Yahoo! vs. Hotmail

[SkyBell]

So, do you use Yahoo! as your main email provider? Have you been with them for a while? What major changes have they seen?

One thing I strongly dislike about Gmail is the fact that I can't create a new folder to store things in. I don't like having a cluttered inbox... extra folders are always really useful. This is one of the reasons why I use my Gmail account through my Mail app - so I can create those folders.

I've been using Yahoo! as my main email provider for three or four years now, I think. Major changes? About a year or so ago they went and completely redesigned the interface, made it an AJAX kind of thing. It looks a little too much like Outlook Express to me, I'm sticking with Yahoo! Mail Classic.

 

[BornAgainMac]

It depends on if I can choose the email name that I want. I got a simple email name that is basically my first letter of my first name and my last name. If I go switch to Yahoo, I have to put all kinds of weird numbers and random characters to have a email name. Since just about any variation of my name is used on Yahoo.

So the answer for me is Hotmail.

 

[OldCorpse]

One thing I strongly dislike about Gmail is the fact that I can't create a new folder to store things in. I don't like having a cluttered inbox... extra folders are always really useful. This is one of the reasons why I use my Gmail account through my Mail app - so I can create those folders.

But Gmail does have "folders". Look to your left side panel - the one that says "Labels". Now click on any of those labels - you just opened a "folder" with all the emails that have that label, no clutter at all. How is this different in ANY way from a folder? You must MOVE an email to a folder - in Gmail you APPLY a label to an email... one action in both cases. You can set it up that some emails go directly to a folder - in Gmail you can set it up so certain emails automatically get a label... equal. You don't have all folders open all the time - you open one folder at a time... in Gmail, same thing - you want to see every email in a given "folder" (i.e. with a given label), just click on that label in the side bar... side bar with folders in other systems... so again - equal. What exactly is different? Inbox? You can archive stuff in Gmail so it's not in the inbox - problem solved. Really, it's just a different way of thinking, but you can accomplish exactly the same thing - and IMHO, easier in Gmail. Oh, and btw. they recently introduced a ton of new ways to individualize labels. Way more flexible than folders IMHO.

On topic - yeah, I'm a Gmail fan, used it since early 2004. My favorite email service. I've used hotmail since before they were bought and murdered by Microsoft. Once Microsoft bought them, they went downhill. I've had that account hanging around gathering spam since forever, but in the last year or so, lost track of it, so I think it's gone. I hated what it became. Yahoo is better, but still nothing even close to Gmail. Oh, and I never use any email client - like Mail - I only ever do web-mail access online.

 

[SkyBell]

But Gmail does have "folders". Look to your left side panel - the one that says "Labels". Now click on any of those labels - you just opened a "folder" with all the emails that have that label, no clutter at all. How is this different in ANY way from a folder? You must MOVE an email to a folder - in Gmail you APPLY a label to an email... one action in both cases. You can set it up that some emails go directly to a folder - in Gmail you can set it up so certain emails automatically get a label... equal. You don't have all folders open all the time - you open one folder at a time... in Gmail, same thing - you want to see every email in a given "folder" (i.e. with a given label), just click on that label in the side bar... side bar with folders in other systems... so again - equal. What exactly is different? Inbox? You can archive stuff in Gmail so it's not in the inbox - problem solved. Really, it's just a different way of thinking, but you can accomplish exactly the same thing - and IMHO, easier in Gmail. Oh, and btw. they recently introduced a ton of new ways to individualize labels. Way more flexible than folders IMHO.

On topic - yeah, I'm a Gmail fan, used it since early 2004. My favorite email service. I've used hotmail since before they were bought and murdered by Microsoft. Once Microsoft bought them, they went downhill. I've had that account hanging around gathering spam since forever, but in the last year or so, lost track of it, so I think it's gone. I hated what it became. Yahoo is better, but still nothing even close to Gmail. Oh, and I never use any email client - like Mail - I only ever do web-mail access online.

I think that was a typo and she meant
"One thing I strongly dislike about Yahoo! is the fact that I can't create a new folder to store things in."

 

[TwinCities Dan]

I've been on Hotmail since '97 but I am thinking the mobile me might be worth a change...

I can't wait to try to update all my contacts

 

[klb028]

I think that was a typo and she meant
"One thing I strongly dislike about Yahoo! is the fact that I can't create a new folder to store things in."

No, I was referring to Gmail.

But Gmail does have "folders". Look to your left side panel - the one that says "Labels". Now click on any of those labels - you just opened a "folder" with all the emails that have that label, no clutter at all. How is this different in ANY way from a folder? You must MOVE an email to a folder - in Gmail you APPLY a label to an email... one action in both cases. You can set it up that some emails go directly to a folder - in Gmail you can set it up so certain emails automatically get a label... equal. You don't have all folders open all the time - you open one folder at a time... in Gmail, same thing - you want to see every email in a given "folder" (i.e. with a given label), just click on that label in the side bar... side bar with folders in other systems... so again - equal. What exactly is different? Inbox? You can archive stuff in Gmail so it's not in the inbox - problem solved. Really, it's just a different way of thinking, but you can accomplish exactly the same thing - and IMHO, easier in Gmail. Oh, and btw. they recently introduced a ton of new ways to individualize labels. Way more flexible than folders IMHO.

Not really looking for a label system, though. I know how it works... I just prefer separate folders to place certain emails in, not something where my inbox is color coded. That's all.

 

[OldCorpse]

Not really looking for a label system, though. I know how it works... I just prefer separate folders to place certain emails in, not something where my inbox is color coded. That's all.

I understand your point about the inbox, but emails you don't want to see in your inbox, you can always archive - so you are not seeing whatever email you don't want to see in the inbox (an action "archive" is required, but so is an action required "move to a folder", so no extra action is needed in one solution vs the other). Regarding the separate folders, I guess I just don't get how that's different from labels in any way whatsoever - in either case you have to click on a field in a column (collection of folders, or collection of labels) or a drop down menu... it's just that in one case what you click on is called a "folder", and in the other case a "label", but the result is exactly the same - you chose your folder or label from a list, and once you open the folder or label... there you have all the emails in that folder or with that label - absolutely ZERO difference as far as I can see, BWDIK<shrug>. No problem however, to each their own.