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Curious to know which features you miss in GMail?

• jsz0 17y ago
  A few things: 1) Weak filtering/action rules. You can get pretty elaborate with Outlook or Mail. 2) Weak, non-real time, search. Have to wait for page reloads to resort things for example. 3) No mail preview plane. Lots of back & forth to the message list. 4) No easy way to backup your entire mail store 5) No way to change the number of lines previewed. I would prefer 4 or 5 versus a partial line after the sender/subject. 6) No saved searches or Smart Folder-ish functionality. Labels don't quite cover it for me. If these things exist they are dong a terrible job with the GUI because I can't find them.
  • pyre 17y ago
    6) No saved searches or Smart Folder-ish functionality. Labels don't quite cover it for me. How is that? Anything that you can construct a gmail search with can be used in a filter to 'tag' incoming emails. The only thing lacking is a way to 'filter' based on tags or to order the way that filters are processed. (i.e. you can't tag emails based on the other tags they are already tagged with, and even if you could it might not work since the filters for those tags might happen after the filter looking for them)
    • alextp 17y ago
      And there is a lab for saved searches
      • pyre 17y ago
        You might want to make that more clear, "There is a Google Labs option in Gmail for saved searches." My initial impression was that 'lab' was typo of 'label' before I realized what you meant.
    • jsz0 17y ago
      I don't think this would work for me. My saved searches are a bit too eccentric. I will try out the Google Labs deal.