gmail---storage or e-mail?

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With all the hooplah surrounding the massive storage capacity of the
Gmail accounts, I am finding its actual e-mail capabilities wanting at
best.

I really don't like how the contacts selection works. If I want to
forward a message to some people I have to know who they are and enter
their nickname manually. I ought to be able to view a list and check
the ones I want. There is no provision for creating mailing lists,
although there is a cheesy workaround to that.

I like the newest messages in the Inbox to be at the bottom of the list,
not at the top. I can't seem to arrange them that way.

It seems to me Gmail is better suited as a storage depository rather
than an actual e-mail program. Any comments?
 
badgolferman said:
It seems to me Gmail is better suited as a storage depository
rather than an actual e-mail program. Any comments?
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You're free to not use it if you don't like it :-)

I personally don't have too stringent requirements from a webmail
service, so GMail works fine for me. There's always room for
improvement, of course (as the contact list thing you mention).

Regards,
Wald
 
badgolferman wrote:

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It seems to me Gmail is better suited as a storage depository rather
than an actual e-mail program. Any comments?
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Beware - I had a gmail account and used it as a storage depository for 3
months, then one day my password stopped working, and my 7 emails to
gmail support resulted in computer-generated replies only. I lost
hundreds of valuable documents. If you are going to do this, have a
second account somewhere else for a backup!
 
With all the hooplah surrounding the massive storage capacity of the
Gmail accounts, I am finding its actual e-mail capabilities wanting at
best.

I really don't like how the contacts selection works. If I want to
forward a message to some people I have to know who they are and enter
their nickname manually. I ought to be able to view a list and check
the ones I want. There is no provision for creating mailing lists,
although there is a cheesy workaround to that.

I like the newest messages in the Inbox to be at the bottom of the list,
not at the top. I can't seem to arrange them that way.

It seems to me Gmail is better suited as a storage depository rather
than an actual e-mail program. Any comments?
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The clue is in the name...BETA as in test version, not all features.
 
I've read in several places that Google staff does some use monitoring,
and if you're using Gmail as something other than the intended email use
(such as a data storage facility), you lose your gmail account and
privileges. (Big bro still watches -- occassionally!)

Steve . . .
 
Steve said:
I've read in several places that Google staff does some use monitoring,
and if you're using Gmail as something other than the intended email use
(such as a data storage facility), you lose your gmail account and
privileges. (Big bro still watches -- occassionally!)

Steve . . .
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Paul:
This is the first time I've encountered a first-person account of anyone
losing a gmail account through use of it as a storage medium. Were you
perchange using any third-party app, such as gmail drive?

Daze
 
Daze said:
Paul:
This is the first time I've encountered a first-person account of anyone
losing a gmail account through use of it as a storage medium. Were you
perchange using any third-party app, such as gmail drive?

Daze
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No. Nor did I have multiple accts., or otherwise violate the TOS. The
company is just growing too fast.
 
Paul said:
No. Nor did I have multiple accts., or otherwise violate the TOS. The
company is just growing too fast.
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So you were just emailing attached files to yourself to store?
 
Daze said:
So you were just emailing attached files to yourself to store?
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Yes. These were mostly old emails and text documents, nothing larger
than 250kb., and nothing that could cause offense.
 
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