Yahoo or GMail?

[charliej66]

I've been using Yahoo! for quite a while, but after reading this thread I set up a Gmail account. I have to say I really like Gmail a lot.

 

[CellInnovation]

Gmail just does a lot of things right and doesn't get in the way. One of the most annoying features of the default Yahoo theme is it lists ALL the messages in your inbox on one page without giving you the option to display the messages on several pages. Thus, if you want to apply an operation, for instance delete a set of messages from a given timeframe, you have to select ALL the messages in your inbox or none at all and tick messages on or off one by one.... Very annoying! Even hotmail does a better job at this.

Also i find searching through your mail messages on Yahoo is essentially broken, doesn't give the results you'd expect.
It's little things like that that turn me off Yahoo.

 

[baseballkyle]

Gmail + PushMail is my setup and it works beautifully! Yahoo was simply unreliable and severely lacking in features (and it was Yahoo eh).

 

[pourme]

No!....never considered it!....

 

[Duvi]

No!....never considered it!....

 

[BENGRIMM]

I use both , but I like gmail the best . Less Spam , plus push is not that big of a deal .

 

[Watcher]

GMail sucks azz! Yahoo is the bomb!

I have UNLIMITED space with Yahoo. I've never seen anyone give that option. I'm also allowed to send emails up to 20MB. I have never seen that option either from a free email service! My Yahoo mail is pushed IMMEDIATELY to my iPhone 3G. I get the mail on my iPhone faster than my PC does!

And yes I have GMail but I don't use it. I have no need to until Google Wave comes out. Until then I'll be a chatting on Yahoo!

 

[Watcher]

Okay, are you serious? That's like asking, which would you rather have: a $10,000 dollar bill or a 50? piece.

Gmail is astronomically better than Yahoo.

I used Yahoo Mail for several years, and then in April of 2004 I switched to Gmail. It is superior in every way. There is no tradeoff.

1. Spam. In the past 5 years, I have received about 10 spam messages in my Inbox. Gmail has caught the rest. I've had exactly 1 message that was NOT spam, marked as spam. So ~11 messages incorrectly flagged in 5 years.

2. Storage. With Gmail, you don't ever delete your old emails. You just "Archive" it, and it gets sent into the "All Mail" folder. This folder has (you guessed it) all your mail. You don't have to worry about "Do I delete this to save space? What if I need this email later?" Gmail gives you tons of storage--so just archive it, then you have it in case you need it.

3. Search. Instead of sorting your emails into folders so you can browse to them more easily later, you just search. Gmail searches your email ridiculously fast.

Those 3 reasons you stated my Yahoo mail does except for archiving it in a separate folder, but it keeps ALL of my mail and never deletes it. I don't know which Yahoo service you were using that it supposedly sucks all that bad.

UPDATE: Dammit! I swear not even 2 hours after I write this I was telling my buddy that Sharing Contacts on the iPhone doesn't work via Email because it comes out on the other end as gibberish. He said, I've got GMail and mine came out fine just like an Outlook Contact. Apparently the way Yahoo mail sends it breaks up the .vcf attachment and sends it with all this code in it. Crap! Maybe I'll start also using my GMail!!!

 

[anon(153966)]

Priceless!

 

[Duvi]

Fix that quote Ivan. And yes, that is priceless! Hehe.

How's push Gmail working for you?

 

[JNGold]

I actually use both Yahoo and Gmail. I forward my Gmail to an Exchange account so that mail is pushed to me. So I get both push gmail and yahoo.

 

[anon(153966)]

I'm actually using my MobileME account now. I just extended my contract. I've forwarded my GMail to it, and using GMail's SMTP to reply to emails. It works perfectly...

Fix that quote Ivan. And yes, that is priceless! Hehe.

How's push Gmail working for you?

 

[Duvi]

I'm actually using my MobileME account now. I just extended my contract. I've forwarded my GMail to it, and using GMail's SMTP to reply to emails. It works perfectly...

You must teach me young padawan! (However you spell it... lol).

I haven't messed with the smtp stuff. Do you keep the copy on Gmail's server?

 

[anon(153966)]

...pm sent with step-by-step...

 

[Allyson Kazmucha]

I voted Gmail because it has a better setup than yahoo mail, but if you want e-mail instant, go with yahoo. if you can do with 15 minute intervals or more, go with gmail.

 

[Coffeeman]

Gpush is now active in the App store. Seems to work pretty well

 

[wsaund#IM]

I use comcast e-mail. Works on Iphone

 

[bkeaver]

it isnt working for me.. is it because I have push enabled for exchange?

Gpush is now active in the App store. Seems to work pretty well

 

[Duvi]

...pm sent with step-by-step...

Thank you sir.

 

[pilotnh]

Any word on whether or not Gmail will be going push on the iPhone without a 3rd party app?