Gmail

[damo666]

Hi, anyone know anything about Gmail? I read that it was very good. Can it not be used in the uk? There seems to be a list of countries with no uk
Thanks, Damo

[camioneur]

it's great, reliable free, works in UK fine and I wouldn't be without it now.

You'll need an invite though to join, if you post your email address on here I'll send you one if you like!

[The Cowboy]

I've been using it for months and I can also give you an invite if you wish.

Cowboy.

[Hammer]

Same here, it's fine in the UK. Post your email address and you'll probably get 3 invites!

[ugly_bob]

in what ways is it better than yahoo, for example?

[fo3nix]

ugly_bob: you just have to try it out to see really. The interface is wonderfully simple. The spam filter tends to work well (for a web-based email system anyway). I currently have 2739MB of storage, growing each day. There are no annoying large adverts. If you use other email addresses you can set them up with gmail so that you can send and receive them all using gmail.

Two things that really set it apart from pretty much everything else though is the 'conversation' ordering system of emails. Instead of having your email here and a reply as a separate email with "RE:" in the subject, you just click your email and it'll show both at the same time in a 'conversation' sort of style.

Finally, the search is excellent. Far better than anything else in web-based email. And the labelling system is also great. Better than making a load of folders.

damo666: It does work fine in the UK, but you can no longer have the @gmail domain. Instead you get the @googlemail domain. The service itself though is entirely the same.

[kepla]

A few weeks ago, another company who already had 'Gmail' registered under some sort of copyright or trademark in the UK stopped Google from being allowed to issue any new 'gmail' accounts in this country. So, if you've already got one then you're priviledged ! When you respond to a 'gmail' invite, what you are now given is a 'googlemail' address instead of a 'gmail' address. There's quite a few advantages to gmail over most other providers, but they've been covered already.

[Hammer]

One more is that you don't delete old mails, you archive them, so you can always search and find them if you need to.

[damo666]

Sounds really good. My email address is [email protected] if you dont mind sending me an invite
Thanks, Damo

[benmooe]

if you want an invite please email me at [email protected] and i will hook you up with one (at the moment i have 99)