GMail Issues

September 16, 2004

I really want GMail to be everything to me in regards to email that Google is to in regards to searching. However, I’m struggling with my faith. GMail is the solution that I have wanted for a long time to be able to access my email history from anywhere at anytime. Previously, I downloaded all of my mail with Outlook on my laptop at home. If I was traveling, then I used Mail2Web. Mail2Web is great for quick access to the messages that haven’t been downloaded and deleted off the server. However, when I needed access to a message that I had already downloaded, I was out of luck.

With 1GB of email storage, GMail was supposed to solve all my problems in regards to accessing my email. Unfortunately, I’ve had many other problems pop up over the past several months.

- Two months or so ago, I had an issue where emails sent to my account just weren’t getting through. This went on for several days before, finally, I got a batch of emails all at one time. It included all of the test emails I had sent several days prior as well as all of the emails other people had sent to me. Granted I have my primary email account forwarded to my GMail account, but even emailing directly to my GMail account didn’t work.

- There are the times when GMail has been unavailable.

- How about those friendly JavaScript pop-ups that something didn’t work and to try again?

- Or when you type a really long reply to someone, click ‘Send’ and the little message appears in the top-right that it is sending the message. But then just hangs there. Did it send the message or not?

- I like how it builds my contact list for me from people I email, but because it only contains name and email, I still need to maintain my real contact list with all the addresses and phone numbers.

- Right now, I am trying to reply to a message but keep getting the JavaScript pop-up that it can’t. I’ve tried in different logged out and even tried in different browsers with no luck.

At this rate, I’m tempted to move over to Yahoo email. Since I am a SBC DSL customer, I have a Yahoo account that has 2GB of storage. However I’ve been reluctant to move to it because I am sure that it is dependent on me being a SBC DSL customer which I may not be for the rest of my life.

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Posted by Matt Smith | Filed Under General, Google 

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  1. Anonymous on January 28th, 2005 2:42 pm

    http://www.tweaks2k2.com/gmail/index.php

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