The most comprehensive review of Gmail

by **vivek** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 8:56 pm

In the next 10 hours, we would be presenting the most comprehensive review of a very different email service by the god of search engines, Google.com. The email service by Google.com called Gmail has been the talk of all active participants of the internet for the past 2 months. We would be incorporating several comments from other GMAIL users ( currently about 20 have joined) into a one know-all review with much in demand screen shots.

Watch this space for that!

Incase you are a GMail user of the current version and wish to share your comments. Send them to info@themavericks.net with 'Gmail review' as the subject.

Also, find the review in this space.

by **vivek** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 8:58 pm

To start with , The real factor that make Gmail has not been discussed properly at all. It has got buried under the whole storage debate.

Even if Gmail was offering 200MB, it still would be awsome. I have an account

by **rabbithole** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 9:22 pm

is'nt it still the beta version that's runnin now..wud like to c a couple of changes in the final version myself...

btw vivek bhai..if any one wants to comment on gmail let em post here...who is goin to take the pains to email it :roll:

by **vivek** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 9:37 pm

Emailing has never been pain. Comments can be posted here. What i was requesting was some sort of pre-review comments that i can include in my review which eventually i will post here! Comments to my review will be more useful.

It is in beta and i have noted some minor bugs. Mails reach late would be first. Java deables browsers fail to load the email inbox.

There are more, which i shall make available.

by **vivek** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 9:37 pm

A little de-tour. I hear that Gmail invites are being sold by those who can invite for as high as $20!

by **rabbithole** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 9:44 pm

i've notices a couple of things..

i sent my self an email with some attachments i needed to store..gmail automatically stores all the sent mail.it doesnt have an option to stop saving sent mail :roll:

..'nywaz i had 2 copies of attachments..one in sent folder and one in inbox...i delete one the other gets deleted auto

:roll:

the other thing is with the contacts list..i cant insert more then 1 contact address into the 'to' box :roll:

.....prolly doin somethin wrong ther..i donno

by **rabbithole** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 9:47 pm

vivek wrote:A little de-tour. I hear that Gmail invites are being sold by those who can invite for as high as $20!

naa iam not sure if its that high...its around 1-2$ per invite in ebay

http://search.ebay.com/gmail_W0QQsokeyw ... 1QQfromZR8

by **azazel** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 10:35 pm

signed up for it recently.. havent really used it as much as i would've liked.. love my rediff a/c :twisted:

by **akhilis2cool** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 10:13 am

azazel wrote:signed up for it recently.. havent really used it as much as i would've liked.. love my rediff a/c

mere paas bhi rediff ka i gb acc hai. but use yahoo and indiatimes more.

i want to know when will gmail b free for all.

by **CtrlAltDel** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 10:18 am

i have accounts in yahoo, rediff, hotmail, but my main account is in Mail.Com n me very happy with it...best feature of it is the wide choice of extensions for yr emailID. ie u can choose from a list what comes after the "@" in yr emailID. ex: <yr ID>@<yr choice>.com

u get many funny choices too...

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by **vivek** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 12:02 pm

anyway..ihave got7more review fromGmail users... iamnot sure if you guys are one ofthem..i will provide the review with screen shots in a days time. Its just that i want to wait for a day more and add more user comments.

as far as adding more thanone receipient in the 'to' space..you can.

by **The Rainmaker** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 1:08 pm

GMAIL invites are being sold for less than a dollar nowadays... coz its so common. I got my own invite for Free three weeks back.

Hotmail will be offering 250 MB soon.. and Yahoo has 100 MB now. I don't see many people shifting to Gmail because currently they dont support inline graphics (used for forwards) and antivirus scanning.

by **vivek** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 5:25 pm

some one named abhishek arora posted this in my website and cp here. check is this is true?

i just learnt that hotmail and yahoo have been blocking or trying to block gmail invites. They have changed their system in such a way that invites arrive late in your yahoo or hotmail mail box.

that sucks because when you get an invite and then you find that it is invalid, there is no usue getting angry and envious at your friend.

by **rock_26iin** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 5:26 pm

vivek wrote:i just learnt that hotmail and yahoo have been blocking or trying to block gmail invites. They have changed their system in such a way that invites arrive late in your yahoo or hotmail mail box.

They shud b sued 4 that

by **vivek** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 6:47 pm

this allegation is not confirmed

by **rabbithole** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 7:29 pm

i got ma invite a week bak..into yahoo...all that happens is that the invite goes into the bulk mail folder...i dont think yohoo n hotmail wud block invites....thats too obvious and wat wud they do once google make it free for all! that for me is the rumor of th day

by **Habitual Perfectionist** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 1:36 am

East or west...YAHOO is the best.

And more so after the 100MB account. Their mail management is wonderful. I still don't know whats gonna happen to attachments in my old mails. Lost quite a good deal on indiatimes and rediff. The attachments just wouldn't open.

by **vivek** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 3:56 pm

THE REVIEW

Few months ago the general perception of email as a communication medium for text and picture messages was shattered when google.com, the most visited search engine in the world as on date announced the launch of GMail. Google.com’s very own email service offering a whooping 1Giga Byte of storage space literally eliminating the need to delete mails. Google had by now issued an alarm to other popular email service vendors like Yahoo!, MSN-Hotmail and Lycos.

Google.com’s strategy of launching an email service had a valid reason. According to official sources from Google.com, email is one of the strongest reasons for people to re-visit a website. By launching GMail, Google expects users of the email service to return more often then they normally do. Google.com is presently running GMail as a Beta test version. Only a chosen few have been given the privilege to test the services in its present state. A GMail Beta user gets to invite others periodically as and when a significant change in GMail is performed.

Here we have summarized the views and opinions of 17 GMail users who have been using the service as their primary email ID. These 17 users have been using GMail for the past 45 days with an average of 10 mails sent everyday.

Before we get into the actual review, we would like highlight that GMail does not load in IE versions of 5.5 and below. This is a vital feature which the GMail developers need to address.

GMail can be accessed from gmail.com which eventually lands at gmail.google.com. Unlike mail.yahoo.com, the log-in boxes in the GMail page take a while to appear. If you have Java disabled in your browser, the boxes don’t appear at all. After you log-in GMail using your username and password, the browser takes you through a secure connection (https), just like hotmail. The page then loads for a while before the inbox appears.

In GMail the whole package of Inbox, folder options, compose,sent mail load as a single component. In the sense, when you click on ‘compose’ the page does not reload. Its just appears in an instant. Just like tabs. Either the whole component loads or nothing appears. The ‘tab’ type of interface has been used to allow keyboard short cuts. So, we can hit the ‘C’ key in our key board and the compose window appears. Yahoo! Mail has been providing a more complex version of keyboard shortcuts for over a year now.

You can find the full version with screen shots at

http://themavericks.net/content/view/292/2/

Do add your comments in this fullhyd forum.

by **vivek** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 7:28 pm

Guys,

I am willing to spare one GMail invite to the person who would write the best review of GMail in comparison to the other popular email services. Send me your version of review (preferably with screenshots) containing features offered by Hotmail,Yahoo,Lycos in comparison to those offered by GMail.

try to highlight the bugs that you have detected while using GMail.

I promise to send a GMail invite to the person of choice when i get the right to invite

by **The Rainmaker** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 7:58 pm

hey vivek, how can somebody who does not have a gmail account, review it?

anyway gmail isnt such a great deal. its alright... the best feature is its Speed. i can spare one invite for a fullhyd user who really really wants it

by **The Rainmaker** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 8:00 pm

vivek wrote:i just learnt that hotmail and yahoo have been blocking or trying to block gmail invites. They have changed their system in such a way that invites arrive late in your yahoo or hotmail mail box.

thats not at all true. i received my own invite on my hotmail account... it arrived in seconds!

and i sent out 2-3 invites to my friends on hotmail accounts, they got it Instantly as well!! :roll:

by **vivek** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 11:16 am

The Rainmaker wrote:hey vivek, how can somebody who does not have a gmail account, review it?

anyway gmail isnt such a great deal. its alright... the best feature is its Speed. i can spare one invite for a fullhyd user who really really wants it

That does not matter. you may review based on your friend's account. Or if you have a GMail account, you can review it yourself and in return i will spare one invite to the person of the reviewer's choice as and when i get to invite.

by **vivek** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 11:21 am

The Rainmaker wrote:
vivek wrote:i just learnt that hotmail and yahoo have been blocking or trying to block gmail invites. They have changed their system in such a way that invites arrive late in your yahoo or hotmail mail box.

thats not at all true. i received my own invite on my hotmail account... it arrived in seconds!
and i sent out 2-3 invites to my friends on hotmail accounts, they got it Instantly as well!!

Even the review i had stated that some (not all) of the Gmail users that we consulted said that the invites sent to certain hotmail users landed in junk mail folder.

by **vivek** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 10:55 am

thanks guys i got 4 more reviews. I will preserve it for the next time

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