Right. From the looks of it that is not true; when Gmail came out and I got an invite, I started by 'importing' all my mail and using it as I was using my own m

Right. From the looks of it that is not true; when Gmail came out and I got an invite, I started by 'importing' all my mail and using it as I was using my own mail server; back then my life was my mailbox and I received 10000 messages a day in folders like spam, server telemetry and so on. Gmail promised scalability and good spam control and 'never delete mail'. I did just that; over the years I have worked with Google engineers to make Gmail better as my particular inbox clogged up stuff regularly especially after the public at large got Gmail. Now it works perfectly and nothing else seems to work for me as it all just dies. But this was a feature and use case for Gmail; not for these guys it seems. Which is fine by the way. Different use case.