Google mail- what a load of overcomplicated wank.

[Crispy]

Can you have emails from a certain email address be automatically be given labels as you receive them?
This is the main advantage of hotmail,
e.g. if I sign up to a regular mailing list I don't want all those emails coming into my main inbox.
In hotmail they can be filtered away for when I want to look at them leaving me just the more personal emails in my inbox.
I'd like to find out how to do something like this in gmail.

0. Goto your gmail
1. Click Settings at top right, then the Filters tab
2. Fill in the boxes (you can test the filter search here - very useful!)
3. Choose an action (Archive, Star, Label, Forward, Delete)

And that's it!

 

[ChrisFilter]

Yahoo email is better than gmail, imho.

 

[Herbsman.]

Yahoo email is better than gmail, imho.

At least tell us why.

 

[Maggot]

Yeah, fine if you choose to have a gmail account.

My provider moved to gmail & so I am forced to use the fucking useless pile of shit.

Perhaps you'd be so kind as to tell us why you think it's so useless.

 

[wtfftw]

I prefer labels to folders.

 

[lunatrick]

I find gmail invaluable......I use it as an online storage facility, knowing I can easily find a document I mailed anytime in the last 3 or 4 years.

I can't think why anyone would think it was shite....compared to other offerings.....frankly online google dominate.

 

[dweller]

thanks everyone for the filter help

 

[Onket]

Perhaps you'd be so kind as to tell us why you think it's so useless.

Why?

 

[Dan U]

Why?

cos you started a thread about it you loon

maybe people could actually help you!

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Perhaps you'd be so kind as to tell us why you think it's so useless.

cos it just fucking is.

sometimes life is very straight forward.

you don't need a focus group to understand why.

 

[cesare]

I also think Googlemail is brilliant. It downloads obediently into my Thunderbird account and I don't even realise it exists. Until I need to use it, whereupon I always find it convenient.

Same here, 'cept it downloads to Outlook. I like it

 

[Herbsman.]

cos it just fucking is.

sometimes life is very straight forward.

you don't need a focus group to understand why.

knob

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

knob

thanks for gracing us with your witty and elegant retort, i so look forward to enjoying much more of your eloquent argument and opinion.....

 

[scifisam]

The only thing I don't like about gmail is the way it stacks all the emails up in a 'conversation'.

That's optional - you can turn it off in settings. I find it really useful because I have a lot of group emails with friends, and it saves me tons of time being able to just read through a 'thread' of emails rather than opening them individually.

i think gmail is bollocks. its my 3rd choice email account and as such, is very very rarely used at all. despite the fact that i've hardly ever use it, when i check it every couple of weeks, there will be perhaps one message in the inbox and literally 300 pieces of spam mail. its spammed to a far higher degree than my hotmail or virgin accounts yet these 2 addresses are far more likely to be in the public domain. so why so much spam for gmail a/c i wonder?

That's really unusual - most people say the opposite about Gmail, that they pretty much never get spam on there. You must have been signed up to something by accident. Does 'report spam' work for you?

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

That's really unusual - most people say the opposite about Gmail, that they pretty much never get spam on there. You must have been signed up to something by accident. Does 'report spam' work for you?

nope. not to my knowledge. last logged in a day and a half ago, just checked, 21 spam messages and nowt else.

 

[untethered]

nope. not to my knowledge. last logged in a day and a half ago, just checked, 21 spam messages and nowt else.

Presumably the spam goes in Spam folder, where I currently have 1483 messages. The solution to this particular problem is not to look at it.

I can't possibly comment why you haven't received any other mail.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Presumably the spam goes in Spam folder, where I currently have 1483 messages. The solution to this particular problem is not to look at it.

I can't possibly comment why you haven't received any other mail.

cos i don't use the account at all really. which is why the amount of spam is surprising. unless google security is suspect. which i think it is. which is why i don't use it.

 

[untethered]

cos i don't use the account at all really. which is why the amount of spam is surprising. unless google security is suspect. which i think it is. which is why i don't use it.

Spammers send mail to randomly-generated addresses, among other means.

There is little Google's "security" can do to stop this, or indeed, anyone else's.

 

[scifisam]

nope. not to my knowledge. last logged in a day and a half ago, just checked, 21 spam messages and nowt else.

Do you mean in the inbox or in the spam box?

 

[fredfelt]

On the left hand side there is a section that allows you to only show things that have a certain label, this gives you the chance to either see everything in one inbox, or quickly filter to only the stuff you want. I have ones set for work - financial, work - bookings, etc etc What's great is that things can have more than one label if they relate to different things in the one mail, which is far more flexible than having it stuck in a folder.

Yes, and set up filters so emails go directly into the right folders (or labels). All my urban emails go straight into a folder to save cluttering up my inbox.

I've also set up a forward so all my work email gets pulled from my work email server to my gmail. Naturally I've got a work folder that these go into. When sending I have a drop down list to select email address (gmail or work)

When I'm not at work I user filters to forward any work email to a collegue.

Everyone at work has a shared gmail calendar as well.

I prefer it to outlook.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Do you mean in the inbox or in the spam box?

in the spam box. but why do they come? the email addy is (1) unlikely in the extreme to be randomly generated (2) more or less unused (3) the volume of spam (to the spam box) is something like 100* more than either of my other 3 email addresses (2 private, 1 professional).

snot right i tell eeee, snot right....

 

[Iam]

If you're struggling with Googlemail, step away from the computer - it's probably not really for you.

 

[scifisam]

in the spam box. but why do they come? the email addy is (1) unlikely in the extreme to be randomly generated (2) more or less unused (3) the volume of spam (to the spam box) is something like 100* more than either of my other 3 email addresses (2 private, 1 professional).

snot right i tell eeee, snot right....

Oh. Why do you care what's in your spam box?

 

[teuchter]

the email addy is (1) unlikely in the extreme to be randomly generated

Surely every email address is by definition equally likely to be randomly generated.

 

[Roadkill]

I completely agree with the OP - Googlemail is crap.

 

[kyser_soze]

(1) unlikely in the extreme to be randomly generated

My 3rd gmail account had the most random thing I could think of, but within 2 weeks someone had sent a spam to it - same appplies to a rarely used yahoo! account I've got which has never been used to sign up for anything (indeed, I only use it rarely), with a bizarre address. Spam will always get you.

Gmail is the mutts.

 

[Onket]

cos you started a thread about it you loon

maybe people could actually help you!

Is the thread called 'Please help me with the overcomplicated pile of wank that is gmail'?

And what does post #1 say?

 

[Herbsman.]

thanks for gracing us with your witty and elegant retort, i so look forward to enjoying much more of your eloquent argument and opinion.....

Hah, and this is coming from someone who says Gmail is crap but refused to say why.

Knob.

 

[han]

I think gmail's great! By far the best free email around. But...

I use something called mailsnare (www.mailsnare.net) and don't get a single piece of spam. That's cos it has a challenge/reponse thing that you can set on it (the spam settings, indeed all settings, are really configurable). Basically, when someone sends you a message for the first time, mailsnare will send them an email asking them to verify their email address. If they don't email back (ie. it's automated spam), then you won't get the mail. If they do, then they automatically go on your whitelist. It does cost £10 a year though.

It's fantastic! I don't get a single bit of spam. I use mailsnare as my main email account, and then gmail for for junk stuff eg. buying stuff online, signing up to newsletters, etc. And for that, gmail's great - by far the best free email, I think.

It goes without saying, that you can set up as many as your own email addresses as you like on it mailsnare, and receive gmail into it if you like. Oh and it's IMAP. Which is good.

 

[Structaural]

My gf, who's not the most computer minded, will sit there writing an email for half an hour in Yahoo only to press send and find she's been logged out and the email lost. Yahoo GTF, Gmail FTW. 7GB of space, that's more than I get on a domain that I pay for. I've had this account about 10 years and still only on 18% . She won't use her gmail though, too stubborn
After sending a bunch of email from my new work, Yahoo's spam function operates quite simply - not in your address book - then it's spam