I keep my inbox pretty clean,
and Gmail does an excellent job at prevent spam from even reaching it. That’s
why I was stunned about a half-hour ago to discover that suddenly, Outlook was
downloading over 1,000 new messages that fortunately were then being routed to
my spam folder.
What was going on? I did a quick search and discovered [...]
A few years ago, I remember having like 400 email messages in my inbox and
feeling completely overwhelmed. I wanted to get through them all but then did
the math. If I spent only one minute answering each email, that was going to
take an entire day. And more would come in, plus I knew many of them [...]
About two weeks ago, I dived in to merge two years worth of mail from one
Gmail account to my existing Google Apps
mail account. I wanted to cover how it went and how it caused me inadvertently
to abandon my cherished desktop client, Outlook, for two weeks. No, it didn’t
make me a web-based email convert. But perhaps [...]
I’ve had a Gmail
account since the day they were first offered, back in April 2004.
Then at the end of 2006, I opened up a new Google-hosted
mail account under my own domain name using
Google Apps, which I
highly recommend. It provided me with all the great archiving and spam filtering
that made me move to Gmail, plus it [...]
For whatever reason, I couldn’t get some of my messages from Outlook to
actually send through Gmail this weekend. I went through the
various things I’ve
tried when this has happened in the past and settled on the
solution of
deleting my Gmail account settings and entering them anew into Outlook. When I went to get
the right settings from Gmail [...]
For some reason, every few days I’m suddenly unable to send email from
Outlook 2003 via my Gmail account. This has gone on for the past several months.
Sometimes I can resolve it by restarting Outlook. Usually, I can only solve it
by entirely rebooting my computer. That’s a pain, but rebooting has given me a
hint to the [...]
I posted
over at the SEW Blog today about Gmail going down yet again for me, not allowing
me to POP download. Just out of the blue, suddenly I was given username and
password errors as I’ve had before.
Usually, I’ve been able to correct these errors in various ways, as I’ve
covered in these past posts:
Gmail, Can I Have [...]
So much to do, so much to write — and major hassle factor as Gmail holds my
email hostage, pretending my username and password isn’t valid.
OK, I can get in via the web. I can send mail via SMTP. But if I want to POP
download, that’s not happening. That hasn’t been happening for at least 5 [...]
I’ve written before that I wish Gmail would
allow you to build better
blacklists, sort your inbox
alphabetically, see more than
100 results at a time or nab
non-English mail from hitting my inbox, all as ways to stop spam. On the "a
picture’s worth a thousand words" front, here’s a visual illustration of why
all that would be helpful:
Earlier, I wrote about
Gmail’s bogus "Custom From" system that doesn’t hide your Gmail address even if
you tell Gmail you want another email address to show. I got an email from
someone similarly irked by it, telling me that there’s now a petition to ask
Google to fix this. Would I sign? Sure. I’m now signatory number two. [...]