Comments on: Gmail vs. Yahoo

By: RC

RC — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:54:06 +0000

I am really not crazy about either Gmail or Yahoo personally. Yahoo especially keeps including an error message each and every time I use it that seems to be sent by Internet Explorer. Further, it has some strange message that says there is no “SOAP-ENV” and something about a payload sent to the server?? I have no clue what it is, but I have to close this stupid window each time I try to get into my mail, and it’s really annoying.

By: Erebus

Erebus — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 05:06:44 +0000

Well Yahoo! mail beta looks impressive, but it seems to lack features that Gmail is offering. POP & mail forwarding have been the most amazing features of Gmail for me. Y! offers these after you subscribe to Y! delivers, which sucks. Why can’t Yahoo! give these services without any fuss like Gmail? The advertisements are annoying, Gmail rocks in tht case.

Yahoo rocks with it’s support to RTF. Using images as signatures is a very exciting feature offered by Y! mail. Not sure about Y! mail beta, but I don’t expect any new features, compared to GMail. GMail ability to handle attachments is good, though I’m not impressed by Gmail in this case since while sending emails, the attachments are uploaded and sent simultaneously.

Y! mail beta has a better interface than Gmail. Gmail seems a little less secure with it’s vast use of Javascript - dunno about Y! beta. For now, I’m happy with GMail. But I might make the switch to Y! beta just for it’s vast Rich Text Formatting support…….will have to see what else is on offer at Y!.

By: Cloudy Thinking by Ron K. Jeffries » Blog Archive » Laszlo Mail

Cloudy Thinking by Ron K. Jeffries » Blog Archive » Laszlo Mail — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:43:17 +0000

[...] While I’m very happy (as in “in love!”) with Google mail (Gmail), I keep my eyes open. Today I signed up with LaszloMail. I’ve been following Open Laszlo, because it’s a mildly interesting attempt at creating an open source rich client. So what better way to check it out than to experiment with a Laszlo mail client? [...]

By: Chinarut

Chinarut — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:30:40 +0000

kudos to you! i love the commitment! :)

after being a Yahoo! Plus subscriber for quite a few years - I’m quite happy I switched over to Google Mail - just discovering all the nuggets of the new minimalistic paradigm you elude to has been so much fun…just discovered the trick! :)

that said, the Google team has a tough job to sort out all the feature requests.

I personally still look fwd to email/task like integration and in the meantime, trying to be clever with labels :)

Has anyone out there compiled “Gmail usage models?” - no hits on Google ;-)