I’m baffled. I’m receiving emails from family in my regular email and they open fine. However, (and I know you’ll wish you had this problem) even though my folder list says I’ve got four emails in my bulk mail, when I click on “bulk mail” it starts the action but then stops, says “done”, but never shows me the four emails…and the number just keeps increasing. It won’t show them to me!
I’m really only concerned because I’m making arrangements for my dad’s 80th birthday get-together and I’ve been corresponding with a restaurant manager whose emails go into my bulk mail.
I have, just like any G mail user, a whole heap of invites, ready and waiting to be used… just send me your Email addy..I’ll send you an invite..it works in strange and mysterious ways but once you get into Gmail there willl be no going back to that E mail stufff.
Ask any of the regulars around here..
Gmail is cool.
Well, I’ve done a review of gmail on their website and honestly I don’t see what the big deal is. So your email screen looks different. I have no need for major storage as I almost never save emails. In fact, it bothers me to know they’re sitting there. I delete them as quickly as I can. In the sample screen on their website it shows 3556 emails in the “spam” folder. That would drive me insane. I don’t want junk in there taking up space. It also says you don’t have to delete things. Why? What happens to emails you’re finished with? And it gets excited about being able to have everybody’s responses show up like a chat. MSN does that too.
I think my email usage is too simple for gmail. Plus I’d have to have a new address, right?
Could it be that the waiting emails are spam that you have blocked, and when you open the folder, your spamblocker software is erasing them? (assuming you have some sort of spamblocker software) (and a hat – you must have a red spamblocker software hat)
I haven’t used MSN mail in a while, but if I recall, there’s an option you can select to allow specific email addresses to go to the Inbox and/or a way to make sure specific addresses end up in the Junk folder. I’d suggest checking the ‘Options’ folder. Hope this helps.
I’m honestly thinking about deactivating all my gmail accounts, the reason is that everything you do there, every mail you get or send is stored at a central server to be reviewed by anyone who would get google to show them that information. I haven’t got anything to hide, but the idea of a “big brother” society really buggs me. Google stores all the information linked to your IP (everything can be traced back to you, that includes every keyword you ever searched for on google.com) and they have showed before that they willingly share that information with governments.
I’ve tried to get a Gmail account for months now, but they never send me my “text message”. Anywho, in MSN Mail, their is an option under Settings by the name of the “Safe List”. Just add those e-mail addresses you don’t want spammed, and everything should be fine.
Email in general is not much more secure than a postcard. Anybody with access to the server can read your email (well, they may have to gain access rights, but a determined individual can do it). Putting private or sensitive information in an email is not a good idea.
A while back I toyed with the idea of putting the text of an email in a Word Document, and password-protecting it. But that’s only any good if the recipient has the same version of Word as you do. Old versions just ignore the password feature completely. Thanks, Microsoft! And of course it’s no good for the Mac or Unix.
I’ve got my safe list in MSN and for the most part I wouldn’t worry about anything else going into the bulk mail, except for the occasional email that I don’t even realize is coming (for instance, an email from the gov. telling me my income tax submission had been accepted). I’ll give MSN customer support a call today and see what they say. It just bothers me–that number in the bulk mail slowly going higher (it’s at 9 now). Thanks for the ideas, though.
I’m interested, though, dubhlinn…why would I be amazed at gmail? I don’t store my emails and have no use for a search option. Specifically what is it that’s so great about it? The Wikipedia article about it says there are some problems with it–something along the lines of what Henke said and accounts being deactivated for no reason, etc. (Obviously there are problems with anything of this sort, hence the problem I’m having with MSN right now).
I’m not the most organised person on the planet so G mail is a great help to me in the way it stores a series of mails in sequence. I only have to scroll back the page to check a query or a request. Hotmail seems to be overcome with spam of late but G mail is very good at filtering out the spams and sending them to a spam folder which can be deleted with just one click.
I don’t have any problem with Google knowing that I am going for a pint on saturday night..
Yeah. But problems may arrise when you apply for some job which requires a clean background, and the government feels that a web search some years ago for bombs, or chemicals, or whatever makes you inappropriate. Or that you may have been subscribing, willingly or by mistake to a newsletter of some unfriendly organization, like Greenpeace.
These are just some of the problems I’m concerned about.
Paranoied, maybe, but these days, no one knows. Innocent people get accused of terrorism every day and get contained for years without trial, or even an explanation.
Whatever. I’m off to Thailand now. Talk to you all in a few weeks.
