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Date:      Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:56:52 +0000
From:      "Jeff Rollin" <jeff.rollin@gmail.com>
To:        "User Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: GMail [and other free email] and these lists?
Message-ID:  <8a0028260702140556y68c1b3c7ted537f5927657909@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <000f01c74f35$a844f160$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645>
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On 13/02/07, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gerard Seibert" <gerard@seibercom.net>
> To: "User Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 2:16 PM
> Subject: Re: GMail [and other free email] and these lists?
>
>
> > On Monday February 12, 2007 at 04:45:44 (PM) Jeff Rollin wrote:
> >
> >
> > > In what way does Gmail suck?
> >
> > 1) No White Listing
> > 2) No configurable SPAM Filtering
> > 3) Bcc doesn't work
> > 4) 500 message a day limit.
> > 5) No PGP or S/MIME support
> > 6) No able to 'Forward as Attachment'
> > 7) Doesn't handle 'sig delimiter'
> > 8) No ability to create or sort to folders.
> > 9) No IMAP support
> > 10. Is routinely blacklisted by SORBS, among other blacklisting
> services.
> >
> > The list just goes on and on. Get on the GMail discussion list and see
> > what some of it's users have to say about it. It is good enough for
> > someone who's greatest need is writing to Grandma, but that is about it.
> >
>
> Hey, gmail rocks, I use it as a test mail account all of the time.  Not
> for
> production of course, but for sending test messages there's nothing wrong
> with it. ;-)
>
> Could anyone speculate as to why a user on gmail would have the nerve to
> bitch about the service?  They are getting what they paid for, after all!
> ;-)
>
>
> I will agree that some of these features (or lack of them) are annoying,
however Gmail does have the advantage of being accessible from wherever I
am, and being a whole heck of a lot faster than my ISP's Netmail service,
for example.

I haven't yet found the perfect email service/client, though. Maybe I should
post here when I do!

Jeff



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