Gmail or yahoo mail???

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I have been using yahoo for a while and when they came out with their upgrade Beta, I quickly signed in. It is much nicer but real slow (I mean slow). I know they are still tweaking it but it is getting frustrating.

I recently signed up with Gmail (google) and planning on totally migrating....but cannot tell yet how it is compared to Yahoo. My initial test shows gmail out performing yahoo andis much faster.

Anyone have Gmail for a while who can help me and shed some light?

Thank you
 
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I have Gmail and am pretty happy with it. It is a little annoying the way it groups e-mail. Everything from the forum mail has the same header so ends up being grouped together.
 
I have and use both Yahoo and Gmail, they both have their good points
and their faults as far as I am concerned, I agree with Vick the storage
with g-mail is not to my liking, so I move the articles I want to save to the appropriate folder in Yahoo, more trouble I agree however it works for me and has for over a year.
 
Have you tried creating labels in Gmail?

I did that and it kinda sorts them out...works like a folder.

After that, I just archive the messages that are in the inbox and works like Yahoo mail. Please note, I just activated my gmail today so I am not sure what other options I can do with it yet.
 
I love the "Starred" feature...makes finding pending things that I need to act on later [^]...or stuff that are really good.
 
Originally posted by Dario
<br />After that, I just archive the messages that are in the inbox and works like Yahoo mail
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With GMail, you can create a filter that will automatically archive your mail as it comes in.
 
Thanks Ron,

Somehow, I want all messages to go through the inbox and I just move them manually after I see them. I am afraid I might miss some if I use that feature.

Just a personal preference.

After a day of trial, I am sold with Gmail. It is much faster than Yahoo (Beta) which at times takes 40 seconds to login and about 20 to jump from one folder to the other.
 
Not sure about yahoo. But I use the google home page so that my gmail shows up on my home page along with the rss feed from the IPA, PMG and my news feeds.
 
I must be some kind of freak. I have exactly the opposite opinion. I've had Yahoo for years, and have had a gmail for about 1 1/2 years. I rarely look at my gmail account. To me it just seems cumbersome and won't let me work the way I want. Mainly they don't let you sort. I don't want to have to slap a label or star or whatever on everything, and I don't always want to search. I've tried using it several times since I've had the account and every time I go running back to Yahoo. And just personal taste, I find GMail's pages to be just plain ugly too look at.

One thing I did find (maybe fixed now) that was a real technical problem for me in GMail is that if you get a REALLY long email, they chop it off. There is some option to let you view the entire message, but if you do it just shows you the raw SMTP message with no formatting whatsoever. That was the main thing that drove me away from it last time as I subscribe to a service that sends out such messages daily.

I haven't tried the Yahoo Beta yet, though a friend of mine who uses both (mostly GMail) seemed to really like it. Speed doesn't worry me too much as I usually have a bunch of tabs open in FireFox and frequently hop between them - click a link in one window and immediately hop over to another waiting for the first to load.

To each his own though. I do seem to be in the minority in the Yahoo vs. GMail debate.

Originally posted by Penmonkey
<br />I have 3 gmails and I love it!!! Before that I had yahoo, it stinks. Trust me, it stinks!

If anyone wants a gmail email me and I will send you an invite (that is the only way you can get one).
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I am a Gmail person. They have some really cool toys in there (starring, for instance) but some really awesome stuff if you dig deeper - calendars for instance. Just wish they would hook into iCal on the Mac.

Word is that the upcoming Gdrive is supposed to do things with Gmail as well. We will see.
 
I am a Yahoo user. I am not saying Yahoo is leaps and bounds ahead of Gmail, just for me it is the lessor of two evils so to speak. I am on dial-up and find Yahoo no slower than Gmail and in fact find speeds better than what has been described previously. I have found I have it easier filtering out the spam with Yahoo also.

With GMail, you can create a filter that will automatically archive your mail as it comes in.
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You can have mail automatically sent to the files of your choice with Yahoo!!!!


Yahoo, Gmail, MSN, Hotmail (yes, I am sure it has it's fans!), or what have you, each have their appealing points to each individual, thus the amount of different services. What is one person's pleasure it another person's plight!
 
Originally posted by Dario
<br />Thanks Ron,

Somehow, I want all messages to go through the inbox and I just move them manually after I see them. I am afraid I might miss some if I use that feature.

Just a personal preference.

After a day of trial, I am sold with Gmail. It is much faster than Yahoo (Beta) which at times takes 40 seconds to login and about 20 to jump from one folder to the other.
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I get emails from different sources, and once in a while I get it mixed up where it came from. Sorting them with filters and achivnng them into different labels has helped me keep thing straight. It's easy to tell which label has a new message.
 
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