is gmail dominating the email space or what?

[Saint Nick]

Hehe...I got first initial middle initial last name at gmail dot com. So glad!

 

[Demo24]

My college switched to gmail from an old nortell system, and it was a godsend! Very easy to share stuff amongst professors, students, etc. A lot of my syllabus's came from the docs and thus were updated when schedules changed. It was annoying when google implemented privacy settings and I can no longer long into 2 accounts in the same browser, so I just made chrome my alternate email browser.

 

[RavenSEAL]

Anyone that doesn't use Gmail is a failure to society

 

[Jeffg010]

I use yahoo but really don't check it any more. I only use it for sign up stuff that requires E-mail. If people want to message me they need to go through facebook.

 

[Gooberlx2]

I also hate that I can't log into my VT account (now managed by Google) and Youtube at the same time, because they're different accounts. For various privacy reasons I don't want them all linked together. But it makes browsing annoying.

Something that can be set in google's management console. I'm guessing they just don't want vt.edu emails associated with the myriad of garbage and bad ideas students would post to blogs and youtube.

 

[dwell]

User bases of this time last year:

1. Yahoo Mail : 72.8 million
2. Hotmail : 48.5 million
3. Gmail : 25.1 million
4. Inbox.com : 7.4 million
5. Me.com : 3.1 million
6. Outlook.com : 1.9 million

 

[Patranus]

Gmail is for hipsters.

 

[Doppel]

I got a firstinitiallastname@hotmail.com

And my last name is *very* common in Ireland...which is why I get daily emails from Irish websites and password resets thinking I'm somebody else.

:|

Nice. Even tho my hotmail is from the late 90's I had to mix things up a bit.

 

[Doppel]

same. no dots in the middle, neither. fuck yeah

This. I do get an email about every week or maybe two a week from the wrong person and it is very annoying that some idiot used my account by mistake to sign up for a bunch of political stuff that I am still creating filters for!

 

[ViviTheMage]

firstname@lastname.com for professionally stuff

otherwise gmail for everything - 99%

 

[Triumph]

i don't even like the Gmail interface. I am much happier with the standard Outlook or POP mail inbox, where things aren't grouped in "conversations" and I have a reading pane next to the inbox pane. And searching by sender, date, or topic is impossible. Haven't figured out how to organize it like that.

 

[Ms. DICKINSON]

My secondary hotmail account got hacked in early 2000. The main one was created in '97. I abandoned all for yahoo.

 

[zinfamous]

Gmail is for hipsters.

no, that would be @aol

 

[zinfamous]

This. I do get an email about every week or maybe two a week from the wrong person and it is very annoying that some idiot used my account by mistake to sign up for a bunch of political stuff that I am still creating filters for!

talk about pro, my work email is: firstname@[major university where I work].edu

started here almost exactly three years ago, and submitted that as my first request.

 

[silverpig]

firstname.lastname@gmail is my primary address

I also have silverpig@gmail as my internet website sign up email for sites I care about, and some random hotmail account for internet site sign ups that I don't care about (spam catcher). Most of my old email accounts forward to firstname.lastname@gmail though

 

[BrokenVisage]

User bases of this time last year:

1. Yahoo Mail : 72.8 million
2. Hotmail : 48.5 million
3. Gmail : 25.1 million
4. Inbox.com : 7.4 million
5. Me.com : 3.1 million
6. Outlook.com : 1.9 million

Damn Gmail, where you at bitch?

 

[silverpig]

i don't even like the Gmail interface. I am much happier with the standard Outlook or POP mail inbox, where things aren't grouped in "conversations" and I have a reading pane next to the inbox pane. And searching by sender, date, or topic is impossible. Haven't figured out how to organize it like that.

There's a split pane view plugin for gmail. And gmail search is fantastic.

Pretty sure you can make the view not as conversations too.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I have a gmail I use for my domains. I figure if there was something wrong with my domains where I needed email to go to the authoriative contact, it would kinda suck if the address is using one of those domains.

Everything else, I use my own server/domains.

I wonder though, how gmail and other companies actually afford to offer free email. That's a shit ton of bandwidth and disk space considering there are billions if trillions of accounts and they probably average a gig or so of used space.

 

[vi edit]

i don't even like the Gmail interface. I am much happier with the standard Outlook or POP mail inbox, where things aren't grouped in "conversations" and I have a reading pane next to the inbox pane. And searching by sender, date, or topic is impossible. Haven't figured out how to organize it like that.

Yeh, I had a gmail account when it first came out and never took a shine to it's interface either. It just felt disjointed to me. With Hotmail I also get a 25 gig skydrive account for hosting pictures and documents that are easily accessible and upload capable from my iphone with the windows messenger client. As an added bonus my passport login for things like bing cash back (even though that's dead) and my xbox live account are also linked to it.

Couple that with a fairly "professional" looking address that I was able to reserve back in '96 or '97 and it just works well for what I need.

 

[SparkyJJO]

i don't even like the Gmail interface. I am much happier with the standard Outlook or POP mail inbox, where things aren't grouped in "conversations" and I have a reading pane next to the inbox pane. And searching by sender, date, or topic is impossible. Haven't figured out how to organize it like that.

Sounds like you fail at using the internet

 

[Triumph]

There's a split pane view plugin for gmail. And gmail search is fantastic.

Pretty sure you can make the view not as conversations too.

I don't do plugins. And I'm not looking for search, I'm looking for organization. In Outlook, I simply click on the header to sort. I can't be the only person that has noticed this. What exactly is it that Gmail does particularly well? When it started, you had access to large amounts of storage space. That was the big draw. Other than being a gmail fanboy, what's it do special otherwise?

Sounds like you fail at using the internet

Listen Sparky, I've been using this internet since 1993, it worked fine the way it was for me then and I ain't changin'!

 

[cronos]

I don't do plugins. And I'm not looking for search, I'm looking for organization. In Outlook, I simply click on the header to sort. I can't be the only person that has noticed this. What exactly is it that Gmail does particularly well? When it started, you had access to large amounts of storage space. That was the big draw. Other than being a gmail fanboy, what's it do special otherwise?

Right off the bat GMail specifically was using the motto: "search, don't sort", so clearly it's not for you. There's no point in trying so hard to find what's so special about it if after 7 years you haven't found any of its features as useful. Just leave it alone and use something else.

 

[Leros]

Yeh, I had a gmail account when it first came out and never took a shine to it's interface either. It just felt disjointed to me. With Hotmail I also get a 25 gig skydrive account for hosting pictures and documents that are easily accessible and upload capable from my iphone with the windows messenger client. As an added bonus my passport login for things like bing cash back (even though that's dead) and my xbox live account are also linked to it.

Couple that with a fairly "professional" looking address that I was able to reserve back in '96 or '97 and it just works well for what I need.

I think its a bad idea to use anything but gmail or a custom domain for a "professional" looking email. People "look down" on people with Hotmail addresses. Stupid, but true.

For example, if you had two equal resumes, one with a hotmail address and one with a gmail address, I think most people would think the gmail resume was a more savvy candidate.

 

[Locut0s]

Gmail is fantastic! Though as others have mentioned Yahoo and Hotmail still seem to have a lot more users. I use hotmail as a junk mail account for registering with sites I'm not serious about or entering contests and the like. They have gotten a lot better over the years (especially their junk mail filter which never seemed to catch anything, but is still far behind Gmails) but I still find them light years behind Gmail usability wise, but that may be just cause I don't use them. No idea why Yahoo is still No1, could be due to foreign markets?

 

[Locut0s]

I think its a bad idea to use anything but gmail or a custom domain for a "professional" looking email. People "look down" on people with Hotmail addresses. Stupid, but true.

For example, if you had two equal resumes, one with a hotmail address and one with a gmail address, I think most people would think the gmail resume was a more savvy candidate.

I remember seeing a resume some kid sent in once with I_Have_Elephantiasis@hotmail.com or something to that effect.