Comments on: Comparing Yahoo! Mail vs. GMail

By: Vinay

Vinay — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:35:38 +0000

Gmail is vastly superior – there are no two ways about it. Yahoo’s clumsy graphic ads are sickening. Read on why I think Gmail is superior here on my blog: http://desinotes.com/why-gmail-is-still-better-than-yahoo-mail/

By: George

George — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:38:12 +0000

I used to think that Yahoo!Mail Plus ($20/year) email service was a much better alternative than Gmail, but my opinion is now the opposite after my recent experience of Yahoo losing 6 continuous weeks of ALL the emails sent to AND from my account during 2006. I lost hundreds of emails, which I was informed were “corrupted” after repeatedly reporting this problem to Yahoo Help (4 email exchanges on same topic with Yahoo’s help staff, all bu the last resulted in the same false “problem solved” form-letter reply). The final insult was Yahoo’s proposed solution – that I contact the senders and recipients of my lost emails and ask them to send me a copy of each correspondence.

By: Karen Zara

Karen Zara — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:22:24 +0000

I use Yahoo! Mail most of the time. Although I’m a huge Google fan, and despite being aware of GMail’s many qualities, I’m just too used to Yahoo! Mail. Nevertheless, I’ve become an involuntary GMail user when iG, a Brazilian ISP, made a partnership with Google and had their email system totally modified as a result (i.e. it was turned into a GMail clone). At first I found it quite slower, but now that I’m getting used to it I think I’m going to sign up for an authentic GMail account as well.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:07:54 +0000

I do love Gmail but have a little problem with it, I use an iPhone and I also want to do email on my computer. Now, this wouldn’t be a problem if POP access wasn’t so terrible (or if Gmail would support IMAP), what I ended up doing was setting my outgoing mail server to be gmail and my incoming as an IMAP account that Gmail was forwarding to, this solves all of my problems.

By: Madhur Kapoor

Madhur Kapoor — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:39:09 +0000

My first choice is gmail . I think it is a bit faster than Yahoo .

By: Kyle Eslick

Kyle Eslick — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:14:21 +0000

K – Yeah, Yahoo has a few nice features. Also, I would like the choice between folders and labels. I prefer labels, but many people seem to prefer folders, which I’ve never understood because that limits you to a single label for the e-mail.

I worry Google has pulled a Microsoft and pulled most of their resources off of the GMail project, like Microsoft did after IE6. I can see this for some of their projects, but e-mail requires constant innovation, integration, and improvement (the 3 i’s!).

To be honest, if it wasn’t for the threaded conversations and free features that Yahoo charges for, I think most people would have stuck with Yahoo. If Yahoo adds that stuff at some point, look out GMail.

By: K-IntheHouse

K-IntheHouse — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:50:51 +0000

Kyle, I switched to GMail when they offered private Beta and I have never turned back. I do like GMail and its labels a lot. I am not a folder person. But, Google has definitely slowed down with development in GMail front and that is sad. May be if enough of us start whining, they might take notice!

I would like to see some of the features in Yahoo Mail in GMail though!

By: Kyle Eslick

Kyle Eslick — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:42:04 +0000

John – Yeah, the GMail storage space is nice, although Yahoo! Mail actually gives unlimited storage space. Keeping my conversations together is the one feature that keeps me with GMail.

Crys – We are definitely a lot alike! I keep almost 10 e-mail addresses that all filter into one GMail account (to take advantage of their anti-spam filters), then download it into my Outlook/Thunderbird accounts (I switch back and forth between the two).

By: Crys

Crys — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:10:55 +0000

I use gmail when using an online service. Mainly for generic personal emails, and I have 3 separate gmail accounts. 1 for personal email, 1 for junk email and 1 for professional contact.

But many of my projects I use my domain email for, which is filtered through thunderbird (14 email addresses total). Even my junk email that is sent through gmail, eventually is sent to my thunderbird so I can check everything in one place when at home.

By: John Bennett

John Bennett — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:14:40 +0000

I use Gmail and have liked it ever since it came out. The improvements that were made since its launch were very welcomed ( accessing pop mail, labels, etc.), while there are a few I wish were improved (I wish you could select from a list of your contacts while forwarding).

Plus the size of the email inbox is great (I’ve filled about half my inbox so far with gmail, about 1.5 gb).