Comments on: Life Without Gmail?

By: Sophie

Sophie — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:56:26 +0000

informative piece there, Thanks for this.its wonderfull to see someone with a like mind.

By: tessa

tessa — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:14:29 +0000

I just found your blog on the google search engine and saw a few of your other posts that you had done . I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the great work. i will Look forward to reading more from you again.

By: Alisonnic

Alisonnic — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:30:50 +0000

Since I wrote my post last March, I switched from using POP3 with Gmail to IMAP, also on Gmail, using Thunderbird as my email client. Haven’t had any of the server timeouts you mention (knock on wood!)

Gmail’s labels feature translates to folders in Thunderbird, so I get the best of both worlds. And, unlike with POP3, I can get my email, read it, and file or delete it from many different computers. All I have to do is zip up my Thunderbird profile and copy it to a new computer, then pint Tbird to that profile to enable that computer for IMAP/Gmail.

I’ve also set up filters on Gmail’s site to sift assorted mailing list emails into appropriate folders/labels. The labels feature allows me to send a filtered email to both the Inbox and the appropriate folder, so I can scan it in Thunderbird’s Inbox and then delete it from the Inbox with a single click, while leaving it stashed in the folder in case I need it later.

So far I’m delighted with this combination.

By: 2k

2k — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:00:08 +0000

great article, but what’s missing is you never recommend another email service. Any suggestions?

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By: sopclod

sopclod — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:47:43 +0000

I use gmail in conjunction with gspace for 6.5 gigs of free online storage

By: laribus

laribus — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:56:08 +0000

If not GMail then what?

By: Captain DDL

Captain DDL — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:50:04 +0000

“All I have to say to people who whine so much over nothing is “Grow Up””

Nothing? He had emails disappearing from his account, which he intentionally saved. Maybe you need to grow up, so you can learn how to read. =)

By: Alisonnic

Alisonnic — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:52:48 +0000

>POP in Gmail sucks because.. well.. POP sucks. Reliable, yes, but what’s the point of Gmail if you’re using POP?POP in Gmail sucks because.. well.. POP sucks. Reliable, yes, but what’s the point of Gmail if you’re using POP?

POP3 sucks? Compared to web mail? Gawd. What are you smoking, buddy?

Anyway, the best thing about Gmail is that it gives you free POP3 access. If you don’t want to use POP3, then use Yahoo, which has an infinitely superior Webmail UI.

Also, Gmail does seem to have really good spam filtering. Since I mostly use POP3 to get my email, I didn’t even realized how much spam was being filtered out until I logged into the web interface one day for some reason. I thought the spammers just hadn’t found my Gmail addy until I saw the pile of junk mail in the Spam folder on gmail.com. Great filtering!