Google Gmail

TERRIBLE TERRIBLE worse than TERRIBLE!!! But had to create two google email addresses: one to access YouTube account because YouTube shitheads decided for people ( without even asking them! ) that gmail is the best way to connect to YouTube. Another gmail address attached to my Andoid cell phone, dunno whose dick who sucked @ Verizon phone company and @ Google.... if Google want to shove their shity gmail in peoples throat then why they don't make their email crap simple to use??? The worst and the most inconvenient email box. Hope u all die, Google bitches

It's free. It's reliable. It has a pretty decent spam filter. It has a great search and archive function. I couldn't really think of what more we could ask for? Prior to gmail I tried Hotmail and Yahoo but both services were so horribly unreliable. Getting 1 out of every 20 emails not getting through is not acceptable to me. I haven't had any problems like that at all with gmail.

Gmail is one the best free e-mail providers. I am using it since it was launched and I saw how it evolved over the time. At the start they were outstanding in storage space and they changed the rules of free e-mail providers - others offered 10-25 megabytes space but nowadays everybody gives at least 100 megabytes. Their most useful invention was tagging of the e-mails which feature was not used by any leading e-mail providers. Unfortunately they had some bad service outages in the recent years but it is acceptable compared to other providers.

Gmail is the best email provider I have ever used. I used hotmail for years and I had so much spam. I also found the layout a bit messy and often confusing. Gmail is so easy to use, the design is simple and it is great for spam! I rarely have anything I don't want in my inbox. It also has the easy to use calendar function too which I find really useful. You can create new folders for organizing everything so easily. Highly recommended!

Gmail is the best. I don't think I can explain it, but my switch from Hotmail to Gmail was one of the best decisions I've ever made.

Google has always provide good sevices and all free that the point. I likes many lab features in gmail particularly priority inbox. I dislike it take some what long to load while using mobile connection net

great feature on gmail is spam filter, every link on spam email will be deleted.

The UI is not beauty like Yahoo! Mail. But the speed and PERFORMANCE is great. There are a lot of add-on features in the Labs, in my opinion, they are useful for someone who really care about work via email. My group is using Google Apps Mail, It's great, easy to config, fast. Secure! If you usually use the Folder of other Email Provider. You may takes coupe minutes to understand how the LABEL of Google works. It's very convenient to use Google Apps Mail, Gmail is the same!

Update: I've had my gmail account for over five years, and I rarely use it. Recently, I've gotten several hundred spam messages per week for the past few months. It's never happened before. There is nothing Google can do to help me fix this, so I've just been using Yahoo and Hotmail where I receive little spam. Anyway, I like the gmail layout and use, but the spam is just too much. Among the big three email websites, gmail is the least effective in taking care of spam. Original: Avast ye seven seas of gmail.

I switched from Yahoo to this and I like it so far. When I made the switch, It took me a while to get used to the layout. Yahoo is a good provider but Gmail loads a lot faster and has better spam filtering. So if your looking for a good email provider I recommend Gmail.

Great e-mail service, there leaves out the need for an offline e-mail client.

I use Gmail, mainly to register myself on websites, so I do not revel my primary e-mail address and prevent spam. I don't use the website but instead use my Thunderbird 3.0 and use the IMAP to access my email. It does fairly well with spam, but I also use Spam software called Mail washer. It's a great way to sign up with websites to protect your primary e-mail address. I highly recommend it for this use and so you can read your e-mail while away from home while traveling at motels or on vacation.

Excellent email service

Gmail rocks. With a built-in chat system, it makes everything so much more convenient. The layout is really great too (with the new customizable themes) and it's light, fast & reliable.

All the functionality in the world coupled with the smoothest user-interface this side of Saturn cannot erase the allegation that Google was started with CIA monies. I do not trust them, and will not be using them for business, pleasure, or even spam email. If I could give them negative ratings on account of this glaring flaw, I would.

I think I'm your basic "no frills" consumer of on-line services and Gmail appears to fill the bill nicely but so did Hotmail, MSN, and a number of other services I've tried out. In fact they do for me about the same thing, send/receive/reply/forward/attach, as the various Outlook, and ancient WANG and Unisys email prooducts I've used since the stone-age of the 1980's. I think our need to communicate is FAR out powered in relation to our ability to communicate.

Best out there so long as you link up with Outlook...no idea how to use to service on their website...just way to confusing but it is a free link up to Outlook so I can't complain. Long live Google!

It's the best free email provider out there and there user interface for it is great. What I really like about their user interface is that you can customise it to suit your tastes and you can add plugins to extend it's functionality. I switched most of my emails over to being through Gmail despite having an email address for my domain as Gmail is better - simple as that. I also like the power of the filtering though it could be improved by letting people use regular expressions - for those who know how to write RegExp it would make the filters even more powerful than they already are. As mentioned in previous reviews, Gmail has a really great spam filter which makes it very rare that spam makes it into my inbox. On a couple of occasions I have had genuine emails from people I've received emails from before go into my spam folder, but it's been a very rare event. It's use of JavaScript is really quite good, but I suppose it should be considering the amazing team of developers at Goog... Read more

Hmmmm... I use google gmail because have big capacity so i did not need to erase my old message everyday, and google also support my language and if you have slow internet connetcion you can use in HTML mode so it will become more faster beside that with gmail account we can log in in GTalk to make a friend. I can recommended to you all this email providers, easy to use and also have friendly interface. For other features it same with another email provider. The Big Capacity Of Your Email Inbox ? Get it only with Gmail...

If you want a free email account, gmail is the way to go. The spam filter blows everyone else out of the water, the storage space is tremendous, and the site is reliable.

Gmail is very good. Google is the new empire, get on board and take the ride. Microsoft is out of date and probably will stay that way. At least PC users have Google to make their lives easier, let's hope they keep their programming fresh.

I can't figure out why anyone uses anything but gmail anymore in terms of free accounts. The spam filters are fantastic, the ads are inobtrusive, the storage limit is high and increases by the minute, the limit on message size is extremely high in relation to other services, and the have IMAP support so you can synchronize your account even when checking your mail from multiple locations. Google FTW (as per usual). Everyone else is just playing catch-up.

GMail is ok to use, but I've never been too impressed with their system. I've been using yahoo all this time and have been completely happy with their system.

I have been a Gmail account user for quite some time, great storage, wonderful SPAM filters, great free blogs, the best search engine ever, great chat feature, Firefox browser and many add ons, very many additional sites, great email alets, wonderful news alerts from the chosen countries, fantastic help sites and human help over the chat feature and finally great permanent tech support. Shortly we will also have a Q&A; site in English nicely reviewd and efficent which we users will certainly enjoy. Google is simply great.

While they are probably the best out there right now, they lose a star for being a little late to the game. Why should Hotmail or Yahoo users switch to Gmail when they already have perfectly functional free email accounts? I'll give credit to Gmail for the high storage space, which prompted both Hotmail and Yahoo to increase their storage capacity as well. I do have a Gmail account, and while it is a good provider, it doesn't have enough to make the hassle of switching my primary account worthwhile.

Gmail is my first choice among many free providers I used or use now. It gives huge space for storage, Web based and POP3 interface, excellent filters, and never down. What else we need?

Great free Web-based email service

Great service.. fast, reliable, with a fantastic anti-spam system, just the best webmail.

it's amazing

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Gmail is one of the best email providers out there. There tech support is prompt and very polite. The ability to use google talk(googles instant messenger) on the mails home page, searching through the chat history are just two of the many servises provided by GMAIL. thumbs up to dem :)

Absolutely the best web mail service out there

Gmail is pure-and-simple awesome: you receive an excessive amount of storage space so that you do not need to delete a single email; the filters have not allowed a single piece of junk mail into my account; the web interface is excellent programmed and intuitive; and, you can use Mozilla Thunderbird (or another mail client) to send and receive all your mail. No hassles, no problems, no regrets.

Talk about easy to use and hassle-free...GMAIL is the bomb!

gmail offer more free space for their users. saya tak perlu repot - repot lagi menghapus e-mail di INBOX saya.

Overrated - the special features don't hurt the product, but they're not anything spectacular either. For example, people think its so cool that it groups emails into "conversations." Big deal. With other email services, all I have to do is look at the last email from a person and the prior related emails are copied below. And the big problem with Gmail that people don't mention much is the all-too-common shutdowns of the service. At least once a week I get the "oops...try again in a few minutes" message. Not the end of the world, but pretty problematic when you consider the insanely positive comments about this pretty average service.

Its up to the mark.

fantastic! absolutely great! especially since the tell time when an email was sent to me.

the best email service i have ever used, great features, speed, realibility and space =)

great spam filtering and convenient conversation threads (although they can sometimes become confusing). Complete forwarding and POP support are +'s...good stuff.

It's pretty good, but I have occassional problems running it with Safari. I don't find it to be as intuitive or enjoyable to work with as Yahoo Mail. Still, I like the feature of email threads.

Gmail > hotmail

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...and they support the Democratic Party! :)

Gmail is THE best. It runs so smoothly and nicely your wondering how something liek this was never thought of before. Of course the throwing it in your trash then going to and deleting it thing is kinda annoying, but the starred option compensates for it. All in all, it is a very nice e-mail service, and if you use MSN just for the Messenger, simply create a pasport with your service.

Most of the time I like GMAIL. But for some reason some companies where I send emails from gmail look at gmail account as SPAM and don't let it go through. Also the downside with GMAIL is they have 15 MB attachment limit that you can send. And recently I noticed that I can't log in to GMAIL account or can't open the gmail page at all. They often have their service down. I use it but not as my primary service and I wouldn't recommend to have it as a primary email service just yet because it's still in a testing mode where you can expect unstable service which I personally can't afford.

FYI, gmail has indeed doubled their space from 1gb to 2gb. 1GB is more than enough for most of us, so would they give us even more? They felt like being generous on their 1 yr anniversary of their beta testing phase.