Comments on: Using Gmail for work

By: Rakesh Agrawal’s Blog » Dear Google, please let me pay for more space on Gmail

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:20:29 +0000

[...] Let me join in the hopes and pleas of others. I switched over to using Gmail for work about a year ago, I’ve been above 90% capacity for a couple of months now and I would jump at the chance to pay for more space. [...]

By: Rakesh Agrawal’s Blog » NYTimes on work e-mail forwarding to Gmail

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:01:39 +0000

[...] About 8 months ago, I wrote about my switch over to Gmail as my primary work email client. Seems I’m not the only one doing this based on this story in today’s New York Times (which, incidentally, I first read in my car on my Cingular 2125 Windows Mobile phone while I was driving into work this morning and then read again on Google Blogoscoped). The one thing this article misses, in my opinion, is a key reason I made the switch: productivity. Gmail has some massive productivity enhancers that are absent from Outlook and other Windows-based email clients. Conversations, quick and always-works search, effective spam filtering, instant filtering, instant mobile access, and tags are some of the productivity enhancers. [...]

By: Johnny

Johnny — Fri, 26 May 2006 11:04:00 +0000

It’s pretty ghetto that a big ol’ company like Google doesn’t allow direct mail retrieval from external POP accounts in Gmail. I mean, co’mon, setting up autofowards from each individual account? First, that is so backward, but second, What a nuisance! This is a such a basic feature and I can hardly beleive they haven’t added this yet. I spent 20 minutes on the ‘Settings’ page thinking that I must have overlooked something. Yahoo and so many other webmail providers have had this feature for years now.

I love Google and its simple interface, but am I the only one to notice that Gmail is dog slow? Must be the whole world using it all at the same time. Yahoo Mail on the other hand is lightning fast; if it didn’t have all the smileys and other goop on every page, I’d be using it as my primary service.

By: Elling

Elling — Thu, 11 May 2006 13:43:00 +0000

I have to agree with Rahul. For the purpose of having an online e-mail client replacement, fastmail.fm is currently equipped better for the job. I just like Gmail’s interface and calendar, so I learn to live with it’s shortcomings.

I have written up a piece on the fastmail-features Gmail needs on my blog, they also have a free account option so you can check out the features for yourself.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 11 May 2006 08:34:00 +0000

Also, if you use FireFox and the gmail notifier extension, I think it’ll secure your connection automagically.

By: Rahul

Rahul — Wed, 10 May 2006 22:42:00 +0000

Guys,

Before you talk about Gmail,take a look at Fastmail.fm ; whether it is filtering,IMAP,WAP or hosting your own email,Fastmail leaves Gmail far behind.

By: hungryflytrap

hungryflytrap — Wed, 10 May 2006 05:45:00 +0000

GMail does support https but doesn’t use it by default for anything other than login.

You can change the URL once you log in to https (just add the s) and it then works fine. There’s a greasemonkey extension that does this automatically (called ‘Secure GMail).

By: matt1128

matt1128 — Tue, 09 May 2006 16:23:00 +0000

I don’t know how you wrote such a long and detailed article on using gmail for work without addressing the #1 issue: security. Using an outside email would probably be a violation of 95% of companies’ IT security policies. Gmail does not use https.

By: (``-_-´´)

(``-_-´´) — Tue, 09 May 2006 10:49:00 +0000

I’ve found that if u set your domains alias as your primary account, it wont show the behalf string.
it also my allow u to send from mobile using your new primary account. havent tried but I thinks it works.
One the things that keeps me from moving to another email host, is the conversations! cant live with out them, and havent found any other email system that does that.
About the use of domains on GMail, i’ve been waiting for a while, and havent get any anwser.

By: Danny

Danny — Tue, 09 May 2006 05:16:00 +0000

You aren’t likely to run out of space. I’ve been at 77% for ages despite dumping tons in. In fact, Google essentially said everyone gets unlimited storage (see http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050401-003432), so I wouldn’t worry about this. Now the bad domain aliasing. Ugh. I’ve had same issue (http://daggle.com/060131-134544.html) as have many others. I wish they’d get that fixed.