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So to all intents and purposes this is targeted, Google endorsed spam delivered directly to my inbox? If that's the case then it could be time to start looking

So to all intents and purposes this is targeted, Google endorsed spam delivered directly to my inbox? If that's the case then it could be time to start looking for a replacement for the last Google product I use.

icebraining 13y ago
It's in the "Promotions" tab, not the primary inbox. Personally, I think there are better reasons to leave Gmail (which is why I did so years ago).
- Tyrannosaurs 13y ago
  So if I've got rid of that (generally I have fewer than half a dozen e-mails in my inbox so tabs were pretty pointless for me) where do they appear? My assumption was in the regular inbox.
  - icebraining 13y ago
    Those are clearly "special" emails, so I don't think it can be safely assumed they would be processed the same way as normal emails - it would have to be tested. Personally, I think Google added the Promotions tab exactly because they knew they would get a major backlash against putting ads in the normal inbox.
    - amirmc 13y ago
      Interesting. That could mean that this is a stop-gap before ads appear in the main inbox for users who don't use tabs. I expect that would take years though as people would need to be conditioned to the current system first. In any case it feels like a slightly underhanded way to 'subscribe' you to 'mail' you didn't ask for. I use Gmail over IMAP so no of the web UI stuff they've done has affected me at all (in aggregate, I feel that's worked in my favour).
  - Shooti 13y ago
    They'd appear above the inbox just like they always did. The new promotion tab ads are essentially a new presentation style of what was always there.
- StavrosK 13y ago
  What's a good email provider? I have tens of domains I want to consolidate into a single inbox (and maybe send valid mail from), and Google Apps hasn't been doing a great job with that until now.
  - icebraining 13y ago
    I wouldn't know - I run my own server (exim + dovecot + alpine) on a VPS.
  - drostie 13y ago
    ZoHo might be able to do that for you, but I'm not sure -- they might separate it at the domain level. But I'd think mail forwarding for 10 inboxes shouldn't be a stretch for them.
- Dylan16807 13y ago
  Inbox is inbox.

icebraining 13y ago

It's in the "Promotions" tab, not the primary inbox. Personally, I think there are better reasons to leave Gmail (which is why I did so years ago).

Tyrannosaurs 13y ago
So if I've got rid of that (generally I have fewer than half a dozen e-mails in my inbox so tabs were pretty pointless for me) where do they appear? My assumption was in the regular inbox.
- icebraining 13y ago
  Those are clearly "special" emails, so I don't think it can be safely assumed they would be processed the same way as normal emails - it would have to be tested. Personally, I think Google added the Promotions tab exactly because they knew they would get a major backlash against putting ads in the normal inbox.
  - amirmc 13y ago
    Interesting. That could mean that this is a stop-gap before ads appear in the main inbox for users who don't use tabs. I expect that would take years though as people would need to be conditioned to the current system first. In any case it feels like a slightly underhanded way to 'subscribe' you to 'mail' you didn't ask for. I use Gmail over IMAP so no of the web UI stuff they've done has affected me at all (in aggregate, I feel that's worked in my favour).
- Shooti 13y ago
  They'd appear above the inbox just like they always did. The new promotion tab ads are essentially a new presentation style of what was always there.
StavrosK 13y ago
What's a good email provider? I have tens of domains I want to consolidate into a single inbox (and maybe send valid mail from), and Google Apps hasn't been doing a great job with that until now.
- icebraining 13y ago
  I wouldn't know - I run my own server (exim + dovecot + alpine) on a VPS.
- drostie 13y ago
  ZoHo might be able to do that for you, but I'm not sure -- they might separate it at the domain level. But I'd think mail forwarding for 10 inboxes shouldn't be a stretch for them.
Dylan16807 13y ago
Inbox is inbox.