GMAIL: Have your heard of it? Opinions pls.

skr80ab

i also have some gmail invites if wanted... pm me

gorilla

I use gmail with Thunderbird from Mozilla and find it very good. I haven't had any spam and because I use an email client I don't get the ads either. Every now and again I check the spam folder, but the emails in there are just marketing newsletters from places I registered my email address with and to be honest they are better off in the spam folder.;) Give gmail a go, you can always go back to your previous address.

EvilMonkey

Actually, the one HUGE thing I love about Gmail is it allows mail forwarding. I have several addresses all filtering into 1 big address. When Gmail started and I set this up, none of the freebie emails (hotmail, yahoo etc.) offered this.

ioscorpio

I've just signed up to Gmail, I haven't made up my mind yet if I prefer it to Yahoo, why is there not a scroll bar at the right side of the screen?

empfun

Gmail is super. Your email storage capacity keeps growing on a secondly basis.

And now there's Google Talk beta Google's instant messaging client.

Mr_Skint_2

Yep fine with Gmail been signed up for about 4days now very easy to use with a nice simplistic userface, all scrollbars are showing fine, also like the idea of mail forwarding with the option to keep messages on the server,notifier is a nice thought aswell.

digp

admuncher 4.7 beta filters out google ads!

Quark_2

gmail = top banana.

The reading your mail and targeting small ads down the side of the page isn't as sinister as it sounds. Just the same as when you do a google search and you get relevant ads on your results page. (actually its quite refreshing at times to see ads which are relevant to something you may be interested in).

The small textual ads are nothing like the the slow-as-**** java applet ads you get on Yahoo and the like.

If you're a bit paranoid or have something to hide then gmails not for you though.

ioscorpio

I was getting a bit worried about the privacy aspect of gmail after reading a lot of anti gmail comments after doing a search on google about comments on gmail. I still have not made up my mind whether I like it or not.

Quark_2

iomexico wrote:

I was getting a bit worried about the privacy aspect of gmail after reading a lot of anti gmail comments after doing a search on google about comments on gmail. I still have not made up my mind whether I like it or not.

Its not like there is somewhere actually there reading your emails, they just have a system which scans them, picks out keywords and puts half a dozen small textual ads which it thinks are relevant on the right hand side of the screen.

So for instance if someone emails you about a holiday. There will be 5 ads from travel agents there etc