Google mail- what a load of overcomplicated wank.

[Paulie Tandoori]

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

Knob.

oh all right then.

stupid prick.

 

[Final]

Am I missing out by not using labels?

I've just been archiving everything from inbox and then using the search box to retrieve anything I wanted to re-read.

 

[ch750536]

Thats kinda the same think, a label is a saved search.

 

[untethered]

Thats kinda the same think, a label is a saved search.

Not really.

A saved search usually lets you do what that implies, which is easily retrieve a set of documents based on a content search.

Labels are metadata. As such, they need to be applied (manually or automatically) to content before they can be retrieved.

So think of labels as labels: something you apply to an email and then can either browse the emails or search within the emails that have that label.

The main point about labels is that they're more flexible than folders because you can apply several labels to a conversation, whereas an email or conversation can only reside in one conventional folder.

 

[Crispy]

Yep. I have 'Family' 'Friends' and 'Home' tags, but also a 'Birthday' tag which can coexist with 'Family' or 'Friends'

Tags are great

 

[boskysquelch]

when ever I see/hear Tags... I think of Tig-Chase.



this clip is a moby_vid of a three girls playing Tig-Chase for 20secs.

 

[jayeola]

Been using it for a few years I think. brill. key board short cuts are ace. don't even notice the adverts. groups, sorting, searching all work and spam is -dealt- with!!

 

[Onket]

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

I don't think my account has correctly identified a single spam email so far.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

I don't think my account has correctly identified a single spam email so far.

That's odd I've got over a gig of plain text mail on my account and I've had one spam email make it to my inbox.

 

[Onket]

Well, to be fair I hardly get any, but it puts things I want in the spam folder. Which I spose I should have said in response the the earlier post about why would you care what's in there.

 

[Maggot]

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

I like the way Gmail automatically saves a copy of the email you're writing, so you never lose them.

 

[Onket]

I like the way Gmail automatically saves a copy of the email you're writing, so you never lose them.

I don't like anything to be saved unless I want it to be.

Where does it save all these things?

 

[Maggot]

Why?

cos you started a thread about it you loon

Another thread where the thread starter refuses to elaborate on the reasons for their thread.

 

[Maggot]

I don't like anything to be saved unless I want it to be.

Where does it save all these things?

It saves them in drafts until they are sent.

So you prefer to spend ages typing out an email only to lose it cos of some glitch?

 

[Onket]

Another thread where the thread starter refuses to elaborate on the reasons for their thread.

Why should they?

It saves them in drafts until they are sent.

So you prefer to spend ages typing out an email only to lose it cos of some glitch?

Never had that problem. Does it automatically save sent items then?

 

[Maggot]

Why should they?

It's pretty pointless to start a thread saying you hate something but refusing to say why you hate it.

Never had that problem. Does it automatically save sent items then?

Yes.

 

[Onket]

It's pretty pointless to start a thread saying you hate something but refusing to say why you hate it.

No it isn't. It perfectly served it's purpose. Did you read post #57?

Yes.

Bugger. Can you turn it off?

 

[untethered]

Can you turn it off?

You think Google are going to waste time programming an option that says:

Lose all my work in the event of a disconnection or power loss:

yes/no

?

 

[Maggot]

No it isn't. It perfectly served it's purpose. Did you read post #57?

What was it's purpose?

Yes I read #57, it's completely irrelevant as I haven't said anything about helping you (although you clearly need help ).

Bugger. Can you turn it off?

Why don't you want your sent emails saved, what harm does it do?

 

[Onket]

You think Google are going to waste time programming an option that says:

Lose all my work in the event of a disconnection or power loss:

yes/no

?

Can you read? Idiot.

 

[Onket]

What was it's purpose?

Yes I read #57, it's completely irrelevant as I haven't said anything about helping you (although you clearly need help ).


Why don't you want your sent emails saved, what harm does it do?

Idiot.