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There have been a few times over the past couple years when Gmail has decided they were going implement an interface change that was inferior to what they already had. I reluctantly put up with the others, but this "new compose" that they just finished phasing in is a mess.
Does anyone have any recommendations for other email providers? Or is there a way to make this new interface become not terrible?
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You're talking about the new compose that shows up as sort of a window in the bottom right? Personally I like that change :P
That said don't like some of their others. I think outlook.com (the new hotmail) is a better user interface for the most part but that's all personal preference. Tends to be clearner, pretty fast and love that they have icons on each message in list to delete it, mark it read or mark it as spam (customizable) rather than have to select messages and use buttons like in gmail (though now you can right click for some of those options). Only thing I don't like is they don't have the tag/category system which is odd considering the outlook software has a great tag/category system.
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Gmail's killer feature, as with the rest of Google, is really search. That and the large space available when it first launched. That's how it pulled users from Yahoo.
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Fastmail.fm is pretty popular. It's not free, $5 or $15 per year, but that's a feature not a bug since they're not whoring out your emails to any advertiser with a buck.
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(August 15th, 2013, 18:36)T-hawk Wrote: Fastmail.fm is pretty popular. It's not free, $5 or $15 per year, but that's a feature not a bug since they're not whoring out your emails to any advertiser with a buck.
Neither are MS with outlook.com. Think that's largely a google thing.
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(August 15th, 2013, 18:36)T-hawk Wrote: they're not whoring out your emails to any advertiser with a buck.
I get so many gmail ads for Krill Oil and the Scooter Store. Keep trying, Google.
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If you want secured email, you've got to go outside of US. BTW, my hats off to Lavabit and Silent Circle.
Otherwise I have been using idcrisis at mindless dot com since forever, offered by mail.com, who has a couple hundreds of unique domain names for your choosing.
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Just type funeral in ever email and it'll shut the ads up while you are reading them.
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So today I learned that there's not just the inbox/spam/trash boxes in gmail but also around 3 months of emails hidden away in one of the options called categories too. Fortunately there wasn't anything too important in there but I had no idea they were there and no idea why gmail decided to throw a whole bunch of emails in a separate folder.
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Since the update I don't get/can't find the email notifications when I get a Private Message. Any ideas?
EDIT: Nevermind, seems to be a problem with RB?
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