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Gmail's UI is terrible. Where do people get the opinion that it's good? It's slow, nonintuitive, requires I click a button to see updates new emails on a thread
by feld 9y ago
Gmail's UI is terrible. Where do people get the opinion that it's good? It's slow, nonintuitive, requires I click a button to see updates new emails on a thread, the filtering/labels are terribly limited... I could go on
- tyingq 9y agoFast flexible searches and spam filters that work better than anything else I've tried. I put up with other issues for these two things. I don't use an offline client because I use a home desktop, phone, and work desktop that aren't the same os.
- bigbugbag 9y agoThat's because you have not tried the antispam solution that you have to pay for. To me gmail and its spam filter is a curse, I self host my own mail server and despite it being up to date to the latest recommended best practice, sometime for no apparent reason and for a limited period of time gmail will silently drop my legit emails into the spam folder of my recipient. I've grown to really dislike gmail for not caring about smaller servers who do their best to do it right.
- tyingq 9y agoI have heard people complain about false positives, but I check from time to time and don't see any. I am using the paid Gmail product, no idea if that makes it any different. I assume the volume they deal in would make a Bayesian filter more effective.
- feld 9y agoBut it's not the best spam filter
- tyingq 9y agoDon't leave us hanging.
- feld 9y agoEveryone I've moved to Fastmail has found its spam filtering to be superior. It was the first thing my wife noticed.
- tyingq 9y agoAh, ok. Thanks. It appears they use SpamAssasin under the covers. https://www.fastmail.com/help/technical/spamchecks.html https://www.fastmail.com/help/technical/spamchecks.html I may be not seeing issues as we spent a fair amount of time using the "report spam" and "not spam" buttons when we first signed up for Google Apps, so it's been trained to our use case. It works very well for us.
- feld 9y agoThey also have a very clever greylisting approach -- it compares against senders in your address book as one point of data which I've never seen done before because usually the spam filters I've run don't have access to that data and no open source greylist daemons do it to my knowledge
- dbg31415 9y agoGmail has keybindings for most actions I think. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gmail+keybindings&atb=v16&ia=cheatsheet https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gmail+keybindings&atb=v16&ia=cheat...