wasn't even close to filling up my 4MB Yahoo inbox before the service was upgraded a number of days ago.

According to Google's "About Gmail" page, the service currently supports the following browsers:

It's good that Netscape, Mozilla, and Firefox have all been certified and approved. It is interesting, though, that the minimum Internet Explorer version specified (5.5, which dates back to 2000) is much older and more out-of-date than the minimum versions specifed for the Gecko-based browsers. Additionally, the discontinued Mac version of IE is not supported.

By the way, the old version of Yahoo Mail is still available in a way. You are redirected to a link to it if you access Yahoo Mail with a very old browser (like Netscape 3.04) or with JavaScript disabled.

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by **Don_HH2K** » Fri 25 Jun, 2004 10:14 pm

Why would it need such newer browsers? I have found that anything that requires Netscape 7.1 works fine in 6.1 which I use in slow PC environments.

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by **beanboy89** » Fri 25 Jun, 2004 11:05 pm

dluchini30 wrote:Why would it need such newer browsers? I have found that anything that requires Netscape 7.1 works fine in 6.1 which I use in slow PC environments.

I don't know about Netscape 6.1(I guess it would work), but I have logged in to my Gmail account using Netscape 7.02 without any problems, although it isn't officaly "supported" by Google.

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by **TxsChef** » Sun 01 Aug, 2004 9:31 pm

I've been using gmail for a little over a month now, and it is fast and easy to use. Since it is still in beta, there are more features yet to come. I have no problems with any of the browsers or O/S's I have logged in with.
I am wondering if it will continue to remain free. I would like to transfer all my email accounts to gmail. I leave a tab with it open and as soon as there is new mail, it shows the number of new emails that have arrived. It is not a memory hog like some mail programs with notifiers.
I love it!

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by **Mr. Jazz** » Sun 05 Sep, 2004 5:50 am

I love Gmail, if anyone wants an invite i got 2 im never gonna use, my priorties with anything on a computer are speed, organization (as in easy to get around and find things) and a clean look, im looking forward to WinLH

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by **Edward** » Sun 05 Sep, 2004 2:46 pm

Comcast recently increased the mailbox size limit for its users from 10 Mb to 250 Mb per e-mail address. Since each customer is allowed up to seven e-mail addresses on their account, that adds up to a total of 1.75 Gb of storage.

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by Al » Sun 05 Sep, 2004 3:44 pm

Mr. Jazz wrote:I love Gmail, if anyone wants an invite i got 2 im never gonna use, my priorties with anything on a computer are speed, organization (as in easy to get around and find things) and a clean look, im looking forward to WinLH

Um can I have an invite???

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by **Lorraine** » Wed 08 Sep, 2004 4:04 pm

Antony:
I have HOtmail and Yahoo, I haven't looked in Yahoo for a few months,
must check it, but in Hotmail, I never get any spam, I have it filtered, only people in my address book can send me email.
It's great.
-Lorraine

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by **north450** » Sun 28 Nov, 2004 8:12 pm

http://www.spymac.com/
Here they give 1 gb email space.
Its not bad.
if you register dont bother filling all the questions ,
leave them blank just the necessary ones.

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