I’ve been using GMail since its very early days when an invite to the beta was like gold dust. I switched over from Yahoo because GMail did a nice job with spam and the large mail box was nice to have. I used to use Hotmail back in the mid 90’s but I hated it. Lately I’ve noticed that emails disappear in GMail. I’ve no idea what it’s up to, maybe anti-spam on old mails and getting lots of false positives. The tagging mechanism cannot replace folders. Now I have lots of mail and lots of things to search for (books, projects, user groups, photography, etc) it’s getting harder to find what I’m after.
A new problem popped up today on another GMail account that I manage for a group. I was sending mail to joe.bloggs@gmail.com (not really but it’s a sample name). There was a typo with one letter so the address didn’t exist. I didn’t know that because I never got a failure report. What I did get was a response from an angry person who couldn’t speel. His address was joebloggs@gmail.com. I think I figured it out. GMail couldn’t find the mailbox that I was sending to so it dropped the “.” from the address. Why didn’t it just give me a failure report?
Hotmail or Live Mail has improved drastically. I use it for some personal stuff and for the Windows User Group. For the personal stuff it’s OK. The mail client is fine but I still prefer Outlook to connect to Live Mail. A real pain for the user group is the limitations Live Mail puts on us. We can only send a mail to 50 people at once. That counts as 50 mails and it appears we can only send 250 mails in one day. There’s plans afoot to sort out the user group. I guess that particular problem won’t affect most legitimate freE-mail users. And I guess I must be a bit unusual?!?! 🙂