I don't have any problems you seem to have with gmail. I suspect attitude is a big difference.
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Adam D. Ruppe <destructiona...@gmail.com>wrote: > Michael Stover: > > Did you use the gmail webapp to write that? > > No. My public email address is gmail so I get a free spam > filter and online archive, but I don't actually use their > awful, awful interface. (All incoming mail to that address is > forwarded to my real email address, and my outgoing mail is > SMTP relayed back through gmail. My real address remains spam > free by being secret.) > > This does bring me to two rants though: > > a) Gmail's web interface is horrible, even the basic HTML > version. Consider this: right click a message... no "open in > new window" option! WTF. > > I handle, on average, about 170 emails a day. In my mail client > (mutt) and my server setup, this is no bother for me. There's no > waiting on slow servers. The controls are natural and fluid. I can > pick up on another computer right where I left off, thanks to > GNU screen. When I'm emailed a dozen attachments, it is a simple > case of hitting a button to save them all locally - no annoying > scan and downloading of them individually. > > With gmail, I'd have to click through the messages one thread at a time, > never > seeing the whole message (their hiding of quoted text and signatures, not > 100% > accurate!). Try to reply? Have to deal > with their godawful editor (with mutt I can just use vim) and > the hidden text below it (implicit top quoting, are they on drugs?). > > With new incoming mail, my computer beeps the second it arrives > and is idle while waiting. With gmail, it'd be sitting there > polling, at the notice it does give doesn't even compare in terms > of usability or speed. > > Oh, and search? Surely Google could get search right? Nope > > > The worst part? Gmail might have the best of the web mail interfaces. Goes > to tell > you how dreadfully awful they are in general. > > > > b) I am posting this from the digitalmars news web interface. > For some reason, my emails don't seem to reliably get through. > > And this php webnews thing makes gmail look like heaven. It's > amazing the level of suck in this thing. I'm sure everyone > who has used it will agree so I'll spare you the long rant. > > But there's times that I feel the greatest service someone > could do for D would be to replace this thing! >