Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

1. Yahoo Mail 2-factor authentication support is woefully incomplete: http://www.zdnet.com/a-half-assed-additional-factor-does-not...

2. Yahoo Mail does not enforce SSL unless you choose obscure menu options: http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=content&y=PROD_MAIL_ML&l...

- Get a 1920x1080 monitor. No, really. Decent ones are cheap and awesome. That said, sure, GMail could support other resolutions better. I have to make my window tiny in order to make Reply remotely unusable - what's your problem with it?

- I have the "Undo Send" Labs features enabled, so I can undo a lot more than your unintentional sends. I can undo my intentional but ill-considered sends, too.

- I can go to Google and search, "When is my next flight" and see (based on my GMail mail confirmation message from the airline) when it is. That's awesome. Better, that integrates with Google Now on my phone. I don't even have to SEARCH, and I see when my flight is, what terminal, what gate, whether it's delayed.

I hate to ask, but what browser are you using to access GMail?

I don't use Yahoo mail because they (used to) insert ads inside the body of your email. Which meant that if I sent an email to a friend, the footer would contain a yahoo ad.

I'm not sure if they changed it, but I don't like the idea of sending an ad along with my email. Put an ad in my user interface all you like, but not in my content.

I have to admit, I don't use Gmail for just e-mail. It's more or less my home page -- it's a portal to the people I chat with, the documents I access (on Drive) daily, and just so happens to be where I send e-mails from.

These days, (to me anyway) the fact that Gmail is an e-mail service is a little incidental.

If you're tired of the gmail interface (like I was), I'd highly recommend http://fastmail.fm.

I made the switch (moved 55k+ messages with http://protips.maxmasnick.com/export-gmail-to-fastmail-or-an...) and haven't looked back.

FastMail offers a similar infinite scroll feature. I was able to select and move several thousand messages through the web interface when I was first configuring it.

FastMail's highlights for me are:

- Really good, customizable "personalities" (alternate email addresses with their own SMPT servers, auto-BCC settings, etc.)

- Sieve support -- SO much more powerful than rules in Gmail, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_(mail_filtering_language)

- Customer support that actually responds and is super helpful in my experience

- Ability to use your own domain name(s) without all the overhead of signing up for Google Apps.

- Jabber support (not in-browser, but they do have a server that works with Adium/iChat/Pidgin)

- Very fast, modern web interface. Definitely faster than Gmail for me. Good keyboard shortcuts too (very similar to Gmail's but with a few differences).

- An archive folder that works well with the archive functionality in Mail.app and other clients.

The only thing that isn't great is search. It works ok for everything but searching within messages (i.e. from/to/subject searches are fine). I believe FastMail does have support for a lot more search operators than Gmail and can search headers as well. But I'm not an expert on the power user search features for either.

This is because I actually use the search in Mail.app on my Mac, which is actually better than Gmail's search capabilities for every search I've tried (same good results, but way faster). Obviously works great with FastMail too, and I figure it's good to have a local copy of email.

I also miss a few things from the (old) gmail interface, but I definitely like FastMail's interface better on the whole than the new compose in Gmail. Things I miss in FastMail are the mainly the ability to pop composing a message into a new window with one click and sync with the address book on my phone. Neither are deal breakers.

I actually use MailMate (http://freron.com) for the majority of my email access now. It's still a little rough around the edges but being able to compose emails in Markdown and see the entire hierarchy of a thread (not flattened into one level) is worth a bit of UX pain.