Comments on: Gmail stinks today

by: Barb

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 15:36:11 +0000

I am so tired of gmail, for the past 2 weekends it’s taken me at least 45 minutes to get to me mail and then it shuts down. I was blamming AT&T only to realize it’s gmail.

by: Danielle

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:02:58 +0000

Just thought I’d suggest Yahoo Mail if you decide to switch providers. They give you unlimited space now somehow, and do reply to my customer service requests quickly enough (sorry if this seems spammy)…

by: Tom Galloway

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:50:27 +0000

Yes.

by: Elayne Riggs

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:11:35 +0000

Doesn’t Tom Galloway work at Google?

by: Susie

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:05:22 +0000

They probably e-mailed you a response. (~_^)

by: BradyDale

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:47:06 +0000

There is a certain virtue in paying for a service, not that that always makes it work. I Yahoo! everything. My only complaint with yahoo in 8 years of near total exclusivity is that my website’s blog went down inexplicably for a week or so. To the outside world, it was down for much longer. I just quit checking. We were baffled. THEN, one day, I went to see about moving it to a new host and…
it was fine again. No trouble since.

Weird.

Anyway, yeah… unlimited email.

by: Jon Skovron

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:17:50 +0000

BTW, I totally get your frustration with the lack of Google “real person” support. But as things move more towards an open source and community built model, I think this is going to become more common. Not just with the Google Empire, but across the board.

And really, how often is a tech support rep actually helpful anyway? I was one. I know.

by: Jon Skovron

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:12:03 +0000

Here’s a great HowTo on managing multiple Gmail accounts:
http://www.z-oc.com/blog/2007/06/manage-all-your-email-accounts-with-gmail/

via LifeHacker.com

by: Jim Clarke

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:02:02 +0000

I’ve dealt with this a little before. What I did was set up another Gmail account and forwarded all of the stuff I really want to keep to it. I keep my main account relatively empty. I’ve got a few Gmail accounts set up, but only one I use as an archive. Theoretically you could set up as many “archive” accounts as you’d need for future expansion.

Just a thought.

I love The Beat, btw!

by: Ray Cornwall

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:21:13 +0000

I use fastmail.fm. I pay for the full service (about $40 per year). When there’s any problems, I can read about it on the blog, or talk to an actual human being. And I can use a domain name for my emails, so you can email me at ray at raycornwall dot com. I’ve used them for years and never regretted it. The full service comes with a nifty notepad and file hosting feature that I use to migrate different personal and work files.

by: Avi Green

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:54:32 +0000

Since Yahoo recently provided unlimited space on their mail servers, maybe it could be an idea to get an extra account from them as well in which to store a lot of mail. I have a Gmail account, but I still primarily use my Yahoo account for much of what correspondence either I, or those writing to me, do.

by: Brian Pate

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:35:45 +0000

Heidi,

Google recently added the ability to pay for more storage space for your account. You might need to consider that: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/simple-way-to-get-more-storage.html