how reliable have you found Gmail
 

for all of those who have it ,what has your experience been with gmail ,
have you found it reliable ,ect:)

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Its great.

No problems with it via the website or POP access.

One of the few websites I probably would pay for if needbe (I hope I've not given them any ideas...)

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Not had any problems.

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very reliable, plus I like the interface & the HUGE amount of storage :tu:

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Seconded, but its still in BETA never the less :tu:

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Never the less what? :erm: Do you mean that despite it still being BETA it's proving reliable, useful and very easy to use? :shrug: If so then I agree, if not then you may want to clarify the statement lol ;)

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Its great..........use it as my main email!! :)

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Thats exactly what im saying. lol

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It's wonderful, up there with chocolate, sex, and Jimmy Choo shoes for me! ;)
<edit> Add Top Gear to that list!
(Thanks, Gaz!)

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er ang on, I thought it was taken out of Beta.

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Nope, it's just been opened up a little to more users and had it's storage increased. Still very stable and a bl**dy good back up email account.

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i've been invited for one, but i can't see any features good enough to make me want to switch from hotmail; i barely use over the old 2MB limit, never mind 250MB, and i keep everything pretty organised already.

is there anything i've missed? i can understand it's good for some... :shrug:

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Will a massove 2GB be good enough to persuade you?

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200x too much as opposed to 25x?

10 MB is enough, makes no odds to me! :p:

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Well with the extra large inbox one can use it for storage of vital info,passwords,key codes,software codes.In fact somewhere there is info on how to turn a Gmail account into a virtual online storage.To get 2GB's of online storage will usually cost you. ;)

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I find the grouping of messages and ability to mark them with labels so you can find them easily a bonus. Plus the forwarding of mail, filtering and display options are all helpful. You can always give it a whirl and if you don't like it then you can close the account.

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Very good!!!

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If his hotmail account is okay for him, why swap?

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sounds interesting, but a few people have shown me the filtering doodahs and it doesn't seem to do much useful, for me. not worth the hassle of me switching accounts.

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Not had any problems with it.

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I run both, as I can still read hotmail with pop3 it is convenient, for now, but if that changes I will probably lean further towards Gmail.

- One thing I do wonder about Gmail - if they have a 2GB (and climbing ;) ) storage capacity for each inbox, do they have that backed up, physically, or is it just a clever RAID thingy???

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Its pretty reliable, however i dont use it much as i dont like the user interface

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I use it many times a day & have many accounts giving me over 20gb of storage. although I only actually use a fraction of it.

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I don't have a gmail account. :)

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neither do I....but if anyone wants to offer me one I would gladly accept!

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hoggy, pm me your email addy & I'll send you an invite.

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PM me you email addresses and ill invite you.

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Doubt if Paul M want's one since he knows where the Gmail invite thread is and has yet to ask for one ;) If he wants one then there are plenty of people to ask, including other team members lol

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Gmail is the best, it is fast, safe and reliable. Gmail for the win!

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Hmm, do I detect the need for one of Incog's awards..

"Best free email account supplier" etc... lol

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Google was down for me the other night... was down for about an hour - then I went to bed so it could've been down for longer.
All other websites were working - so it could have been a proxy issue, but could be just as easily a problem at Google's end. Couldnt get on google.co.uk / google.com or gmail at all - just got "page cannot be displayed" in MSIE and firefox said the site could not be found.

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Was a problem at google's end, they are stating it was a DNS error on their part. The site, gmail and search engine were all offline for about an hour, after which they started getting everything back up and running again.

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the occasional downtime, but far less than i've experienced with hotmail in the same time frame - a supposedly matured service.

Gmail's t3h baws.

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thanks people

the reason i asked is because i have had to re-install my operating system a week ago , and was glad that i still had some emails on my gmail account as i forgot to back up my outlook express ,,

so i am thinking of going over to gmail as a single email account ,

so wanted to know if there have been any issues with it .

but feedback seems good so i might just commit to it .

many thanks to you all :)

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Since installing XP on this computer I have only used OE once & that was to look at newsgroups.

I keep all my mail on gmail, I just hope they have a good backup system.

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I use G-Mail and have my NTL mail addy forward all mail to it and use it as my main email I have about 7 accounts with them for various forums and uses.