Gmail poll

[pne]

[Poll #321938] [Poll #321939]

Comments

[madcaptenor.livejournal.com]

An option for "I use gmail for..." should perhaps be "I don't know, I'm still working that out." I would have put that if I could, since I'm currently transitioning to gmail and I'm not sure what I'll use it for.

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

I actually like GMail for its *other* features besides the 1GB storage: the labels (specifically, ability to assign multiple labels to one email), the sorting by conversation, and the search-within-the-text-of-emails thing.

[bride.livejournal.com]

I get the Word of the Day from Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.Com and WordSmith. I'm building a Reverse Dictionary out of my Gmail so that I can search with definitions to find the words.

[timwi.livejournal.com]

The day I will start to use Gmail seems to be in a far-away distant future. Firstly, they don't offer POP3 (obviously: they want you to view their text ads), and they don't allow me to have Timwi (must have at least 6 characters). For the time being, GMX seems to be the better choice for me.

Gmail and POP3

[pne.livejournal.com]

I think I saw somewhere that they were working on it, but somehow it seems to me that Gmail and POP3 just don't go together at all.

Gmail has lots of storage space - POP3 is typically used when you store mail locally and delete it from the mailbox after retrieving it.

Gmail can sort things into labels - POP3 only offers one Inbox.

Gmail allows you to search - POP3 just lets you download all or some mails.

POP3 makes more sense with a "dumb" mailbox; if you wanted to use POP3, you couldn't use Gmail's features anyway, so you might as well use another service.

Gmail with IMAP might make a little more sense, but not POP3. Just two different use cases.

Yup, have an account. Several, actually.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Err... so if you don't see yourself using Gmail, why do you have several Gmail accounts?

Re: Yup, have an account. Several, actually.

[timwi.livejournal.com]

Ah, because I danebenclicked apparently. Corrigierted. ;-)