Alternative to Gmail

nutcase · 25 Jan 2015 at 08:29

What winds me up the most about gmail is how they merge email chains together on their apps, and it also seems to lose sent items a lot (no I don't delete them).

Deleted member 77746 · 25 Jan 2015 at 08:42

Chimp Paradox said:
Can anyone suggest a decent webmail service? Need to create a sensible email address for a job app.

Thanks!

The only sensible professional way is make your own, however as long as you don't have something silly like [email protected] it should be alright.

Stop been a bitch.

Skeeter · 25 Jan 2015 at 09:50

anticonscience said:
When you say they hate Gmail is that just because they don't really understand how it works? Or are there genuine issues as to why they don't like it?

They shifted an entire organisation of healthcare professionals (read non IT savey people) from a perfectly working Outlook/Exchange system to Google Apps. A mass of shared calendars for staff and resources and a pile of joint or deligated inboxs weren't migrated and it's not intuitive for a non techy to try and set it all up again.

I've no idea if Google Apps even does resources calendars for stuff like meeting rooms in the way Exchange does?

mrochester · 25 Jan 2015 at 09:57

Outlook.com. I don't really know of many people using Gmail these days.

soundb0y · 25 Jan 2015 at 10:43

Op is John Smith

Juicy_vessel · 25 Jan 2015 at 17:38

Gmail to me is faultless. Seems the industry atandard these days. What's not to like?

I don't take anything else as serious.

mrochester · 25 Jan 2015 at 17:39

Juicy_vessel said:
Gmail to me is faultless. Seems the industry atandard these days. What's not to like?

I dont take anything else as serious.

The company who runs it is the biggest problem.

AJK · 25 Jan 2015 at 17:40

mrochester said:
The company who runs it is the biggest problem.

Why?

mrochester · 25 Jan 2015 at 17:41

AJK said:
Why?

Disagree with the business model.

pepp77 · 25 Jan 2015 at 17:42

Could try GMX.com

twist3d0n3 · 25 Jan 2015 at 17:42

guerrillamail

AJK · 25 Jan 2015 at 17:47

mrochester said:
Disagree with the business model.

So no actual functional problem, you just don't happen to like Google? Or is it ad-supported products?

Skeeter · 25 Jan 2015 at 17:49

mrochester said:
Disagree with the business model.

Giving consumers loads of services for free?

mrochester · 25 Jan 2015 at 17:50

AJK said:
So no actual functional problem, you just don't happen to like Google? Or is it ad-supported products?

I dislike companies that sell advertising space as I dislike the coercive and deceptive nature of advertising, and these companies perpetuate that. Sadly, it's not possible to get away from advertising entirely.

Skeeter · 25 Jan 2015 at 17:51

mrochester said:
I dislike companies that sell advertising space as I dislike the coercive and deceptive nature of advertising, and these companies perpetuate that. Sadly, it's not possible to get away from advertising entirely.

So you would rather pay for eveything?

mrochester · 25 Jan 2015 at 17:53

Skeeter said:
So you would rather pay for eveything?

Yep, I'd rather that there were a clear exchange of goods and services for money.

dowie · 25 Jan 2015 at 17:56

crinkleshoes said:
Outlook web is still better than gmail for work-related-use, in my opinion, let alone full-featured outlook.

just use outlook with gmail then surely?

Edward78 · 25 Jan 2015 at 18:03

Skeeter said:
Gmail had the upper hand while it was free, but now its paid Office 365 is a decent rival. Although Outlook web is still a pile of ****.

Paid, you are crazy gmail is free....

Skeeter · 25 Jan 2015 at 18:06

mrochester said:
Yep, I'd rather that there were a clear exchange of goods and services for money.

I think you'd be quite surprised (and poor) if you had to pay for eveything subsidised by advertising outright instead.

You'd be paying (likely multiple people) to post in this thread for starters.

Skeeter · 25 Jan 2015 at 18:09

Edward78 said:
Paid, you are crazy gmail is free....

Google Apps isn't, the service where you add your own domain and manage it through Google.

Until a few years ago it was free for personal use, but now its all paid (£3.30 per user per month).