All things Gmail. - Page 7

gromag · 05-03-2005, 13:17

I don't have any report bugs

zoombini · 10-03-2005, 15:37

Is it just me or does this happen to you?

When I have been trying to forward mail or send messages, when I clockon send I get the message.
"Oops, cannot connect to Gmail, check your connection" or something very like it.

Takes about 4-6 goes at clicking send to get it to work.
This may be my company firewall, not sure.

**Maggy** · 10-03-2005, 15:45

Gah! The Russian spammers have discovered Gmail..

I'm getting a hell of a lot more spam now...however the spam filter is working very well.

gromag · 10-03-2005, 15:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by zoombini

Is it just me or does this happen to you?

When I have been trying to forward mail or send messages, when I clockon send I get the message.
"Oops, cannot connect to Gmail, check your connection" or something very like it.

Takes about 4-6 goes at clicking send to get it to work.
This may be my company firewall, not sure.

Well, I ve never got that message but sometimes it get stuck while sending. I usually press stop on the browser and try send it again. It usally works.

sherer · 13-03-2005, 13:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by zoombini

Is it just me or does this happen to you?

When I have been trying to forward mail or send messages, when I clockon send I get the message.
"Oops, cannot connect to Gmail, check your connection" or something very like it.

Takes about 4-6 goes at clicking send to get it to work.
This may be my company firewall, not sure.

i used th get this error as wekk.. cleared down my temp internet files and pron went away after that

Paul K · 01-04-2005, 07:57

From CNET

Quote:

Google plans to offer a bottomless cup of storage with its Gmail Web-based e-mail service, dramatically raising the bar for rivals in the sharply competitive business for the second time in a year.

The Mountain View, Calif.-based Web giant on Friday plans to double the free storage on Gmail from 1GB to 2GB, said Georges Harik, Gmail product management director. After that, Google will add a yet-to-be-determined amount of extra storage daily, with no plans to stop.

The move highlights the seemingly inexhaustible storage needs of a small group of heavy e-mail users, and the sharply falling costs of online storage. Lifting pre-defined storage caps for Web-based e-mail could have broader ripple effects, Harik said, changing the way people think about quotas from something that is set in advance to something that grows with the user.

"We wanted to make sure we have a plan in place for when people reach their storage limit," he explained. "We don't want people to worry that they might run out."

Google first broke the e-mail mold on April 1, 2004, with an announcement so bizarre that many assumed it was an April Fool's Day joke. Gmail's 1GB of free storage at the time was widely thought to exceed the lifetime needs of most e-mail users without the need to delete a single file. By contrast, rivals such as Yahoo and Microsoft offered about 10MB of storage, seeking to charge customers who wanted more.

A slew of imitators scrambled to match and even exceed Google's free 1GB storage offer, transforming the Web-based e-mail business.

In addition to its gargantuan storage capacity, Gmail distinguished itself from rivals by scanning the text of e-mail messages to serve up contextual advertisements--a plan that raised a short-lived furor over potential privacy violations.

In the first year of service, Gmail defied expectations, Harik said. The privacy concerns have amounted to little or nothing, he said, but the storage capacity became a pressing concern when some heavy Gmail users came close to using up their pre-set limit.

"One gigabyte did seem like a lot, but it turns out there are a lot of heavy users of mail," he said. "They send attachments, share photos. It all adds up." He said Google discourages customers from using Gmail as a vast storage locker for music and video files. He said Google does not disclose the storage patterns of its users, but said a small but not insignificant number of users were close to exceeding the 1GB limit.

Gmail will remain in a beta, or public test phase, for now, Harik added, putting to rest rumors that the closely watched service might be released officially in the near future. He said plans for new features could hold back an official release, but gave no timeline.

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Oh and to make sure people aren't looking at the date and wondering,
Gmail

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G is for growth
Storage is an important part of email, but that doesn't mean you should have to worry about it. To celebrate our one-year birthday, we're giving everyone one more gigabyte. But why stop the party there? Our plan is to continue growing your storage beyond 2GBs by giving you more space as we are able. We know that email will only become more important in people's lives, and we want Gmail to keep up with our users and their needs. From Gmail, you can expect more.

We're not in the plains anymore
Fonts, bullets and highlighting, oh my! Gmail now offers rich text formatting. And over 60 colors of the rainbow. Discover a land of more than just black and white

Not like GoogleGulp

zoombini · 01-04-2005, 09:15

Whoopee.
As long as it's not a april 1st joke

**Damien** · 01-04-2005, 09:54

2gb and increasing! Rich text at last!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GMAIL

Dave Stones · 01-04-2005, 09:57

well, looked at my storage usage just now:

Quote:

Originally Posted by gmail

You are currently using 60 MB (5%) of your 1160 MB

definitely going up,my storage was 1000mb yesterday

Paul K · 01-04-2005, 10:10

See I post useful info sometimes

Dave Stones · 01-04-2005, 10:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul

See I post useful info sometimes

but you see, for all we know you could be lying again

zoombini · 01-04-2005, 11:27

Just watch the bottom of your Gmailbox & refresh every few minutes & it keps going up.

Is that better than watching paint dry though?
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Shamelessly taken from here.

Quote:

Grouping email id in gmail.
Although Gmail doesn't currently support
Groups in your Contacts, you can simulate a Group list by doing the
following:

1. Create a new Contact

2. In the "Name" field, enter the name of your Group (eg "My Friends")

3. In the "E-mail" field, enter your list of email addresses in the
following format:

frie...@gmail.com>,<frie...@blah.com>,<frie...@foo .com

Note three things:

1. You must enter ">,<" (without the quotes) between all addresses 2. Be sure NOT to include a leading "<" or trainling ">". This is
intentional, because during auto-complete, Gmail adds these characters
to the beginning and end of the full string that is in the e-mail
field.

3. Also, there should be no spaces in the string.

Now if you want to add some more email ids to the already existing group which u have created, then go to contacts, click on the group contact which u have already created, and you will find an option "edit contact information", click on that and insert the new email id.

There are a few other handy tips there too.

**Damien** · 01-04-2005, 11:44

is it just gonnna keep going up?

zoombini · 01-04-2005, 12:24

up, up and away....

Dave Stones · 01-04-2005, 12:50

in my beautiful, my beautiful, motorboat.... dum dum dum dum