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01-30-2005, 05:35 PM
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Dream email service
If you could design your (theoretically possible) dream email serivice what would it be?
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01-30-2005, 06:22 PM
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Umm... One that would work with every IM client(so I don't need multiple e-mails, one for yahoo, AIM, MSN, etc), Web interface and POP3 capabilities, large storage so I don't ever have to worry about running out, excellent junk mail filters, no attachment size limit... Guess that's about it. That along with the normal Folders/tags or whatever system they may use to organize the e-mail.
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01-30-2005, 06:25 PM
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For web mail interfaces, it's hard to beat Gmail.
For regular mail, IMAP + Thunderbird + 100MB is all what I need. So my dream mail services are already there 
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01-30-2005, 08:44 PM
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Whats IMAP?
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01-30-2005, 08:58 PM
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Gmail's gotten very close to everything I want - with a minor comment on replying/forwarding interface on their website email service.
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01-30-2005, 09:29 PM
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I agree with you Kram. I love everything about Gmail except the reply/forward webmail interface. I wish when you hit replay or forward that it would clean up the screen a bit. I feel like im inserting text into an old email or soemthing.
PS-The gmail notifier is a great tool, especially if you integrate it into Firefox. |
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01-30-2005, 10:23 PM
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^can you explain what you mean about the reply/forward problem?
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01-30-2005, 10:45 PM
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01-30-2005, 11:14 PM
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only gave my gmail addrss out to 10 personal friends, and within 2 months im recieving 10 spam ad emails per day.
take that away and ill be dreaming |
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01-30-2005, 11:51 PM
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Are they going to your spam folder?
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01-31-2005, 12:15 AM
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yes, but whenever i get stuff in my spam folder it is still a hassle because i have to scan through it because sometimes mail that i want to get gets sent there
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01-31-2005, 12:56 AM
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Well, an email service cant stop spam mail from being sent to you. Wouldnt that be bad because then it might mistake something for spam and youd never get it.
What would you like as an alternative? |
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01-31-2005, 12:59 AM
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01-31-2005, 01:01 AM
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01-31-2005, 01:05 AM
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So what I mean is something that could actually be done. If you can think of a way that a computer could know what was spam and what wasnt, without ever making a mistake, then please post it. I dont mean post the software code, just what the computer would do or look for. |
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01-31-2005, 01:25 AM
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maybe the computer would need AI, so it can learn your personality, and what emails you would wantto keep, and hwat you would deem as spam.
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01-31-2005, 01:57 AM
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Hotmail works great for me. I don't know what I'd change. I have a Yahoo and Gmail account but they are junk mail accounts.
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01-31-2005, 11:39 AM
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The reason I posted this thread is because I was thinking, although I dont know for sure if I'll do it, but I would like to create my own email service, once I know how to program, well. I figured that scince there are so many good email services out there right now, the only way to come up with something better, is to ask the general public what they want, and PCMech is one great place to do that. Thanks for all your input and if you have any more suggestions, then post them. Last edited by Punked Out Comp; 01-31-2005 at 11:42 AM. |
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01-31-2005, 11:43 AM
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I quite like my email/email client already: its fast, customisable, feature rich, RSS feeds, no spam, folders, labels, colouring etc.
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