Managing email subscriptions and filtering spam, Using tabs to filter and prioritize incoming messages, Using a custom domain address for a veneer of professionalism
It's a powerful, free hub for online life, but trust issues with privacy, filtering, and account lockouts are significant risks.
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Google spam filter is not unique or magical. And I never liked Gmail the client. It always gets in my way and does things in weird Googly ways.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Email client and spam filtering
what we've built is _much_ faster than Mail.app, let alone Gmail.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Email client
I am able to mark an email as an issue, start it, complete it and see details about it, all within Gmail and synced with Linear.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: as the interface for managing emails/issues synced with Linear
An old gmail account being noisy is probably more a function of it being old than it being a gmail account. I suspect he d see a great improvement just starting a new email address.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Email service
I have the gmail app set to only notify me for important messages, and it pretty reliably doesn't trigger a notification for this junk.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Email filtering and notification management
A lot of these folks are happily using [email protected] and so-on, but decide to get their own domain for the added veneer of professionalism.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Business email for small businesses using a custom domain via a generic Gmail address.
On the other hand, they are not in privacy abusing position that Gmail is, and I also don't have to worry that they will close my account with no recourse, as Gmail once did to me.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: General email service and account reliability.
People use Gmail because they legitimately want to filter out the unsolicited spam, marketing, etc.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Filtering out unsolicited spam and marketing emails
I use Gmail. But if it disappeared, there are a million other email providers. It would be an inconvenience for the few places that I use Gmail for.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Primary email service
We are just switching back from mailbox.org to Google.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Email and cloud services (implied by switching back to it)
Google just let through an email spoofed from my own domain (via a mailgun server). It was a phishing attack about the domain being shut down.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Email spam and phishing filtering
Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Email spam filtering
Well, I got most of the Zendesk inbox-bombing emails into SPAM in Gmail. All support[at] company .zendesk.com were flagged, none of them reached the Inbox.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Filtering spam emails
But since the Google Domains Squarespace disaster, the gmail spam filter has lost the plot - it will occasionally spam filter of her from-gmail emails mid thread . I am certain I have missed critical emails because of this, so trust is gone.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Personal email service
I have Gmail where a lot of my online life is reflected.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Email and central hub for online life
ditto for Gmail... People I do want to have my data, are afraid to touch it, and use it - yes! - for theirs, but also for my benefit too.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Expecting it to know and utilize their home address
occasionally they poke at their successful products and googllify them too... Gmail with Gemini
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Email with Gemini integration
You can only click page by page and only know the end is near when you know when the results get close to your account creation date. It s been this stupid annoying way since day 1 of gmail.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Searching and navigating through email results
Gmail also recently added the option to surface your subscriptions and unsubscribe. Gmail added the various email categories too.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Managing email subscriptions and categorizing emails
I already lost my first gmail account from like 2003... I m stuck in a verification loop that emails a yahoo email that no longer exists. Impossible to get a real person to look at it.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Primary email account for identity-linked services (banking, taxes, etc.) and account recovery.
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