The downside of Gmail

[Bumpsis]

I was never a big fan of g-mail. Overall, pretty good, actually biut one, big, huge flaw: lack of filters. Perhaps I just don't know how to set them up, but that's what I always liked a lot about hotmail. With hotmail, you can easily set up junk filter and your in-box gets only the e-mail from people you let in, like your contacts. Everything else goes to junk.
This would seem like such a basic function, yet g-mail doesn't have it.

Please, correct me if I'm wrong. I really would like to have a filter set up on my g-mail account as well.

 

[ctenidae]

Please, correct me if I'm wrong. I really would like to have a filter set up on my g-mail account as well.

GMail has filters- in the gear icon, settings/filters. The nice thing is, as you set up the parameters, it gives you the search result, letting you know what emails in your inbox would be affected, so you can fine tune it.

 

[Nick]

I love gmail. I wish my work would switch to Google Apps as I now totally hate Outlook.
Plus the android apps for gmail are phenomenal.

 

[marcski]

I love gmail. I wish my work would switch to Google Apps as I now totally hate Outlook.
Plus the android apps for gmail are phenomenal.

My buddy does IT for a large Insurance Co. And he just switched over a few thousand employees to gmail based email platform.

 

[bvibert]

GMail has filters- in the gear icon, settings/filters. The nice thing is, as you set up the parameters, it gives you the search result, letting you know what emails in your inbox would be affected, so you can fine tune it.

Yup, Gmails filters are one of the best things about it. I have tons setup. In the "From" field of the filter box you can put in a contact group name and the filter will apply to any email received from any contact in that group.

 

[Geoff]

Yuh. Like I'm really going to let Google see every email I send and receive. NFW.

I own my own domain and use POP/IMAP and SMTP to retrieve/send email from my ISP's server. When I delete it from the server, it's gone forever. I don't have the prying eyes of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, or the other cloud-based information suck corporations reading any of my correspondence. I'm considering bringing up my own email server so I can take my ISP out of the loop completely.

 

[Nick]

Yuh. Like I'm really going to let Google see every email I send and receive. NFW.

I own my own domain and use POP/IMAP and SMTP to retrieve/send email from my ISP's server. When I delete it from the server, it's gone forever. I don't have the prying eyes of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, or the other cloud-based information suck corporations reading any of my correspondence. I'm considering bringing up my own email server so I can take my ISP out of the loop completely.

I'm sure at some point i'll be burned for it but I feel like I just don't really care if companies see what I'm doing., especially if it keeps services free.

That said, options would be nice. How about for $10 a month or something you give users the option to disable all ads within Gmail.

 

[darent]

thanks for the tips on the Gmail filters, didn't know about filters, now I can help my android gmail junk vanish

 

[dmc]

I'm sure at some point i'll be burned for it but I feel like I just don't really care if companies see what I'm doing., especially if it keeps services free.

I agree.. And mostly they are looking at what you email to target you for marketing..
I'd rather have targeted marketing than random stuff personally..