GMail is dead! Long live SBC Yahoo! DSL!

September 29, 2004

After all the problems that I have had with GMail, I’ve finally decided to ditch it. I got tired of sending messages, waiting, getting a “Could not send message” error and then looking in my Sent folder and seeing a copy of the message. Did it send or not?

I don’t know why I hadn’t explored this option in the past but I’ve had SBC DSL since it came to our area several years ago. A couple of years ago, SBC teamed up with Yahoo! for SBC Yahoo! DSL service. As part of the combined service, you get access some of Yahoo!’s premium services.

In this case, the part I like most is their premium email service. Thanks in part to GMail, Yahoo! bumped up their storage to 2GB, twice that of GMail. In addition, I can create 10 sub-accounts, each with a 100MB limit. Perfect for other members of the family. Also, one huge feature that I love once I found it is that I can use Yahoo! Mail to fully manage my personal email address. Sure, other email apps allow you to change the Reply To address to whatever you want, but Yahoo! Mail now allows me to associate my personal email address to my account and then send email from that account. It is now like a much more robust version of www.Mail2Web.com. Not to mention all of the Contact and Calendar integration!

So, I’ve got some GMail invites to give away if you are interested.

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Posted by Matt Smith | Filed Under General, Google 

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3 Responses to “GMail is dead! Long live SBC Yahoo! DSL!”

  1. Amit on October 9th, 2004 4:30 pm

    Hi … I am looking for gmail invitation … do you have any …
    Thank you

  2. Matt on October 14th, 2004 8:38 am

    Yes, I do. Please see this post: http://www.swoofware.com/index.php?p=12

  3. drmthtr on October 5th, 2005 7:55 pm

    I have never had an issue with Gmail…interesting that you had so many problems…

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