Comments on: Death of Gmail

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:56:29 +0000

I had lag problems with gmail as well, especially when my mail archives started to pile up. Someone suggested that it might be the speed of my connection but that wouldn't make sense even if i didn't have a residential t-1line from http://t1-connection.com. They need to fix the problems quickly or risk permanently losing a lot of users.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:12:50 +0000

It's all right, hon. You're in love and therefore incharacteristically susceptible and incapable of thinking wholly for yourself.
Getting vaguely back on topic: I haven't actually logged in to Gmail for ages because I've set up Outlook Express to check my Gmail inbox. Like you, I think the labelling functions on Gmail are what make it stand out from the crowd. I have set up a bunch of folders and message rules on Outlook but it is a bit time-consuming.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 09:29:45 +0000

Oh god… I didn't, did I? I did! Oh no…
It's that T'Other bloke. He's brainwashing me.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:06:36 +0000

“Even typing an email is now a real pain in the ass”
We're British, darling: we say “arse”.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:10:19 +0000

Aah… fair enough, I have to admit to being similarly reluctant to file things, but haven't yet really taken advantage of gails features in that respect. Still, this might help:
http://www.indev.ca/MailTags.html

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:42:33 +0000

With mine, it was the other way round – it worked ok to start with, but then just got slower and slower and eventually i realised i was wasting about 10 mins each hour waiting for my browser to unlock after the script became unresponsive. Now all seems much, much better.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:10:48 +0000

Wow, I'd never seen that either – it's pretty well hidden, isn't it.
Suw, it definitely is the chat. Has it just been introduced on your account? It appeared without warning on my account back in January or February, and I had over a month of gmail just. not. working. It was dreadful. The, just as mysteriously, it was fine again.
But hey, we all signed up knowing it's still in beta, right?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:03:18 +0000

I have to admit, I really don't like Mail. The one thing that Gmail has over all other email clients and services is that is has what they don't – labels. I hate having to file things in one place – my brain is just not that organised. If Mail did labels, I'd use it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:27:22 +0000

Why not pick up your gmail over POP with something like apple mail, Suw?
I only use the gMail web interface when i'm away from my computer, Mail is IMHO vastly superior given the choice.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:04:07 +0000

Thank you!! I looked through all the settings, but never spotted that thing at the bottom. What a stupid place to put it!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:21:59 +0000

Suw,
Scroll all the way to the bottom and you'll see a link saying “standard without chat” – try that.
anu