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[Rewrite]

I still use my Yahoo! Mail because I've had it for years and it's the primary e-mail I always give out.

 

[sykoex]

I'll always love Gmail not only because it's a great client, but I'm pretty sure it got me laid. I exchanged emails with a girl in class back when gmail accounts were still rare and she was pretty impressed. We ended up dating for 5 months.

 

[M3wThr33]

My gmail is in my real name.
My yahoo is in my internet name.

That way I can keep the two separate and not have to resort to telling people how to spell M3wThr33 in real life.

Oh yeah, and Yahoo 360 got me laid twice.

 

[Grimmy]

I just switched from Yahoo! to Gmail too, since I just got a Blackberry Bold and needed the gmail's POP and IMAP capabilities (without paying!). So far, so great!

 

[Souldriver]

Interface? Who cares about the interface when Gmail is a virtual storage box!


Pics of the current yahoo interface?

 

[Scrow]

wow, it really is trying to look like an application.

 

[Ryu1999]

The single best feature of Gmail is in-browser chat.

More and more people start using Gmail and thus you can just chat 'm up a lot of the time.

I love Gmail.

99% of people who use the chat don't realize there's a separate application :facepalm:

Google Talk ftw

 

[Xrenity]

99% of people who use the chat don't realize there's a separate application :facepalm:

Google Talk ftw

I use the app at home, but at school in-browser chat is really nifty.
And people who don't use/want to use the application are still online for chat a lot of the time, which is very handy sometimes.

 

[snacknuts]

I absolutely love Gmail. I've been using it since the beginning and have never looked back. Why anyone would want to use anything else is mind-boggling to me. When I meet people who don't know anything about it, I give them a quick demonstration and they're usually sold on it.

There are other applications I like just fine, but until someone else copies the Gmail conversation system, I'm not going anywhere.

 

[tak]

I got too much shit to switch.

My main reason for not switching. Plus, I like Yahoo's interface a lot more, and I love the ability to check other POP accounts with it. The organizing features are also a plus.

I'm just glad Yahoo stopped putting small Yahoo ads at the bottom of emails.

 

[RiskyChris]

You can even sign into your AIM account from the in-browser chat applet.

So awesome.

Haha, no kidding? That's awesome.

I use gmail, my school email + thunderbird.

 

[tak]

so currently im in the phase of switching, and since i didn't use my Gmail for ages, it has tons of spam! how do i get rid of that shit? marking it as spam doesn't help, is there soem other way?

thanks!

also, how do i more my personal yahoo folder i created to Gmail? is it possible?

thanks!

I would appreciate an answer to this to. I get a lot of spam at my gmail account. I don't understand where it comes from. I've never given my gmail address out on the internet.

I haven't had any luck marking them as spam either.

 

[bggrthnjsus]

i thought everybody already did

 

[marwan]

finally switched to Gmail and i love it!, but please i need help on how to move my inbox messages, and most importantly my private folders. Is there an application that does that for you? or should i do it the prehistoric way by creating a folder in Gmail and forwarding all email to Gmail then moving them to my "personal folder"?

 

[jakncoke]

I did in like Jan of 2007, now the only time I even consider going to Yahoo is for fantasy sports.

 

[Phoenix]

Yahoo mail is the runner up to Hotmail as the spam king of free mail. Once GMail became available I switched to it, never had a spam problem and simply stopped checking my Yahoo email account.

 

[Rewrite]

I think I must be the only one who doesn't get spam from using Yahoo! Mail.

 

[Phoenix]

I think I must be the only one who doesn't get spam from using Yahoo! Mail.

You must be the one sending all this shit :lol

 

[Rewrite]

You must be the one sending all this shit :lol

:lol :lol Maybe.

 

[jax (old)]

um, I kind of hate my gmail. You can't even sort by sender or something which is something you can do so easily with yahoo. Was a real pain in the ass to clean up.

I'm sure I'm using it wrong so someone tell me how to sort by sender and or create folders so you can organise that shit. Right now, I colourise label them but its a mess. I want to move them to a different folder


* my yahoo account is very spam free.

 

[marwan]

You must be the one sending all this shit :lol

:lol :lol :lol

 

[Gossack]

I switched to Gmail a while ago, it's great. :B

 

[Osaka]

Why are you avoiding this Gary?

 

[jax (old)]

um, I kind of hate my gmail. You can't even sort by sender or something which is something you can do so easily with yahoo. Was a real pain in the ass to clean up.

I'm sure I'm using it wrong so someone tell me how to sort by sender and or create folders so you can organise that shit. Right now, I colourise label them but its a mess. I want to move them to a different folder


* my yahoo account is very spam free.

see the yahoo image someone attached. you can click on the top tabs (FROM/SUBJECT/DATE) and its sort it out, basically functions like outlook - how do you do this in gmail? Its so dumb in a lot of ways.

 

[Ceres]

see the yahoo image someone attached. you can click on the top tabs (FROM/SUBJECT/DATE) and its sort it out, basically functions like outlook - how do you do this in gmail? Its so dumb in a lot of ways.

type "someone@email.com" and hit Search Mail.

 

[Variable]

I would use Gmail, but I can't get a reasonable email address for it, all versions of my name that sound respectable have been taken.

 

[Souldriver]

type "someone@email.com" and hit Search Mail.

Although that's nice to find specific users' mail, that's not exactly what he asked for. Maybe he wants to actually have all the mails ordered by sender.

Either way, Yahoo! has a spotlight like search engine which updates search queries in real time.

 

[marwan]

guys, seriously, how do move personal folders to yahoo(if that's actually possible), and why cant i figure out a way to create personal folders on Gmail?

 

[marwan]

sorry, so Labels on Gmail are custom/personal folders? sorry im new to the G interface.

 

[Souldriver]

I think I must be the only one who doesn't get spam from using Yahoo! Mail.

I get about 1 spam mail every two days. Still annoying, when the Mozilla Notifier shows the envelope I go all "yay mail!", to find out its for a penis enlargement.

I don't get spam from Gmail, but I never use that account for anything, so there's no record of activity on there, which maybe an explanation for the lack of spam too (apart from the good spam filter). My Hotmail account used to be swarmed with spam. Like 50 Mails a day. Now I only get one spam mail a week: the weekly mail from Windows Live Team. Can't these fuckers just leave us alone. Typical Microsoft. Pushing their bullshit on internet users.

 

[jax (old)]

still no useful replies. I guess I was right. Gmail's usability is fucking atrocious. Not being to move stuff into folders to "clean things" up makes it a long messed up coloured labelly POS. Ultimately the conversation thing in Gmail is so casual, like MSN - hard to find the exact thing you need especially if its buried in the middle of a long discussion stream.

I really love my yahoo account - both my yahoo and MSN account are also surprising spam free.

 

[marwan]

give it time, im sure gmail will add feature and enhance it's interface.

 

[Davidion]

Gmail is fantastic. I wish it had an options for folders (or at least better layout/design for the category access), but other than that I've little to no complaints.

I see little to no reason to use other webmail clients.

 

[gutshot]

I think a better question would have been "who hasn't switched from Yahoo mail to Gmail?"

 

[jenov4]

still no useful replies. I guess I was right. Gmail's usability is fucking atrocious. Not being to move stuff into folders to "clean things" up makes it a long messed up coloured labelly POS. Ultimately the conversation thing in Gmail is so casual, like MSN - hard to find the exact thing you need especially if its buried in the middle of a long discussion stream.

I really love my yahoo account - both my yahoo and MSN account are also surprising spam free.

Eh? That's what the archive button is for. The beauty of labels is that email messages can have more than one. You can't put emails in multiple folders.

 

[jax (old)]

Eh? That's what the archive button is for. The beauty of labels is that email messages can have more than one. You can't put emails in multiple folders.

with something like outlook/yahoo - you don't have to. Yon can sort into folders, then within in, subject/date..etc. This is how it should work. I'll stick to yahoo til gmail gets to the 21st century.

 

[jenov4]

with something like outlook/yahoo - you don't have to. Yon can sort into folders, then within in, subject/date..etc. This is how it should work. I'll stick to yahoo til gmail gets to the 21st century.

Everyone's different, I much prefer putting multiple labels on my stuff then dragging them into folders. And yes, you can sort in gmail. Just because gmail does things differently, it doesn't mean they're behind the times. Sheesh.

 

[zhenming]

I use both, on for whatever another for professional stuff.

 

[aku:jiki]

still no useful replies. I guess I was right. Gmail's usability is fucking atrocious. Not being to move stuff into folders to "clean things" up makes it a long messed up coloured labelly POS. Ultimately the conversation thing in Gmail is so casual, like MSN - hard to find the exact thing you need especially if its buried in the middle of a long discussion stream.

I really love my yahoo account - both my yahoo and MSN account are also surprising spam free.

Thing is, like other people said, you don't need that kind of thinking with Gmail.

I was exactly like you and wanted to keep my emails sorted in a orderly manner for easy finding, then I found that too much of a hassle with Gmail and just stopped doing anything. I just take emails, reply and leave it at that and now when I need to find something I just use the search box. I can find anything in a second like that.

It works perfectly, and I don't have to spend another second of my life on this earth sorting virtual letters into virtual folders. It's the kind of chore that should've gone away and really shouldn't be missed now that we don't need it. Life should be spent on the actual conversations in the mails, at most.

 

[snacknuts]

Thing is, like other people said, you don't need that kind of thinking with Gmail.

I was exactly like you and wanted to keep my emails sorted in a orderly manner for easy finding, then I found that too much of a hassle with Gmail and just stopped doing anything. I just take emails, reply and leave it at that and now when I need to find something I just use the search box. I can find anything in a second like that.

It works perfectly, and I don't have to spend another second of my life on this earth sorting virtual letters into virtual folders. It's the kind of chore that should've gone away and really shouldn't be missed now that we don't need it. Life should be spent on the actual conversations in the mails, at most.

Indeed. I can't believe people are seriously complaining about the inability to put a message into one place and one place only.

 

[marwan]

anyone using Gmail application for their symbian smart phone? it works great and all, but i can't seem to find a way to attach a file! WTF?

 

[Phoenix]

Indeed. I can't believe people are seriously complaining about the inability to put a message into one place and one place only.

Its all about user training. People have been trained to believe that neat little folders are the way that a good mail application should work, but its not if you have an engine that can find things in trivially short amounts of time or group by smart folders or similar. There isn't really anything wrong with the Google interface unless your brain thinks everything should operate like Outlook.

 

[Haly]

I agree Yahoo! looks nice but in terms of functionality, Gmail wins.