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Speaking of e-mail, why does Gmail show a different total number of search results depending on which 'page' you're viewing it from the search results? At least Yahoo gives the exact number. Example: http://i.imgur.com/n1qeN3i.gif
GMail is deteriorating. I loathe the new 'reduced' inline reply UI. Half the time I am searching for how to reveal the sender address or subject field because I need to change them, but GMail seems to think this is an edge use case. Today I got the new tabbed inboxes - 'Primary', 'Social' and 'Promotions'. Lots of important email is now out of view from the primary inbox and buried with unimportant crap. This is so f…
2. Click the arrow next to the Inbox label. Select your preferred inbox type. http://cl.ly/image/1Z2M0c1z3T1B
- Search. Good, fast search over 7 GB of email.
- Speed.
- Undo send.
- Multiple aliases on the same email account.
It's definitely possible to beat Gmail in the first two, these days, but importing all that email into another service takes a while, so there had better be a good case that I'll get equal or superior functionality. A demo would be nice.
Until then, I'll stick with the old compose, and probably find or write a user script to make the new one work like the old one once it goes away.
(Incidentally, Mail.app comes quite close to meeting the first two, but its search is a bit wonky, and there's no undo send.)
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...
Not having SSL as default is unfortunate, but the menu options doesn't seem very obscure to me. Turn on SSL is the correct name for the option.
GMail is deteriorating. I loathe the new 'reduced' inline reply UI. Half the time I am searching for how to reveal the sender address or subject field because I need to change them, but GMail seems to think this is an edge use case. Today I got the new tabbed inboxes - 'Primary', 'Social' and 'Promotions'. Lots of important email is now out of view from the primary inbox and buried with unimportant crap. This is so f…
Also, as mentioned below, you can revert to the un-tabbed inbox by going to the Inbox section of the settings and disabling all tabs other than Primary, or by selecting one of the split inboxes (Unread first, Priority, etc).
Disclaimer: I'm a Gmail engineer.
- 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…
My problem is this:
http://backwardcompatible.net/images/gmail.png
* top posting is useless when you have long e-mail with 6-10 points to address in it. * being able to see 7 lines at a time is my real problem * the other real problem is when I have a 100-line email with 10 points to address in it and 10th point ends on line 34, I want to be able to easily cut the remaining 66 lines that come before the signature. I know that people using GMail won't see them anyway, but there are other people not using Google Mail and they will have to look through 66 lines to see if I replied to something else as well.
There is no way to simply select those 66 lines and cut them. If I press shift+end, it selects to the end of the line. If I press shift+PageDown it scrolls the GMail page in the browser down, and I also lose sight of the cursor. Selecting it with mouse is also not straightforward, because of some weird scrolling. The text entry box is simply too small. They shouldn't have tried to fix something that was working perfectly.
I understand Google engineers are not using Firefox and they are not replying to people who use products other than GMail and they have large screens. That is precisely why they lost sight of UX issues their users have. They believe everyone uses Google products only, and maybe they just don't care about those that don't, I really don't know.
- I don't want to have Undo Send. I don't want to wait when I send an e-mail. I don't have time for that.
- So, when you are searching for next flight, you should open GMail. I thought it should be used for e-mail, not search. ;)
- Firefox. Are you implying that I should only use Chrome and GMail is not usable from other browsers?
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 fo…
It bothers me that neither fastmail or freron have full screenshots of their interface. What reason can they have to not put a tour/screenshots section on the site?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/yahoo-fight-for-users-...
The "best" email client now is one run by a non NSA-company using Ajax, so not Gmail, neither Yahoomail. Anyone knows good ones?
On the plus sides it is cheap for good amounts of storage, reliable so far, support is helpful and it is Europe (Hungary) based rather than US based.
The main negative is the lack of documentation and I can't seem to access their forums which may have closed but may have had the answers I needed and avoided an email to support. I also don't know much about the company in terms of ownership and control.
Have not encountered the slowness he is talking about.
